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- Title
COMMUNICATIONS ACT AMENDMENTS, 1952 -- AN ATTEMPT TO LEGISLATE ADMINISTRATIVE FAIRNESS.
- Authors
FISHER, BEN C.
- Abstract
The article offers information on the U.S. Communications Act Amendments 1952. The amendments were the result of more than a decade of investigations, studies and hearings. All segments of the broadcasting industry participated in the formulation of the amendments. Section 5 of the act has been amended so as to provide the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should organize its staff into integrated bureaus by function. Section 409 of the act has been amended to supplement this separation of functions and Section 309 has also been extensively amended to make definite and certain the procedural steps involved in securing a license. As mentioned, it is generally believed that the major fault of the amendments has been that too much discretion has been taken away from the FCC.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States. Communications Act of 1934; LEGISLATIVE amendments; PARLIAMENTARY practice; LEGISLATION; BROADCASTING industry; UNITED States. Federal Communications Commission; LICENSES; COMMERCIAL law
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1957, Vol 22, Issue 4, p672
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1190372