sure the media protects the public i'm simply ways are considered public property the federal communications commission is charged with the responsibility of protecting the people the f.c.c. decided broadcasters needed to be licensed to licenses were free of charge but there was a catch t.v. and radio owners had to serve the public if they did not people could challenge their sizes and the f.c.c. could take them away. and the f.c.c. understood that radio and t.v. you should be owned locally so they passed strict rules limiting the number of stations any one person could ellerey in defense needed to stay cool be told me six hour hold an operator by n.b.c. . then came the war. and radio became a lifeline. the president of. the information we were getting was vital we all knew that a date which will live. in infamy important to our national security important to our democracy our america this is edward morrow speaking from armor and we learned this new medium could be used against us hegemony not anything they were after a video proof of her yankee birth or. her. for or for oil for what they did of course

the federal communications commission has low-level broadcast station availables, frequencies that are available for short-term broadcasting. if one of those would be taken and utilized by parks and rec to announce four contributors to the parks and rec for clean-up volunteers for equipment volunteers for the types of things that if the community knew about and had the opportunity to contribute money, time, or resources that they could possibly do. but part of the issue is they don't really know what's going on in parks and rec. a short-term broadcast station that was assigned to the needs of parks and reck that anyone could pick up on any radio that those who would like to make contributions to the park to actually call a number that is listed and have an opportunity to distribute what's needed. thank you. president buell: thank you. good idea. >> is there any other comment under the general manager's report. seeing none, we are on item number nine. at this time members of the public may address the commission on things that are on the general public commission. is there anyone that w

regulators at the federal communications commission are investigating whether google broke the law when its street- mapping service mistakenly collected consumers' personal data. the federal trade commission has already looked at the same issue, and took no action. still ahead, business is booming in the lap of luxury. find out why retail is rebounding in high-end stores like these. general motors signaled more good news for wall street today, just a week ahead of its expected i.p.o. the automaker posted a third- quarter profit of $2 billion, its third successful quarter in a row. g.m. made most of that money in north america. closing plants, shedding jobs and launching new products. as diane eastabrook reports, g.m. hopes the good news will convince investors to buy its stock again. >> reporter: analysts credit g.m.'s profitable third quarter to cost-cutting and getting higher prices for its products. with fewer vehicles rolling off assembly lines and better products-- like its new chevy cruze-- g.m. commanded higher sticker prices. jeremy anwyl from edmunds.com also thinks g.m. has be

this taping one democrat would simply do this it would take the power away from the federal communications commission and to restore the fairness doctrine without an act of congress but there are new battles yet to be waged time after time and hearing after hearing people complain about licensing there must require at least half of all broadcast licenses in every market to go to a local interest local control doing otherwise violates the public trust you bell and i like to say that broadcasting is a lot like driving it's not a right it's a privilege and if i get caught driving recklessly endangering the public i lose my license it doesn't matter if i own twelve hundred cars i. don't have the right to do this on the public airways. take their licenses it's pending before you right now how many people here would like to see clear channel lose six licenses for this kind of broadcasting. cheney her turn at the mike at the f.c.c. hearing in tampa w t v t in january of two thousand and five my husband and i challenge the operating license of the fox station right here in tampa we have proven in court the t

the federal communications commission says 70% of 911 calls come from cell phones. the f c.c.he system to be updated for the digital age. they haven't been overhauled since 2001 when they were equipped to accept cell phone calls. >>> health insurance has become a luxury that many americans simply cannot afford these days so imagine the frustration when you do have an insurance policy but you still can't get your plan to pay off on drugs that cost thousands of dollars a month. dr. kim mulvihill on one woman's fight to get better and her fight to pay the bills. >> i'm gonna get ready for my infusion. >> reporter: it's a ritual mona matwani goes through every day. infusions of antibiotics to fight lime's disease. it attacks the nervous system. >> i was at my job laying under the desk during office hours because i couldn't stand up straight. >> reporter: it makes her so exhausted she had to quit her job as a public service lawyer. >> i cried for days. i couldn't accept that i wasn't able to work. >> reporter: it comes from the bite of a particular where there are lots of dear, lik

at their news federal communications commission is investigating whether google broke the law by sucking up fragments of e-mail's web surfing behavior and other activities over public why five well photograph in neighborhoods for mapping. it just completed an investigation two weeks ago they criticize the search drive for collecting sensitive information over wireless networks for several years before they realized it. we will be right back as the news continues. p all live look off of the coast. watching as the cruise ship slowed outside of the day as more tugboats are coming to trying to show this boat into the port. the splendor is 8 mi. outside the harbor. two tugs hauling it is slowly from the mexican coast for more are hooking and to help steer to the dock. these passengers had been on the cruise ship since monday when a fire broke out. alameda county sheriff's deputy is charged with 10 counts of child molestation. he molested three children between 2005 and 2009 in san ramon. $4.6 million bail. he worked added deputy. federal immigration officials rejected calls by san francisco a

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is the president of washington public broadcasting station wants the government, the federal communications commission to do away with a couple of cable news networks. >> i'm tired of the right and the left. there's a little bug inside of me which wants to get the fcc to say to fox and to msnbc, out, off. end. good-bye. it would be a big favor to political discourse, our ability to do our work here in congress. >> as for cutting off npr's federal funding, congressman lamborn's office tells fox he's considering bringing it up again in the next congress when the republicans are in the majority. bret? >> bret: molly, thank you. alaska republican senator lisa murkowski will apparently return to washington. murkowski is celebrating what appears to be a write-in victory over the republican nominee who was tea party backed, of course, joe miller. she acknowledges that ballots remain to be counted but insists the numbers show she has won. >> i listened to alaskans and they were asking me to stay in the race. they were asking me to give them a choice and we saw that play out after two months, you have -- you h

the federal communications commissions investigating google's mapping. the problem where car recorded wi-fi data as they drove around mapping streets. the federal trade commission had investigate and decided to end the inquiry without charges. google cars used to record the name of wi-fi access points and you have wi-fi at home? >> do i. >> do you know what it's named? >> the code name for it? >> i know the code name. they drive around and record the code name and later they are able to reconstruct maps using the code names. they were not supposed to record the data and in some case they did. >> what are if i changed the name? >> somebody has to drive around again. >> it was an innocent idea and turned out badly. >> they had that happen a few times. thank a lot. >> a sheriff's deputy is behind bars charged with 10 felony counts of child molestation. he appeared in a contra costa courtroom and held on $4 million bail. prosecutors said he abused a girl 2 and two boys between 2005 and 2009. he was a 15-year veteran and worked at the jail in dublin and befor

and more importantly, the fcc, the federal communications commission does not have any control over theontent of cable television. mr. rockefeller's on the senate committee on commerce which has oversight, so you think he could ask somebody about that little detail. the not really -- okay, we need the other music. brian -- thank you. the not really silver roger ails. he told an online gossip site today "the president has not been very successful." he had to be told by the french and journals his socialism was too far left for them to deal with. giving mr. ailes the final pass, it is absolutely possible that ailes thinks he's speaking a public opinion and not public opinion he helped to manufacture. on his fox news websites today attacks the president for his new children's book. obama praises indian chief who defeated u.s. general. that's the cleaned up version. the original headline read "obama praises indian chief who killed u.s. general." his most controversial choice may have been sitting bull who defeated custer at little bighorn. seriously, we've reached the point where fox news i

federal communications google is giving a surprising company-wide salary hike. it's giving all 23,000 employees worldwide a the federal communications commission is investigating whether law by inadvertently sucking up fragments of e-mails, web surfing behavior and other online activities over public wi-fi networks while photographing neighborhoods for its "street view" mapping feature. the inquiry by the fcc comes two weeks after the federal trade commission concluded its own inquiry into the problem, the ftc criticized the search giant for collecting potentially sensitive information over unsecured wireless networks for several years before realizing it, wal-mart getting the holiday spirit free shipping on 60,000 items on their website. there's no minimum purchase to use the offer wal-mart is starting its holiday season early to revive sales as sales in stores open more than a year has fallen for five consecutive quarters. first passengers are off the cruise ship. from san diego a live look. it has pulled into port with six tugboats coast guard cutters also is courting the ship it will take several hours to get everyone off. the elevators are not working. they have

in fact, these are the precautions that now appear on the web sites of the federal communications commission, the fda and the american cancer society as of september, 2010. if you are concerned about radio frequency radiation than you can use an earpiece or headset, avoid the continually wearing a wireless your piece, and we have grocers to give you what other information is available and anyone who wants to give them away you can take as many as we've brought here today to give particularly to the young parents who need to know it's not a good idea to download white noise and put it under your baby's perlo or gavankar iphone it to the radio frequency wireless and let them play or read to themselves, and those things are being done now. we need to let parents know and the world know that there are safer ways to use cell phones, considering text in the rafters and talking, and of course don't text when you're driving. you can do something radical. you can limit the amount of time we talk on the phone and you can do something even more radical. you can turn your phone off so that you get calls

this has been one of the top complaints to the federal communications commission for decades. the bill directs the f.c.c. to adopt the engineering standards recommended by the body that sets technical standards for digital television within one year. these standards were developed when i introduced the legislation in the last congress. so now we don't have to wait another 50 years for a solution. with the passage of this les legislation, we'll end the practical -- legislation, we'll end the practice of consumers being subjected to advertisements that are ridiculously loud and we can protect people from needlessly loud noise spikes that can actually harm their hearing. this technical fix is long overdue and under the calm act, as amended by the senate, consumers will be in the driver's seat. i look forward to the enactment of this bill but most importantly so do millions of consumers across the country. so i urge my -- excuse me -- my colleagues to vote for the bill and -- let's see, i will -- i don't think -- i don't know if there's anyone here that wants to speak on my side s

but the federal election commission says it is illegal, that bilateral act of communication and commerce was illegal. why was it illegal? because hillary clinton they said, she was running for president of the united states in the democratic primaries were going on and you couldn't do this under the campaign finance laws. this went on in the supreme court. the obama administration marsha 2009 was arguing in defense of the idea, which was a provisional law called for for 1b that corporations cannot expressly advocate the election or defeat of the candidate. that is different than making a contribution. corporations cannot contribute to the federal election committee. the issue is whether a corporation which by the way could be a newspaper, could be a television station, could be a radio station, corporation or people who get together and want to pool their money want to speak that they cannot -- in the colloquy that went back and forth between the solicitor general, the question came up and it was chief justice roberts and me and to really push it and anthony kennedy and alito were pushin

communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin this evening with a look at the federal debt, president obama bipartisan commission laid out preliminary proposals to reduce the federal budget deficit, the proposals would cut more than $3.8 trillion over the next decade, they include sweeping changes to social security, elimination of popular tax breaks and cuts to medicare and defense spending the final report is due on december 1st. the president addressed the issue generally at a press conference for the g-20 summit in south korea earlier today. >> i set up this commission precisely because i am prepared to make some tough decisions. i can't make them alone, i am going to need congress to work with me. there was a lot of talk during the course of this campaign season about debt and deficits, and unfortunately, a lot of the talk didn't match up with reality. if we are concerned about deaf and -- debt and deficits, then we are going to have to take actions that are difficult and we are going to have to tell the truth to the american people. before anybody starts shooting down proposals, i think we need to listen,