Regulating Broadcast Programming (Aei Studies in Telecommunications Deregulation) - Hardcover

Krattenmaker, Thomas G. And Lucas A. Powe, Jr.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262111950 ISBN 13: 9780262111959

Publisher: Mit Pr, 1995

Synopsis

"Broadcast content regulation has failed miserably, and will continue to fail," claim the authors of "Regulating Broadcast Programming", in their comprehensive review of past and present efforts to regulate the content of radio and television. They argue that such regulation should be based on the same principles used for print media, where control of editorial content lies in private hands instead of the government. Access - the ability to reach the willing recipient by the communicator willing to pay the costs - should not be controlled by a third party. In a gradually unfolding analysis, Krattenmaker and Powe look at the wide variety of constitutional, historical, economic and common sense issues that content control generates. Chapter one, covering the period from 1912 to the early 1940s, explains the origins of US federal regulation of the broadcast industry and why some regulatory strategies were adopted and others discarded. Chapter two explains how normative economic theory might portray the appropriate role for governmental regulation of a peculiar type of product called a "public good." The four chapters that follow review the principal content regulations - regulations designed to expand programme choices and those designed to excise certain types of programmes - and the statutory and constitutional standards under which broadcast licensees operate. The final four chapters provide an extensive and detailed critical analysis of broadcast content regulation, culminating in the authors' proposal for reinventing broadcast regulation. In the concluding chapter they outline a radically different set of legal and regulatory policies and principles for regulating broadcast programme content. These are the rules used for governing all other mass media in the United States.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas G. Krattenmaker is Dean of the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William & Mary. Lucas A. Powe, Jr., is Anne Green Regents Chair and Professor of Law and Government at The University of Texas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0262111950
• ISBN 13: 9780262111959
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 387