http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-10-14T04:16:04-05:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/622.html 2007-06-28T14:48:00-05:00 2007-06-28T14:48:00-05:00 SmartMediaToday It's no secret that Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) would like to see the Fairness Doctrine brought back to life, requiring that views expressed over America's airwaves http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/610.html 2007-06-27T14:28:08-05:00 2007-06-27T14:28:08-05:00 SmartMediaToday Many thanks to the many alert readers who pointed out that Larry Craig is an alert senator. That's Larry Craig (R-ID). We regret referencing his http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/599.html 2007-06-27T14:17:07-05:00 2007-06-27T14:17:07-05:00 SmartMediaToday At the Commerce Committee hearing on media violence, Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe submitted his written testimony for the record and then ignored the practice http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/598.html 2007-06-27T14:16:19-05:00 2007-06-27T14:16:19-05:00 SmartMediaToday FCC Chairman Kevin Martin was unable to make the Commerce Committee hearing on media violence due to a family emergency. That left a gaping hole http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/597.html 2007-06-27T14:15:04-05:00 2007-06-27T14:15:04-05:00 SmartMediaToday Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) briefly paid tribute to retired Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-SC) as he carried forward the baton in the crusade against media violence. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/584.html 2007-06-26T13:21:37-05:00 2007-06-26T13:21:37-05:00 SmartMediaToday The seat of the late Larry Craig (R-WY) has been filled by a Democratic governor with a Republican, due to an unusual law in Craig's http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/569.html 2007-06-26T12:56:06-05:00 2007-06-26T12:56:06-05:00 SmartMediaToday "Where the First Amendment is implicated, the tie goes to the speaker, not the censor," wrote US Chief Justice John Roberts, with the Supreme Court http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/561.html 2007-06-25T12:37:30-05:00 2007-06-25T12:37:30-05:00 SmartMediaToday RCN Corporation, which provides bundled CATV, telephone and internet service in several markets, failed to meet its EEO requirements over a two year period. The http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/553.html 2007-06-25T12:23:47-05:00 2007-06-25T12:23:47-05:00 SmartMediaToday FCC Chairman Kevin Martin will be a panel of one when the Senate Commerce Committee sits down to discuss "The Impact of Violence on Children" http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/552.html 2007-06-25T12:21:55-05:00 2007-06-25T12:21:55-05:00 SmartMediaToday Although the phrase Fairness Doctrine did not come up during the course of a brief exchange between evening talker John Ziegler and Sen. James Inhofe http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/487.html 2007-06-25T12:05:00-05:00 2007-06-25T12:05:00-05:00 SmartMediaToday The proposed Sam Zell/ESOP acquisition of Tribune Company is pending, with a major sticking point in the form of five broadcast/newspaper cross-ownership platforms which have http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/542.html 2007-06-22T12:08:28-05:00 2007-06-22T12:08:28-05:00 SmartMediaToday The issue: The FCC's ruling to grease the wheels of telco expansion into the MVPD business. The new rules, they say, "will severely restrict the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/520.html 2007-06-21T11:43:57-05:00 2007-06-21T11:43:57-05:00 SmartMediaToday Keeping the heat on the children's theme this summer, the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, chaired by Ed Markey (D-MA), will be looking at http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/513.html 2007-06-21T11:35:05-05:00 2007-06-21T11:35:05-05:00 SmartMediaToday The House Energy & Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health handed pharmaceutical distributors, and broadcasters, a victory yesterday, striking down a potential three-year ban on direct-to-consumer http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/506.html 2007-06-20T13:03:50-05:00 2007-06-20T13:03:50-05:00 SmartMediaToday The FCC has doubled up on KITZ Radio Inc., licensee of KGTK-AM Olympia WA and KITZ-AM Silverdale WA. It seems that when an FCC field http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/494.html 2007-06-20T12:46:49-05:00 2007-06-20T12:46:49-05:00 SmartMediaToday Ed Markey (D-MA), chair of the influential House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, was swift with his praise of Kellogg Company when it announced http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/478.html 2007-06-19T11:55:00-05:00 2007-06-19T11:55:00-05:00 SmartMediaToday Tuesday next, 6/26/07 at 10AM, is now on the schedule of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. And the topic is bound to http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/463.html 2007-06-18T11:30:31-05:00 2007-06-18T11:30:31-05:00 SmartMediaToday The Kaiser Foundation is hosting a number of luminaries today to discuss its new report, "Parents, Children & The Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey." http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/453.html 2007-06-18T11:21:26-05:00 2007-06-18T11:21:26-05:00 SmartMediaToday The Supreme Court's newest justice, Samuel Alito, spoke before the National Italian American Foundation last week, and although he pointedly declined to offer any insight http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/440.html 2007-06-15T11:02:55-05:00 2007-06-15T11:02:55-05:00 SmartMediaToday Do you remember the Family Choice Act of 2006? Then you'll be reasonably familiar with the Family Choice Act of 2007. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) was http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/439.html 2007-06-15T11:01:45-05:00 2007-06-15T11:01:45-05:00 SmartMediaToday Actually, the FM bandit was working out of a garage, or rather, he claims his tenants were. The upshot is that an organization identified by http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/430.html 2007-06-15T10:53:46-05:00 2007-06-15T10:53:46-05:00 SmartMediaToday Do you remember the Family Choice Act of 2006? Then you'll be reasonably familiar with the Family Choice Act of 2007. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) was http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/399.html 2007-06-14T10:24:29-05:00 2007-06-14T10:24:29-05:00 SmartMediaToday The Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health is looking over a multi-pronged bill concerning health in the US. Among the items being considered is http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/383.html 2007-06-12T15:08:37-05:00 2007-06-12T15:08:37-05:00 SmartMediaToday Tavis Smiley will be the moderator later this month with the eight announced candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination face off in yet another debate. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/360.html 2007-06-13T14:43:45-05:00 2007-06-13T14:43:45-05:00 SmartMediaToday The Senate Judiciary Committee will go into session Thursday, 6/14/07, to discuss the ongoing proposal to add a federal reporters shield to the many such