Texas Law Review Archives
 

Volume 59
1980-1981

Issue Number 5

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


 




 

Back to Volume 59 Index