Event Title

Private Interests in "Public Interest" Programming: An Economic Assessment of Broadcaster Incentives

Presenter Information

James T. Hamilton

Location

Duke Law School

Start Date

9-2-1996 1:00 PM

End Date

9-2-1996 2:15 PM

Description

The reversal of the FCC's laissez-faire approach to broadcasters could be caricatured as a resurgence of progressive paternalism, in which government regulators attempt to influence people to watch more programs approved by the FCC. The notion of an active FCC specifying additional limits on programming may also suggest a return to command and control regulation, at a time when Congress is deregulating many other communications channels. This Comment argues, however, that attempts to influence the amount of educational programming for children, public affairs coverage, and indecent or violent programming are all aimed at remedying, rather than creating, market failures.

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James T. Hamilton, Private Interests in “Public Interest” Programming: An Economic Assessment of Broadcaster Incentives, 45 Duke Law Journal 1177-1192 (1996)

Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol45/iss6/3


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Private Interests in "Public Interest" Programming: An Economic Assessment of Broadcaster Incentives

Duke Law School

The reversal of the FCC's laissez-faire approach to broadcasters could be caricatured as a resurgence of progressive paternalism, in which government regulators attempt to influence people to watch more programs approved by the FCC. The notion of an active FCC specifying additional limits on programming may also suggest a return to command and control regulation, at a time when Congress is deregulating many other communications channels. This Comment argues, however, that attempts to influence the amount of educational programming for children, public affairs coverage, and indecent or violent programming are all aimed at remedying, rather than creating, market failures.