Champion of free speech.(Two Views On The First Amendment)

Broadcasting & Cable, July, 2004 by McConnell, Bill

First Amendment lawyer Robert Corn-Revere has been one of the most successful defenders of free-speech rights. Before the Supreme Court in 1999, he successfully argued against channel-blocking requirements that Congress had imposed on Playboy Television. Corn-Revere talked with B&C's Bill McConnell about the endangered First Amendment.

What's the danger from the indecency crackdown and the coming one on TV violence? We are witnessing a period of cultural McCarthyism. The actions taken and measures proposed is unprecedented. The FCC has imposed record-level fines, stripped due-process protections and broadened its already vague indecency standard to the point of self-parody. Its new restrictions on "profanity" can extend to "blasphemy," "personally...

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