Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the Supreme Court of the United States in Edgar v. Haines. The brief supports a First Amendment challenge to the national security pre-publication review system, urging the Supreme Court to take up an appeal by the ACLU and Knight First Amendment [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12-23-21 Republican congressional leaders have reached out to key Biden Administration agencies to make sure the billions of dollars in various broadband subsidy programs created by Congress goes to areas unserved by broadband, particularly rural areas, rather than to “duplicative and wasteful subsidized overbuilding.” The definition of “access" is [...]
Participated in an amicus letter (with the Reporters Committee and 54 other amici) filed with the House Select Committee To Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol. The matter involves freelance photojournalist Amy Harris, who filed a complaint to block enforcement of a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Second Department in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. v. Kos Media, LLC. The case concerns an individual who authored a post on the digital media website Daily Kos under the [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12-17-21 The Federal Trade Commission has been almost exclusively an enforcement agency, but under new chair Lina Khan it is looking at coming up with new rules to address what Khan calls “lax security practices, data privacy abuses, and algorithmic decisionmaking that may result in unlawful discrimination.” That is [...]
FOR RELEASE: December 17, 2021 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., December 17, 2021 – Keith R. Murphy, senior vice president for government relations and regulatory counsel for ViacomCBS Inc., has been elected to the Board of Trustees of The Media Institute, it was announced today by Institute President Richard T. [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12-16-21 Federal Communications Chair Jessica Rosenworcel made it clear to Republican lawmakers before her successful confirmation vote (68 to 31) earlier this month to a new, five-year term that she did not support efforts by “some liberal organizations” to remove conservative cable channels from their lineups or for the [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Courthouse News Service, et al. v. Glessner. The case concerns recent amendments to Maine’s Rules of Electronic Court Systems (“RECS”) that delay public access to newly filed civil complaints. Courthouse News Service and other [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12-15-21 FCC Democratic nominee Gigi Sohn signaled to Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that she would be no slam dunk vote for restoring the FCC’s vague “general conduct standard” if chairperson Jessica Rosenworcel tees up restoration of the FCC's open internet rules as expected. Under former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12-9-21 Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) has called on Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to immediately launch an investigation of “recent revelations and public documentation” that it had misled advertisers and the public in making claims about the “brand safety” and reach of its ads, which she said would [...]