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What's Up With Local Cable Rates?, Jim Jacobson's interview with Nicholas Johnson, appeared in the Iowa City, Iowa, Icon, July 11, 1996, and is available on the Icon's Web site.
Nicholas Johnson's article, Jefferson on the Internet, appeared in the Federal Communications Law Journal, vol. 47, no. 2 (Dec. 1994), and is posted by the FCLJ as a link from the main page of the December 1994 issue .
His Cop Killer Telcos appeared in the Educom Review "Trends & Forecasts" section of the November/December 1994 issue, and is posted by Educom.
The Letter to Assistant Attorney General Bingaman opposing the Bell Atlantic-TCI merger, signed by Johnson, Ralph Nader, and others (James Love, "Nader, Nicholas Johnson & others oppose BA/TCI," TAP-INFO Internet Distribution List, October 20, 1993) is posted by TAP (Taxpayers Assets Project).
The Atlantic Monthly's archive contains Johnson's The Media Barons and the Public Interest: An FCC Commissioner's Warning from the June 1968 issue, as well as the Atlantic editors' follow-up a year later, The American Media Baronies, A Modest Atlantic Atlas in the July 1969 issue (making reference to the earlier "Media Barons" piece). ("Media Barons" has been reprinted in dozens of anthologies, and was the basis for a chapter in How to Talk Back to Your Television Set.)
Soundprint produced an audio series called Hell's Bells: A Radio History of the Telephone with extensive quotes from Nicholas Johnson. The audio version is still available from Soundprint's archives, but all that is known to be currently available from the Web is this script version.
Children's Trust Fund News, vol. 5, no. 8, Winter 1995
Cohen, Jeff and Solomon, Norman, "Routine Somersaults of Self Censorship," Media Beat, September 13, 1995
Husseini, Sam, "Felons on the Air: Does GE's Ownership of NBC Violate the Law?" EXTRA!, November/December 1994
Douglas, Suzanne, Review of The Knowledge Economy: The Nature of Information in the Twenty-First Century, Institute for Information Studies (1993), makes reference to Nicholas Johnson's Introduction to the volume, in Educom Review, March/April 1994
Mokhiber, Russell, "The 10 Worst Corporations of 1993," Multinational Monitor, December 1993
Ivey, Mark, "Long-Distance Learning Gets an 'A' At Last," Business Week, May 9, 1988
Director, Karen Mele, "Access Visionaries: First Amendment Advocates Who Influenced Cable Regulation" (undated)
Eden, Eric, Libel & Defamation in the Information Age (undated)
Winter, James, "How the Media Smother the Facts" (undated)
Someone who goes simply by the name of "Robert" has included a quote from Test Pattern for Living in a page called "Robert's Favorite Quotes"
It turns out that President Nixon's aide, H.R. Haldeman, was a collector of Nicholas Johnson's remarks. A transcript of extemporaneous remarks by Johnson, November 6, 1969, is indexed in the Haldeman Papers.
And it will surely not come as a surprise to find out that Nicholas Johnson was, in some prior life, a fully certified Saint. Saint Nicholas Johnson is described as one of the "little known English Orthodox Saints . . . Nicholas Johnson, slain by the Bolsheviks in 1918 in Siberia, feastday July 4/17" in Reader Daniel Lieuwen's "Lives of Orthodox Western Saints" on a page maintained by the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church of Anna, Texas.
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