If you don't like the Media/cable reporting on our Elections.......

[FrenchieCat]

You should then ask the guy who signed what he was thinking about back in 1996. :shrug:

The Telecommunications Act of 1996, the first successful attempt to rewrite the sixty-two year old Communications act of 1934, was passed on 1 February 1996. The act refocuses federal communications policymaking after years of confused, multi-agency and intergovernmental attempts to regulate and make sense of a burgeoning telecommunications industry.

Portions of the act became effective immediately after President Clinton signed the bill into law on 8 February 1996. Other sections of the act will be implemented as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) promulgates new rules and regulations to meet provisional requirements of the act. Noting the historic nature of the bill, President Clinton stated that the legislation would "stimulate investment, promote competition, provide open access for all citizens to the Information Superhighway." However, many public interest groups are concerned that the act undermines public interest values of access.

Public interest and various industry groups, upset with provisions that would restrict First Amendment rights of telecommunications users vowed to challenge the constitutionality of those provisions in court. Within hours of the bill's passage, a number of civil liberties groups led by the ACLU sought an injunction against provisions of the act.


The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is a complex reform of American communication policymaking that attempts to provide similar ground rules and a level playing field in virtually all sectors of the communications industries. The act's provisions fall into five general areas:

radio and television broadcasting
cable television o telephone services
Internet and on-line computer services
telecommunications equipment manufacturing

The act abolishes many of the cross-market barriers that prohibited dominant players from one communications industry, such as telephone, from providing services in other industry sectors such as cable. New mergers and acquisitions, consolidations and integration of services previously barred under FCC rules, antitrust provisions of federal law, and the "Modified Final Judgment,"
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/U/htmlU/uspolicyt/uspolicyt.htm

[mihalevich]

1. I don't have a TV

[FrenchieCat]

2. In many ways, You are blessed!

[FrenchieCat]

3. Just a reminder!

[NightWatcher]

4. crack, it's back back, back, over the wall in centerfield. Homerun

I agree and rec