Concerns Mount over Debate Moderator’s Connections to Barack Obama

Concerns are mounting over revelations that President Obama attended the 1991 wedding of tonight’s debate moderator, ABC’s Martha Raddatz, whose now ex-husband, Julius Genachowski, was a law school buddy of the president and a man whom Obama would later tap to head the Federal Communications Commission.

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Court Issues “Anti-Family” Ruling on FCC Indecency Policy

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

Parental rights advocates, anti-pornography activists and at least one current member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are condemning as “anti-family” a decision by a federal appeals court that declared the FCC’s ban on “fleeting obscenities”during prime-time hours as unconstitutional.

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Government Take-Over of Internet Begins

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist

The first step in a process that will lead to more federal oversight of the Internet began last Thursday when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to begin the process of reclassifying the Web as a “telecommunications service” rather than an “information service” in order to broaden its authority over it.

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