Fighting for the First Amendment
: I’m at an Association of National Advertisers’ meeting on TV in New York and Bob Corn-Revere, the leading First Amendment attorney (whom I’ll be interviewing at the Freedom to Connect conference) is speaking to the industry:
He is subbing for an FCC speaker and he’s doing so because, he reveals, when Kevin Martin got the chairman’s job at the FCC, people in the agency were told to cancel all speaking engagements.
He lists new content-control initiatives: on violence (see the post below), on children’s TV and ad limits (including even the inclusion of URLs for network promotions), on advertising of food (“the new tobacco?”), on product placement, and, of course, on indecency and profanity.
