As the commissioners wrote at the time, "The intrusion by government into the contents of programming occasioned by the enforcement of the Fairness Doctrine restricts the journalistic freedom of broadcasters and actually inhibits the presentation of controversial issues of public importance to the detriment of the public and the degradation of the editorial prerogative of broadcast journalists".
As with those other programs, the occasion for "Little People," if we're being honest, is that its subjects are visually disconcerting.
Speaking to Cooper at a different point in the evening, Blitzer compared the caucus the network was watching (the other cable news networks having decided not to change their regular programming for the occasion) to the uprising in Syria.
You would think that devising a program for this occasion would be easy.
But the prime minister said that on the contrary, the new proposal showed that his Conservative-led coalition government was flexible and willing to modify its programs when the occasion called for it.
In the past, the mayor's account and a separate one, @NYCMayorsOffice, have been known to plug city programs and, on occasion, pass along a sampling of public praise.
"The Way of the Knife" trenchantly analyzes how this program, which on occasion included torture, gave way under the Obama administration to an emphasis on drone attacks and targeted killing, which have so far attracted less controversy.
While it was understood the program would on occasion pursue stories posing risk of injury or death, it was expected to seek an objective opinion on the wisdom of doing so and how such risks could be minimised".
Light Industry, an enterprising film-and-electronic-art space in Brooklyn, has assembled a compelling program for the occasion, with lectures on the experimental filmmakers Stan VanDerBeek and Stan Brakhage, and screenings of work by Jaime Davidovich, George Kuchar and Luther Price, an underappreciated artist also showing at Participant Inc.
The festival runs Tuesdays at 7 30 p.m. and Wednesdays through Sundays at 8 30 p.m. through Aug. 19 (631) 271-8423, extension 5. Happy Father's Day Although Father's Day doesn't get the same attention as Mother's Day, there are a few special programs marking the occasion today.
Not that the programming particularly reflects the occasion.
