Judiciary Violence Hearing Witnesses Set

The Senate Judiciary Committee's Jan. 30 hearing on
what to do about gun violence will not include any witnesses from the media,
according to a list of participants, but media violence could still be on the
table.

The witnesses include Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.),
husband of former congresswoman and gun violence victim Gabby Giffords; NRA CEO
Wayne LaPierre; Baltimore County Police Chief James Johnson; attorney Gayle
Trotter; and Fordham law professor Nicholas Johnson (not to be confused with
the former FCC commissioner of the same name who is also a law professor, but
at the University of Iowa).

But given that the committee has partial jurisdiction over
the FCC, and asignal from a committee staffer last week that it would be a broad inquiry,
the hearing still bears watching in media circles.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.