Fcc Quotes

• There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

  Montel Williams

  Educational, Media, Television

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.

  Fred Upton

  Law, Teeth, Needs

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• Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

  Doug Ose

  Determination, Two, Community

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• When they dumped all these people out of the insane asylums they didn't all go sleep in the street. Some of them moved into suburbia, and started writing postcards to the FCC.

  Frank Zappa

  Sleep, Writing, People

  Source: afka.net

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• The FCC extorts broadcasters by threatening to take away their licenses for infringements which are usually the result of complaints from an extreme, right wing, tiny bunch of individuals.

  Frank Zappa

  Wings, Tiny, Threatening

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• For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

  Mary Bono

  Years, Asking, Republican

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• Newt Gingrich said that this executive producer is weird and it raises - does raise questions about possible conflicts. The FCC regulates NBC corporations can try to curry favor with the president by placing their products on the show [Celebrity Apprentice].

  George Stephanopoulos

  Nbc, Raises Questions, Trying

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed for a lifetime but can be overruled. Then Court of Appeals judges. They're not the highest level, but they're almost the final word. And then, of course, the Supreme Court.

  Russ Feingold

  Years, People, Judging

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. May 2002.

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• The FCC is considering lifting the ban on cellphone calls on planes. The good news is you'll be able to make calls during your flight. The bad news? The person sitting next to you will be able to make cellphone calls during yourflight.

  Jay Leno

  News, Sitting, Able

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• Michael J. Copps, acting FCC chairman, has denounced the lack of racial and gender diversity in the broadcast industry as 'a shameful state of affairs.' Unsurprisingly, his proposed corrective is to force the transfer of station ownership to greater numbers of minorities, who are statistically more likely to carry liberal talk shows.

  David Limbaugh

  Numbers, Diversity, Acting

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• Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think.

  Paul Boutin

  Thinking, Phones, Microsoft

  "Multicast or Bust" by Paul Boutin, www.wired.com. June 25, 1997.

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• The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.

  Reed Hundt

  Justice, Competition, Auctions

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• [With R-rated movie] you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Thinking, Self, Doe

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I'm the crazy one? This country has gone insane. Read about it. FCC orders NBC newsrooms to partner with Soros funded non-profits. That's how the deal went through.

  Glenn Beck

  Country, Crazy, Nbc

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• The FCC has delayed the decision on the Time/Warner Comcast merger. So how do you think those folks like being put on hold?

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Decision, Mergers

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• We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.

  Emma Caulfield

  Mean, Worry, Creative

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• The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

  Eric Schmidt

  Issues, Google, Messy

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