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Can You Hear Us Now?: Communications Policy and the Criminal Justice System
by Joseph Miller, Esq. Talk about convergence. Not only has the Internet changed the way Americans consume content, it is also changing the criminal justice system. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. According to the 33-country Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the U.S. incarceration rate is 760 prisoners [...]
Media Ownership: Data Dodges and Double Standards
By Joseph Miller Deregulatory initiatives seem to move much faster at the FCC than efforts to improve media ownership diversity. The FCC is expected to relax its long-standing blanket ban on the ownership of a broadcast station and a newspaper in the same market even though minority and female media ownership data on how it will affect [...]
Education Tax Incentives and Direct Expenditures – The Hard Choices
by Ernie C. Jolly Federal student financial aid is an asset-building program that has proven its value in enabling young people from low-income families to find success and build wealth over time. Although an intangible asset, a college degree quadruples a low-income student’s chances of entering the wealthiest income tax bracket, according to a Pew [...]
Media D*versity
by Joseph Miller, Esq. Media advocacy has always focused on the shortcomings of regulators and media giants. Although the faults of both regulators and the media industry are significant, advocates rarely discuss the role candidates for national office might play in rousing interest in media diversity among the electorate. How long should we wait for [...]
Political Ads: Do Minority Media Outlets Benefit?
by Joseph Miller, Esq. With less than two weeks remaining before Election Day, the presidential candidates and Super PACs have spent nearly $1 billion on advertising, enriching broadcast station owners in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Combined total outside spending by Super PACs placing ads on behalf of the candidates has [...]
Tax Policy, Small Businesses, and the Myths that Consume the Discussion
by Ernie C. Jolly In its September 2012 optimism survey, the National Federation of Independent Business reported that small business owners considered unfair taxes to be their single greatest impediment to success. Consequently, it is understandable why the government’s role in spurring small business development has become a hot-button issue on the 2012 presidential campaign [...]
How TV May Make Your Kids Smarter
by Joseph Miller, Esq. Wasteful government spending is a legitimate problem that should be addressed, but it should not be approached with blinders on. Many government-funded programs have been associated with positive socioeconomic outcomes. PBS is an example. Research on television viewing by children can often seem conflicting and confusing to parents, educators, and policymakers. [...]
Is VH1 Cannibalizing BET?
by Joseph Miller, Esq. Two reports released last week–African-American Consumers: Still Vital, Still Growing by Nielsen and Basic Cable Network Segmentation Toward Minorities and Other Niche Audiences in a Digital World: Preliminary Results of an Empirical Study of Cable Advertising by Haizhen Lin, David Waterman, and Sung Wook Ji–shed light on the effect of “market [...]
Broadband Access & Closing the Opportunity Gap
by John B. Horrigan, Ph.D. The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies was privileged to host, in collaboration with Comcast, an event on Monday, September 24, that highlighted the Internet Essentials program that Comcast has rolled out in the past year. The creation of the Internet Essentials program was a condition on Comcast’s 2011 [...]
