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Title: Pacifica Reconsidered: Implications for the Current Controversy over Broadcast Indecency.
Author : Federal Communications Law Journal
Release Date : January 01, 2010
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 431 KB

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I. INTRODUCTION This Article tells the story behind the Supreme Court's 1978 decision in Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation. (1) Using interviews with participants, documents from the case, and papers of some of the Justices who heard the appeal, (2) it explains how a single letter complaining about "dirty words" in a comedy routine broadcast by a radio station ended up in the Supreme Court. It also relates how a closely divided Court found the FCC's admonishment of the radio station to be constitutional even though the broadcast was protected by the First Amendment and its distribution by other means could not be prohibited.