About James Gattuso
James Gattuso is a Senior Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy in the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Prior to joining Heritage, he served as Vice President for Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and also as Vice President for Policy Development with Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE). From 1990 to 1993, he was Deputy Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy at the Federal Communications Commission. From May 1991 to June 1992, he was detailed from the FCC to the office of Vice President Dan Quayle, where he served as Associate Director of the President's Council on Competitiveness. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Dana, six-year-old son, Peter (whom he relies upon to operate his VCR), and his two-year-old daughter Lindsey (who does the DVD player.) He has no known hobbies, but is not nearly as boring as he seems.Posts by James Gattuso
- Blogger Freedom Re-Affirmed by FEC
- Rasmussen: Fairness Doctrine Supported by Nearly Half of all Americans
- FCC’s McDowell on Fairness and Neutrality
- Day 505: The XM-Sirius Circus Is Finally Over
- Regulate the Internet? FCC.gov Has It Right
- Obama on the Anti-Fairness Doctrine Bandwagon?
- Fairness Doctrine Debate: Less and More than Meets the Eye
- Confusing Fact and Fiction at Techdirt
- Retention Marketing: Bad Call at the FCC
- Cellphone Hoax Popped
- Sirius-XM: Day 445
- Spectrum and the Specter of Central Planning
- FCC Localism Rules: A “Tax on Blackness”?
- Turning the Page on Newspaper Ownership Rules: New Paper from Heritage
- Internet Futurama: Hollywood Writers, Little Presidents, and Neutrality Regulation
- And the Prize for Best Reporting in a 19th Century Medium Goes to…
- Never Be Late Again: Google Announces “Custom Time”
- Did You Read this in The Paper Today?: Biggest Drop Ever for Newspaper Revenue in 2007
- Comcast-BitTorrent: A Triumph for Regulation?
- File-sharers Sneezing in the Salad?
- Nominal Convergence: USTelecom Now “The Broadband Association”
- New Hampshire to Telcos: Just Say “No” to Competition
- Defending America Through Telephone Subsidies
- Happy Birthday, Sirius-XM
- Dan Rather and the Ego Hall of Fame
- New Hampshire Gives Net Neutrality a Big “Huh?”
- Change at the National Association of Broadcasters
- Kevin Martin’s Double Vision
- Jesse Jackson: Kevin Martin Is Too Regulatory
- McDowell For Chairman
- AT&T: Don’t Regulate Me, Regulate My Competitors
- General Martin To Declare Cable State of Emergency
- The FCC’s 11-Year Rush to Judgment on Media Ownership
- TLF’s Comcast Podcast: Now in Writing
- Fcc.gov: Worst Federal Website?
- The Federal Unbundling Commission?: Conference this Tuesday, Oct. 30
- Comcast’s Cat and Mouse Game: 34,700 Mice
- 602b Anyone? CRS Finds House Bill Would Allow E-mail Taxes
- ZDNet: “Comcast Feeling the Heat From Competition”
- Washington Post on the Comcast Kerfuffle
- Gary Shapiro v. Lou Dobbs: The Thrilla on K Street
- Is the Internet Tax Moratorium Too Popular?
- Pro-taxes or Pro-Internet?: Eshoo, Atkinson and Myself on Internet Taxation
- New LECG Study Puts Cost of Unbundling at 30 Billion Euros
- Hillary Deserting Neutrality Army?
- NY TImes Debate Analyser: Where’s Telecom?
- Sen. Norm Coleman on the Fairness Doctrine: Unfair, Unwise, and Unconstitutional
- The FCC Faces a Deadline, Pt. 2: Will It Stop the Shotclock on Sirius-XM?
- The FCC Faces a Deadline: Decisions on Special Access and Broadband Tonight?
- Google Favoritism? Eric Schmidt’s 55 Minutes of YouTube Fame
- The Hullabaloo over Lollapalooza: Another Brick in the Neutrality Wall
- FCC’s Copps on Murdoch: “Rules? We Don’t Need No Stinking Rules”
- The Economist: Murdoch Deal Bad News for News Corp?
- May: 700 MHz Cavalcade Over? It’s Only Just Begun
- The FCC’s 700 MHz Auction: “A Highly-Tailored Garment That May Fit No One”
- Rag-Tag Army Watch: The Washington Post on Poor Little Google
- iPhone: Innovation to Slavery in 13 Days
- Beyond Talk Radio: Fairness Doctrine Taking a Beating in Blogosphere Too
- Congress to Vote On Fairness Doctrine Today
- Dick Durbin, the Fairness Doctrine, and Old-Fashioned Values
- Good Sense from Pence: Ban the Fairness Doctrine
- Correcting the Consumer: New Report Urges Washington to Fix Talk Radio “Structural Imbalance”
- National Association of Broadcasters v. National Association of Broadcasters
- Sunshine State Censorship: Who Needs the FCC?
- XM-Sirius: After 78 Days, FCC Starts 180-Day Review
- NRO’s Suderman: To Heck with the FCC
- McDowell Unleashed, Takes On OECD
- The Fairness Market: Putting Money Where Your Free Speech Is
- Does Satellite Radio Suck?: Kohl and Karmazin Disagree
- Back to Muzak? Heritage Report on the Fairness Doctrine
- Congress: In A Rush to Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine?
- Economist: Patently Obvious Since 1572
- Rabbit Ears Perking Up? Antennas on the Rise, Says AP
- The Wall Street Post-Journal?: Rupert Murdoch and the Bid for Dow Jones
- Jack Valenti: Hollywood’s Star in Washington
- Jacobs at Heritage: The Video
- The Other Other America: Some Don’t Care About Over-the-Air, Says CEA’s Shapiro
- Even More on Google’s Neutrality Stance
- One TV Set, One Vote? Broadcasters Assert Rights for Televisions
- Assuming There’s No Can Opener: Florida Neutrality Study Assumes No Competition, Finds Market Doesn’t Work
- Heritage Foundation Event: QUALCOMM Founder on Patents, Thursday, March 22
- NRO on Wu’s WIreless War
- More on Google and Neutrality: Is the Army Becoming Rag-Tag?
- Commerce TV Subsidy Compromise: Spend First, Limit Later
- USF and Broadband: It’s Not a Tax, They Just Want Your Money
- France Gets Tough on (Documenting) Violence
- Google Joins the FTC Bandwagon on Neutrality Regulation
- From our Don’t-Shoot-the-Messenger Department: More on Public TV and Choice
- Public TVs Digital Worry: Too Much Viewer Choice
- Skype Gripes: Cellphones, Carterfones, and 1968
- May on Wu: No to 1968
- Wireless, Wu, and Wallstein Too
- Playing Chicken With Consumers: Wu Calls for Cellphone Regulation
- Cyren Call Goes Flat at Senate Hearing
- No Television Left Behind: Will Washington Subsidize Your Basement TV?
- Cyren Calls and Siren Calls: More on Public Safety Spectrum
- One Man, No Vote: Martin Tries to Break Logjam on BellSouth Merger
- Do FCC Rules Hinder Minority Ownership?
- Wal-Mart to Sen. Edwards: No Cutting in Line for PlayStation3
- “Revered” Engineering Principles and Other Unpersuasive Arguments
- Say Goodnight Gracie: Burns and Allen Concede–Senator Tubes Loses Chairmanship
- Big John Is Back: Dingell Warns FCC on Merger
- Bell-South-AT&T: Regulation Via the Back Door?
- The Economist: Your Television is Ringing
- Even More Norwegian Neutrality News
- Hazlett on Google and The Myth of An Open Net
- One Step Closer to Legalizing Online Gambling?
- Verizon’s Hoewing: Why Rome Isn’t Burning over Broadband
- Spin Cycle: Salon.com Claims Victory for Neutrality Regs
- DTV Subsidies: Not So Invisible Hands Reach For More
- Will Fire Hoses Also Be Banned? Greenpeace and Burning Laptops
- Sol Schildhause
- Randy May On Neutering the First Amendment
- How Much For Those Tubes? Stevens Telecom Bill Priced at $5.2 Billion
- FCC Localism Report: More (and Less) Than It Seems
- Papergate?: More Questions than Answers on FCC Localism Report
- Is Anybody Listening? The NYT on the Shrinking Radio Market
- Guess the State and Win a Subsidy: Senate Plays Geography Games in Telecom Bill
- Firefighters Chilled: 9/11 Documentary Attacked As Indecent
- Study: VoIP Quality Getting Worse. Can We Prioritize Now?
- Shareholders Ask Microsoft: Why Support Regulation?
- Cash for Rabbit Ears: Feds Propose Rules for TV Subsidy
- YouTube: The New CNN?
- Talking Through Disasters: New Heritage Paper on Emergency Telecom
- Perp Walk for Larry Page?
- Cities and Franchise Fees: “No Stupidity. Rationality.”
- Must-carry Won’t-Happen: Newbie FCC Member Says “No” to Martin
- Dan Rather Leaves CBS. Nation Yawns.
- Phone Taxes in Congressional Telecom Bills?
- Guess Who’s Pro-Regulation Now? AT&T Endorses Must-Carry
- Even More to Read: Heritage’s New Linked! Page
- A Bad Week for Neut Regs
- CDD and Neutrality Regulation: The Era of Trickle-Down Rhetoric is Not Over
- Neutrality Regulation and the White Hat
- New Heritage Report: “Broadband Regulation: Will Congress Neuter the Net?”
- Pew: Broadband Access Soars, Prices Drop
- Another 15 Minutes: A Guy Goma Update
- TV From The OC to DC: Event at Heritage, Thursday, June 8
- Sensenbrenner and Antitrust: Bootstrapping Neutrality Regulation
- Not-So-Strange Bedfellows on Neutrality Regulation
- More on Underdogs and Net Neutering
- Who Was That? BBC Interviews Wrong Guy
- Net Neutrality: Urban Legend # 5
- Recherche de l’Internet, Partie Deux
- Wrong Focus: Real Indecency Reform is Competition
- A well-regulated Internet?
- It’s Official: FCC Doesn’t Know the Time of Day.
- What Digital Divide? Some Surprising Results in New Study
- Rag-tag band for net neutrality?
- Deregulating by Doing Nothing: The FCC Makes the Right Non-Decision
- Net Neutrality, France and iTunes
- Will the House Regulate the Internet? Commerce Committee Considers Net Neutrality
- The Economist Speaks Out Against Regulation
- Economists Speak Out Against Regulation
- AT&T-BellSouth: No Big Deal
- Gmail Fun
- Jupiter Research: Increased Choice a Major Driver for IPTV
- A Cheer for Tate: New FCC Member Gets it Right on Cable
- Wyden on Net Neutrality: If You Build It, We Will Regulate
- Video Competition, pt. 3: IPTV Something Familiar To Americans
- Video competition, pt. 2: A Little Something for the Cities
- Video Competition: Much Ado About Something
- Google v. the Chinese Government: Yes, We Will Help You Censor
- Google v. the U.S. Government: Would You Like Those Alphabetically?
- “Offensive” and “Really Offensive”
- Adam Carolla, NPR and the F-Bomb
- Some Heresy on A La Carte: Could it Work After All?
- Voip on the Rocks? More News of the Digital Bizarre
- Telecom Reform: DeMint Does Daca
- A Trillion Here, A Trillion There: Counting the Benefits of Broadband
- Video Placebo: Is that Really HDTV You Are Watching?
- Schwarzenegger Hires a Kennedy
- FCC to Require ADHDTV broadcasts by 2007
- AT&T is Dead, Long Live AT&T
- Missing Commissioner pt.3: Abernathy Makes It Official
- Tunis Talks End: “Internet Lives to Innovate Another Day”
- Tuning in to Tunisia: A Bad Start to the UN Information Summit…
- More on the Missing Commissioner: Tate, Copps in at FCC, but Where is Russell?
- Mergers, Conditions, and the Missing Commissioner
- Ken Ferree added to Heritage “Must-Change TV” line-up
- Handouts and Takings: New DTV Paper from Heritage
- Must-change TV?: Heritage Event on Digital Television
- The Left Turns: FAIR Endorses Unplugging Public Broadcasting
- Economist: How The Internet Killed the Phone Business
- Deregulation in the House: 82 regulations in 77 pages
- More on House Telecom Rewrite
- Look Who’s Talking: Google Takes on Telecom
- Telecom Godot: TCS Commentary on Ensign Bill
- “Can’t Talk Now”: FCC Hires Indecency Advisor
- The Economist’s Bad Language
- Cell Phones in Cars: A Rare Case for Regulation
- Wireless Taxes Hurt 3rd World Too
- And we thought things were bad here: Europe to regulate Internet broadcasting?
- Sen. Stevens and His Toys
- 911 For Deregulation
- “The Carnage of the Past Six Years”: Consumer Groups on Telecom Mergers
- Cherchez le Web
- Boomerang Politics: Cable Industry Fights for Regulation
- What’s on the phone tonight?: Ad agency say mobile phones may overtake TV
- A Gaullist Google?
- The MCI Foodfight: Shareholders, Not Regulators, Should Decide
- An Indecent Proposal: Expanding FCC Speech Controls to Cable
- First Thing We Do Let’s Fire All The Lawyers
- Broadcast Indecency: More Regulation Not the Answer
- What’s a Landline, Professor?
- Another Telecom Shoe Drops: Verizon Buys MCI
- E-Waste Exposed: Why It’s OK to Throw Your Computer Away
- Halftime Report: Viewers Complain to FCC About Boredom
- SOTU Pt. 2: The Power of Positive Thinking
- Internet AWOL from SOTU speech?
- More Internet Taxes on the Way?
- AT&T and the Telecom Family
- Not censorship, just limits on speech
- Heritage event on Dan Rather and the Blogosphere
- Replacing Michael Powell
- No More Internet For Them?: LA Times on Spyware
- Heartland Telecom Conference Dec. 17-18
- Dueling Headlines on FCC UNE order
- Dynamic Deregulation: UNE article from PFF
- Deja Vu All Over Again? UNE article just out from Heritage
- Regulatory Fallujah: UNE showdown due Wednesday
- Airborne Airtime: FCC to Reconsider Ban on Cellphones in Airplanes
- Post on Pew’s Possibly Problematic P2P Paper
- Jello, Indecency, and the FCC
- Desperate Regulators (con’td)
- Rather Out
- New blog watch: Tapscott’s Copy Desk
- Monday Night Football and Desperate Regulators
- Nightmare on 12th Street: FCC May Revive UNE Regs
- Hollywood, Values, and P2P Lawsuits
- New Pro-censorship, er, Pro-”Fairness Doctrine” Website Launched
- Should Cities Own Broadband Networks? New Study Says “NO”
- “Huh” Moments and the Myth of Media Concentration
- Google v. Microsoft: Trustbusters Not Needed
- NMRC Roundtable to Discuss “End of Regulation”
- The Great Firewall of China
- FTC Goes After Online Chutzpah
- Regulation Flashback: How the FCC Stopped Presidential Debates
- Stern Get Sirius
- House passes spyware bills
- Do-Not-Call List Upheld By Supremes
- New Heritage Study on Bush and Regulation
- Locking the Door Against Internet Trespass: New Heritage Article on Spyware
- Hazlett on Oracle: “The Antitrust Debacle”
- Will Rathergate Spur More Media Regulation?
- Monti Soft? EU May Clear Oracle-PeopleSoft Takeover
- Allen Calls for “Hobnail Boots” Strategy on Spyware
- New Acronym Report: Here Comes SPIT (Spam Over Internet Telephony)
- Barton Rejects CBS Hearings, No Breasts Involved
- Polling the Unwired
- CBSNews.com on CBS
- Cox Goes Rather Too Far: Congress Shouldn’t Investigate CBS
- Economically-Rational Regulators–Not an Oxymoron Anymore
- The Walter Cronkite Complex
- Oracle v. DOJ. And the winner is…
- Spy Act, etc.
- VoIP with an English light touch
- Heritage study on effect of P2P
- Do networks make a sound?, pt. 2
- If networks don’t cover conventions, do they make a sound?
- French Recipe for Broadband Success (?)
- More on New Old Rules
- Piddle, twiddle on linesharing
- Media monopolies give to… Kerry
- New plan on intercarrier compensation
- Media Minitel?
