Article:
L.A. Powe, Jr., American Voodoo: If Television Doesn’t Show
It, Maybe It Won’t Exist, 59 Texas L. Rev. 879 (1981).
Abstract:
Because of the scarce nature of the airwaves, the first
amendment allows government sufficient leeway to require a
diversity of programming that might not otherwise exist. Red
Lion Broadcasting v. FCC looks in this direction and offers the
decided possibility that the FCC’s balanced programming
requirement for television has constitutional sanction. Any
number of examples could be used in this exploration. Powe
chooses to illustrate it with sexual (and to a lesser extent,
racial) stereotyping