All Posts Tagged With: "FCC"

A Manifesto for Media Freedom

Americans are blessed with access to an unprecedented variety of media–not to mention ways in which information can be stored and the points of view and ownership interests represented.
As documented in the brisk book A Manifesto for Media Freedom, this cornucopia of media options has led not to celebration of the marvelous diversity that free [...]

23Sep2009 | Brian Doherty | 0 comments | Continued

Whose Airwaves Are They?

The heat is being turned up on radio stations for broadcasting indecent material. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Clear Channel Communications nearly half a million dollars for broadcasting several minutes of lewd remarks by radio star Howard Stern back in April. Clear Channel has since stopped carrying the program on its six stations. [...]

1Jul2004 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

Telecom Regulations Don’t Create Competitive Markets

Lawrence Reed is president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market research and educational organization in Midland, Michigan. The author would like to thank Diane Katz, director of science, environment, and technology policy at the Mackinac Center, for her assistance in the preparation of this column.
Few of us would understand the jargon employed [...]

1May2004 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued

Frankenstein Television

The televisions that Americans have loved for over 50 years will soon become obsolete. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mandated that the analog TV broadcast signals be turned off in 2006. After that date all TV broadcasts will be “digital.”
This mandate appears to be at odds with the wishes of the American people. In [...]

1Feb2003 | Michael Heberling | 5 comments | Continued

Regulatory Extortion

Thomas DiLorenzo is a professor of economics at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. This article is based on a presentation prepared for the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s conference, “Austrian Economics and the Financial Markets,” last September in Toronto.
In 1978 Michael Jensen and William Meckling, writing in the Financial Analysts Journal, offered an extraordinarily gloomy prediction [...]

1Mar2000 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 0 comments | Continued