The FCC and Regulating Indecency

The FCC and Regulating Indecency
Author: Paul Ruschmann
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2009
Genre: Current events
ISBN: 1438106238

Examines the government's increasing attempts to control the airwaves to maintain a standard of decency.

Broadcast Indecency

Broadcast Indecency
Author: Jeremy H. Lipschultz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1003820018

Broadcast Indecency (1997) treats broadcast indecency as more than a simple regulatory problem in American law. The author’s approach cuts across legal, social and economic concerns, taking the view that media law and regulation cannot be seen within a vacuum that ignores cultural realities. It treats broadcast as a phenomenon challenging the policy approach of government regulation, and is an exploration of the political and social processes involved in the government control of mass media content.

Broadcast Indecency

Broadcast Indecency
Author: Jeremy Harris Lipschultz
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1997
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Discussing such controversial issues as 'shock jock' Howard Stern, this book treats broadcast indecency as more than a simple regulatory problem in American law. The author's approach cuts across legal, social, and economic concerns taking the view that media law and regulation cannot be seen within a vacuum that ignores cultural realities. This cutting-edge book treats broadcast indecency as a social phenomenon challenging the policy approach of government regulation. It is an exploration of the political and social processes involved in the government control of mass media content. The author, using F.C.C. documents and other sources, studies the complex issue of broadcast indecency and its impact on the mass media and the public. He also challenges assumptions and attempts to place content issues within an international context and to project the future of regulation while offering practical advice to broadcast managers on how to deal with today's broadcast indecency issues. Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Ph.D., is a former radio news director. He is currently an associate professor of communication and Graduate Program Chair in the Department of Communication, University of Nebraska at Omaha. He holds a Ph.D. in journalism from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and has been active in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

BROADCASTING, THE FCC, AND PROGRAMMING REGULATION

BROADCASTING, THE FCC, AND PROGRAMMING REGULATION
Author: David Weinert
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

The U.S. Supreme Court, in June 2012, left broadcasters in a holding pattern by dodging the longstanding question of whether the Federal Communications Commissions broadcast indecency policy can survive constitutional scrutiny today given the vastly changed media landscape. The high courts narrow ruling in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. exonerated broadcasters for the specific on-air improprieties that brought the case to its attention, but did little to resolve the larger and more salient issue of whether such content regulations have become archaic. As a result, the Commission continues to police the broadcast airwaves, recently sanctioning a Roanoke, Virginia television station $325,000 for alleged broadcast indecency. This dissertation yields an in-depth analysis and synthesis of the legal obstacles the FCC will encounter in attempting to establish any revamped policy governing broadcast indecency. It discusses the insuperable First Amendment considerations that will trouble the Commission in its efforts, including the current exceptions that swallow the rationale for the regulations and the dramatically changed media landscape that render them unsuccessful.

Anti-indecency Groups and the Federal Communications Commission

Anti-indecency Groups and the Federal Communications Commission
Author: Kimberly Zarkin
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

By examining the activities of Morality in Media and the American Family Association as related to the FCC, this work provides a clear picture of whether these groups have had any impact on the policy-making process.

Broadcast and Internet Indecency

Broadcast and Internet Indecency
Author: Jeremy Lipschultz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2008-02-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135596271

Indecency--arguably among the most provocative and incendiary issues in today's media--is speech at the edge of social tolerance. This timely volume examines broadcast and Internet indecency from legal and social perspectives, utilizing current cases and well-publicized examples. In exploring the issues associated with this highly controversial area, author Jeremy Harris Lipschultz makes headway toward an understanding of how indecency, as communication on the fringes of social norms, functions in defining free expression through specific types of speech. He contrasts conceptualizations of indecency and obscenity, synthesizes case law and social research, and develops theoretical generalizations for future research and study. His work provides a comprehensive examination of broadcast and Internet indecency issues and cases that serve to test generalizations about freedom of expression and one's ability to define free speech.

First Report

First Report
Author: Lili Levi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN:

This First Report, a document prepared at the request of the First Amendment Center, is an account of the FCC's recent shifts in its approach to the regulation of indecency on the broadcast medium. Principally designed to be descriptive and geared to policy-making as well as legal audiences, the Report carefully maps both the procedural and substantive changes in the FCC's indecency enforcement process. In addition, the Report addresses the First Amendment issues raised by the Commission's actions and inquires whether the agency's aggressive enforcement of its indecency rules can viably be extended both to non-broadcast electronic media (such as cable) and to violent programming on the air.