Article Title
Communications Media and the First Amendment: A Viewpoint-Neutral FCC Is Not Too Much to Ask For
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2000
Publication Citation
53 Federal Communications Law Journal 5 (2000)
Abstract
In the "new economy" driven by the telecommunications industry, the FCC is a busy agency. Given the myriad legal issues faced daily by agency decisionmakers and the lack of perfect clarity in major communications legislation, a few legal missteps here and there by the FCC might be expected. In one area, however, the public can and should demand a first-rate agency record: regulation of communications media without regard to the viewpoint expressed via that media, as the First Amendment requires. This Article offers two case studies in which the FCC arguably took viewpoint-discriminatory actions with regard to regulated broadcasters, and suggests means by which the FCC may avoid drawing such distinctions in the future.
Recommended Citation
Walker, Helgi
(2000)
"Communications Media and the First Amendment: A Viewpoint-Neutral FCC Is Not Too Much to Ask For,"
Federal Communications Law Journal: Vol. 53:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/fclj/vol53/iss1/3