Here are the major changes in the 4th edition. The goal was to streamline the text so that students don’t get bogged down. Also, I made important organizational improvements in Chapters 6 and 7. As you can tell, the book is extremely current.
CHAPTER 1: POWER
- • Cut introductory technological snippet from ACLU v. Reno (1996)
- • Cut Note: Studying Technology
- • Cut Part A.2. Computer Networks
- • Cut Part D. Power Reconfigured
CHAPTER 2: ENTRY
- • Added principal case in Part A.4. Mobile Telephony: MetroPCS v. San Francisco (9th Cir. 2005) (discussing discrimination and effective prohibition claims re antenna siting)
CHAPTER 4: BAD CONTENT
- • Compressed lengthy transcript of George Carlin’s monologue into a paragraph quote
- • Replaced principal case: The 2nd Circuit opinion in FCC v. Fox was replaced with the Supreme Court opinion in FCC v. Fox (2009).
- • Compressed Indecent Communications by Telephone into Note: Dial-a-porn Regulations
- • Cut Note: Denver Area
- • Cut Wagner, Filters and First Amendment
- • Compressed American Library Association case into Note: Children’s Internet Protection Act
- • Cut Note: Content Contol Strategies
CHAPTER 6: CONSOLIDATION
- • Cut Note: Brief History of Broadcast Consolidation Rules
- • Added Note: Ownership Regulations
- • Recharacterized Part A.3. Goliath as Cross-Ownership Rules with substantial reorganization
- • Cut most of Metro Broadcasting v. FCC, and compressed the Note: Rise of Affirmative Action and Note: Demise of Affirmative Action into a single Note: Rise and Demise of Affirmative Action
- • Added Note: Diversity Order
CHAPTER 7: ACCESS
- • Moved Cable TV Part to come after Broadcast TV
- • Cut Part C.2. Third Party Porn and Denver Area case
- • Added Part B.2. MSO Dominance to parallel Part A.2 Network Dominance
- • Added Open Internet R&O
CHAPTER 8: CLASSIFICATION
- • Compressed technical material in Advanced Telecommunications Capability Report
- • Cut Comcast Net Neutrality Order
- • Added Comcast v. FCC (D.C. Cir. 2010)
- • Added Open Internet R&O