The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. TELEVISION

The Federal Communications Commission issues record-high fines for recent broadcasts of allegedly “indecent” TV programming.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews on why we can do without the FCC.

2. ENERGY

The Senate prepares to vote on a budget resolution which would authorize oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy Policy Myron Ebell on the reasons for opening ANWR.

3. INTERNET

Popular blogger and law professor Glenn Reynolds receives a rush of interest in his new book on technological empowerment, “An Army of Davids.”

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Editorial Director Ivan Osorio on Reynolds’ book, its fans and its critics.

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