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Submitted: February 7, 2008 - 11:30am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 11:59am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 11:59am
FERREE: FCC SHOULD NOT MANDATE DTV PSAs
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Former Federal Communications Commission Media Bureau chief Ken Ferree said the FCC would be making a mistake by mandating broadcaster digital-TV-education public-service announcements. He said the move would be "pressing the panic button and trampling on core constitutional values." He added that "a state-sponsored, bureaucratically crafted message about the digital-television transition" would "almost certainly be overturned in court" as unconstitutional coerced speech.
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