The most important matter before the F.T.C. -- and the F.C.C. -- is hardly the report Mr. Gore and Mrs. Cheney are hawking but the approval of pending media mergers like the AOL purchase of Time Warner.
"We want to put a human face on a dynamic, passionate technology," Rashall said in an interview, as music wafted in the background and construction workers put the frenzied finishing touches on a pending media event (estimated cost: several million dollars).
He also threatens to pull out of the Organisation of American States if its sister body, the Inter-American Human Rights Court, condemns his government in a pending media-freedom case.It is one thing to badmouth the multilaterals but another to leave them, even for oil-rich Venezuela.
Judge issued interim guidance on the use of social media, pending a public consultation involving the judiciary, prosecutors, lawyers, the media and "interested members of the public".
To match its expanding media delivery network, Apple's pending applications for delivering media to its media devices will be critical in assuring continued success in the face of Microsoft's Zune assault.
Writers had earlier spurned a proposal to defer setting pay schedules for new media pending a study of the marketplace.
In particular, I will examine the impact of the protests on the Japanese media, pending Supreme Court cases on freedom of assembly, policing tactics and strategy, and the reemergence of right-wing ultranationalism and rightist violence.
It appears unlikely, for instance, that directors would be any more inclined than writers toward the companies' earlier request to delay setting pay for new media pending an industrywide study.
In July producers offered writers a choice: Delay their request to set compensation for new media pending a study of the market, or accept a radical change in the residuals system that would permit additional payments only after a company had recouped the cost of a movie or television show.
In April Human Rights Watch noted that a new media law pending in the United Arab Emirates would tighten restrictions on media freedom.
The stance provoked a $1 billion lawsuit from Viacom, which is still pending, and animosity from media executives who say they still believe YouTube could be more aggressive in taking down pirated clips.
