Week 5: Final Research Project and Student Response

WednesdayMar 21 at 10:45am

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The radio station WART is refusing to have any political advertisement on their radio station. Horn and Smith who are political members of the house and legislature want to buy the ad. However, the radio station cannot rebuke any political programming because it is against FCC political policies for broadcasting. Federal Communications Commission (2010) revealed that “The Communications Act requires that broadcast stations provide ‘reasonable access’ to candidates for federal elective office. Such access must be made available during all of a station’s normal broadcast schedule, including television prime time and radio drive time.” WART radio station must give both candidates equal run time to advertise. However, for Horn’s complaint, he cannot go beyond the time amount, because WART radio station has to have particular airtime before the election. (Federal Communications Commission, 2010). Horn cannot get any special privileges with announcing his candidacy. The FCC reaction to Smith’s request would be the same for Horn. According to Pember & Calvert (2014) “community censorship does not mean censorship or punishment imposed by the government, but rather the silencing of speech by private people or business entities” (p. 39). The government lack control and power in this area. This quote alludes that the effect from the influenced political people had a more considerable amount of intimidation (Pember & Calvert, 2010). The FCC evolved through the years regarding the issues such as political policy as updating the listeners and the licensees with the continued ruling and laws on what to do and not to do with community censorship.

Tolanda

References

Federal Communications Commission. (2010, November 15). Federal Communications Commission (FCC) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Retrieved from http://www.fcc.gov/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Pember, D. R. & Calvert, C. (2013). Mass media law. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?id=voVzCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=pember+and+calvert+2013+FCC&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY4umL5v3ZAhWGON8KHT7EAFkQuwUIKjAA#v=onepage&q=FCC&f=false

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