Gender Slurs: Why What Rush Limbaugh Said Is So Damning to Women
Rush Limbaugh's use of "slut" and "prostitute" was a textbook example of how horrifically damning gender slurs are, and why such forms of abuse deserve swift and serious action.
Rush Limbaugh's use of "slut" and "prostitute" was a textbook example of how horrifically damning gender slurs are, and why such forms of abuse deserve swift and serious action.
FT | Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
Kevin Martin is to step down as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to join the Aspen Institute, a non-profit leadership organisation, t...
Wall Street Journal | Fawn Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin on Friday evening canceled next week's meeting at which the commission was sched...
Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011
McCain's internet policy is the product of a team of advisors that gives lip service to consumers, but when the rubber meets the road, it's the corporations that get most of the goodies.
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 05.25.2011
Last Friday the FCC bared its teeth. finding that the nation's largest cable company had practiced discriminatory network practices -- throttling file-sharing traffic -- and did so with a lack of disclosure.
Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011
A new era for the Internet could begin on Aug. 1, when the FCC is expected to decide that Internet users have rights under the communications law.
Jack Myers | Posted 05.25.2011
Unless the TV industry is permitted to stretch some boundaries in this new media environment, local TV news will quickly follow newspapers into the economic doldrums.
New York Sun | Harold Furchtgott-Roth | Posted 05.25.2011
Tomorrow marks the 74th anniversary of the Communications Act of 1934, the legal framework for federal regulation of all manner of communications thro...
Los Angeles Times | Jim Puzzanghera | Posted 05.25.2011
Facing growing criticism of his agenda and tactics, a defiant Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, refused senators' re...
AP | John Dunbar | Posted 05.25.2011
The Federal Communications Commission, overturning a 32-year-old ban, voted Tuesday to allow broadcasters in the nation's 20 largest media markets to ...
AP | John Dunbar | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite intense political pressure, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve a proposal Tuesday that will allow broadcasters in th...
Los Angeles Times | Jim Puzzanghera | Posted 05.25.2011
Critics usually blame Martin, a soft-spoken Republican known as a political tactician who has accomplished the rare feat of being criticized by all fo...
AP/Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
The nation's top communications regulator Wednesday denied that his proposed media ownership rule has a major loophole that would allow newspapers and...
Los Angeles Times | Jim Puzzanghera | Posted 05.25.2011
Two key House lawmakers announced Monday that they were investigating the Federal Communications Commission, accusing its chairman of "possible abuse ...
Financial Times | Stephanie Kirchgaessner | Posted 05.25.2011
Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are seeking to rein in Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission who is seeking to expa...
New York Times | Kevin Martin | Posted 05.25.2011
In many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species. At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years. Those news...
Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.13.2012