As a Libertarianish person, I much prefer self regulation to government regulation. Have the NAB hire Dr Dean Edell to draft an industry code of conduct on accepting advertisements and infomercials, and perhaps “experts” – like requiring a clear statement if a “doctor” is an M.D. or a PhD in physiology or anthropologic biology.
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While this could be a positive step to curb outlandish weight loss claims made by unscrupulous businesses, I have absolute and immutable ‘faith’ that it will go far beyond the bounds of what it intends to do. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines will be offered up and supported by hearings to be held by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection. These guidelines will lead to unscrupulous government tactics and result in all sorts of vague, restrictive guidelines that WILL extend into all sorts of other business advertisements.
Meanwhile: Federal Communications Commission will soon commence a field test of its “Multi-Market Study of “Critical Information Needs” (“CIN Study”) in Columbia, South Carolina. The test is intended to “study detailed content analysis of broadcasts, newspaper articles, and WEBSITE POSTINGS to determine the extent to which these media cover particular topics that RESEACHERS have identified as serving “critical information needs.” Then the FCC will submit a “report to Congress regarding barriers to market entry and participation by entrepreneurs and other small businesses.” What?
Forget about there being no statutory authority for this type of study, or what other purposes it will be used for, or what steps will be taken to protect 1st Amendment rights, or to use it to further regulate journalism, what, in the name of all that is good, honest, trustworthy and decent, is it the business of the government to do this type of study unless it is to be used for a nefarious purpose?
I have absolute and immutable ‘faith’ that the government we have today is not just wacky, and unresponsive to its citizens, but is dangerous to our freedom, liberty, health and pursuit of happiness. Consider for a moment just one revealing example, it is the established precedence of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that we, as persons, have “no fundamental right to [our] own bodily and physical health, which includes what foods [we] do and do not choose to consume for [our]selves and [our] families, because [we] do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food [we] wish.”