Superintendent to decidetoday what action to take in taping incident.
Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard OAKRIDGE - The school district superintendent here said he expects to decide today what discipline - if any - to give a third-grade teacher accused of taping a boy to his school desk chair. Superintendent Don Kordosky said he met...

A subsidy by any other name: First Amendment implications of the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999.
I. INTRODUCTION The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act ("SHVIA")(1) changed the face of the market for television video services by authorizing direct broadcast satellite ("DBS") carriers to carry local television stations within their own local markets. Prior to the passage of this law, households could subscribe to...

The new media and the (same) old media.
THE MEDIA SCENE continues to develop in fascinating ways. The newspapers, especially the broadsheets, are having a great deal of difficulty in adapting to the development of the internet. Those, like the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, who depend for the bulk of their revenue on classified advertising,...

TV show zeroes in on drug abuse.
Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard Local television anchors are going back to school. Actually, they already have. And you can see on local TV stations the work they have done with students at four Lane County high schools. The half-hour special, to be...

Speak Softly and Carry A Big Stick: How Local TV Broadcasters Exert Political Power.
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: How Local TV Broadcasters Exert Political Power, J. H. Snider, New York: iUniverse, Inc. 2005, 592 pages. For the past eighteen years, I have worked for CBS. My current title is Assistant General Counsel, and I represent the CBS-owned television...

Faux, maybe; novel, no: the Bush administration is catching hell for its 'video news releases'.
At President Bush's March 16 news conference, a reporter noted that the White House has banned paying journalists to promote the Bush agenda--a reference to the Armstrong Williams scandal--but then asked, "Your administration continues to make use of video news releases, which are prepackaged news stories sent to television...

Good news for good news: excellent television journalism benefits networks and our society.
Newton Minow told broadcasters in 1961 that more news and public affairs programming would help erase the vast wasteland of television. (1) He was wrong. Forty years later, a television viewer can watch what is labeled as "news" all day, yet the wasteland has not disappeared. It may be...

City / Region Digest.
Byline: The Register-Guard LOCAL Service planned for Betty Niven A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday for Betty Niven, a longtime advocate for planning and low-income housing in Eugene, at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Eugene, 477 E. 40th Ave....

Briefly.
Byline: The Register-Guard Radio, TV production the focus of this month's `Employer Visit' The glamour and deadline pressures of radio and television production work will be the focus of the August "Employer Visits" program presented by The Workforce Network, a coalition of jobs-related agencies in...

Mission-based identification of Garden audiences.
Key words: Atlanta Botanical Garden, Fuqua Orchid Center, air washer. ********** The Atlanta Botanical Garden is a small urban Garden located just three miles from the city center in Midtown Atlanta. Since it was chartered in 1976 with a 50-year lease, it has occupied 30...