About: CommLaw Conspectus is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Fairness Doctrine. It has an ISSN identifier of 1068-5871. Over the lifetime, 3 publications have been published receiving 4 citations.
TL;DR: The authors of Rationales and Rationalizations as mentioned in this paper discuss the culture of regulation that pervades much of the discussion of law and public policy governing electronic media and present a case study of the threat to the First Amendment posed by this regulatory culture.
Abstract: The book Rationales and Rationalizations' documents well the \"culture of regulation\" that pervades much of the discussion of law and public policy governing electronic media. Several philosophical and public policy impulses, doctrinal devices, and political realities have coalesced to. produce this culture. This commentary applauds Rationales and Rationalizations for its critique of the current impulse to over-regulate electronic media and then focuses on one recent episode the promulgation of new affirmative standards for children's educational television as a \"case study\" in the threat to the First Amendment posed by this regulatory culture.