The New CATV Rules: Proceed on Delayed Yellow

Elites largely govern our nation\u27s current decision-making process.The average citizen\u27s failure to participate in that process perhaps derives largely from his inability to inform himself adequately on all the issues. However, the ability of cable television (CATV) to place each person in complete command of his informational and entertainment environment has thrust society upon the threshold of an electronic communications revolution. Indeed, if CATV is allowed to develop its full potential, the individual will not have to receive information and entertainment passively. Rather, CATV\u27s virtue of two-way communication will permit him to transmit as well as receive information. His access to the total storehouse of information will, therefore, increase, and as a result CATV will restore the average citizen to his rightful role in deciding vital issues. On February 2, 1972, the FCC adopted a new set of rules governing CATV. The rules do not provide the green light for which existing and potential CATV operators had hoped. They do, however, permit CATV to proceed on the delayed yellow. This article will focus upon the technology, economics and uses of CATV. It will outline public policy goals for CATV service and discuss FCC jurisdiction over CATV. Finally, it will evaluate and recommend changes in the new CATV rules

Regulation of Campaign Funding and Spending for Federal Office

This article will detail significant data on campaign funding and spending, describe the major laws for regulating campaign funding and spending, analyze the constitutional issues raised by these laws, and propose changes to render the laws safer from attack on grounds of unconstitutionality and more effective in achieving a viable election process

The Equal Opportunities and Fairness Doctrines in Broadcasting: Should They Be Retained

The author recently testified in the current hearings conducted by the U.S. House Subcommittee on Communications in which repeal of the Equal Opportunities and Fairness Doctrines is being considered. In this article the author discusses the constitutional bases of these doctrines, the governmental action issue in the event of their repeal, and whether the Fairness Doctrine inhibits broadcast journalism. He suggests a differential equality of access solution to the present problem of application of the Equal Opportunities Doctrine and argues that the need of the people to know should continue to be a right through the Fairness Doctrine

Encouragement of Employment of the Handicapped

Six million Americans of employable age have a physical impairment which is sufficiently serious to hinder them in finding employment. Included among the handicapped are orthopedics, those having defective vision, hearing or speech, cardiacs, diabetics, epileptics, and others. Employment of handicapped persons is in the interest of society. Employed, the handicapped are tax-payers; unemployed, they are tax-spenders. If they are not given the employment which they desire the handicapped are forced to become a charge on society. To secure their employment, however, is a problem of great magnitude, requiring the cooperation of employers, employees, interested civic organizations and governmental agencies seeking rehabilitation of the handicapped