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ERIC Number: ED145497
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1974-Aug
Pages: 44
Abstractor: N/A
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Access is Fairness: A Petition for Reconsideration of the Federal Communications Commission's Fairness Report, F.C.C. Docket No. 19260. Summary.
Jacklin, Phil; And Others
This petition, submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), proposes an "adequate access policy" that would enable broadcasters to comply with the FCC's Fairness Doctrine. Following this policy, broadcasters would provide individuals with free public access time in the form of "free-speech messages"--one-minute, on-the-air spots repeated at various times throughout the week. The advantages of an adequate access policy are that it would remove the FCC from program-content regulation, it would free broadcast journalists from real or imagined inhibitions of the existing Fairness Doctrine, it would stimulate the initial airing of controversial programming, and it would provide contrasting, balanced views on issues already broadcast. A list of topics of free-speech messages that have been broadcast in San Francisco is attached. (RL)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Authoring Institution: Citizens Communication Center for Responsive Media, Washington, DC.
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