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There are so many portentous matters.. talk radio may finally be forced to set ego aside and cooperate. Surely they can at least cooperate on this one.. One host spent some time alerting us. I'd like to hear Savage go after Obama's FCC and save our free speech.

There as been one FR thread that attracted modest attention.

FCC to police news media, question reporters in wide-ranging content survey

"Social Solutions International (SSI) of Silver Spring, MD developed the research design for the FCC to "identify and understand the critical information needs (CINs) of the American public (with special emphasis on vulnerable /disadvantaged populations)."

"will contact newspaper/broadcast/website owners, editors, and reporters in six selected markets for interviews. The contractors will work at making these contacts through both back-door connections and through official channels -- and, once contact is made, the contractors will be asking people at each level to report on their organization’s news judgment."

This FCC crap has been in the works for awhile..

here

in December 2007, the FCC proposed new “localism” measures to force broadcast stations to offer programming more “responsive to the needs and interests of the communities that they are licensed to serve.” These proposed measures, highlighted in a document entitled, “The Report on Broadcast Localism and Notice of Approved Rulemaking,” included a requirement that broadcasters, “provide 3 hours per week of locally-produced program,” and that licensees establish “permanent advisory boards (including representatives of underserved community segments).” The FCC noted that these measures would become part of the application renewal process to make sure broadcasters “meet their responsibilities.”

(June 04, 2012) The FCC now proposes to resurrect and expand that policy with its new Localism, Balance and Diversity Doctrine"

I lived through the decades of the "Fairness Doctrine", in the silenced generation, and I prefer civil war to being shoved, nudged, forced whatever back into that condition.

Radio used to be the only electronic medium; but by the early 1980s the courts were ruling that there were many electronic and other sources of information. A Fairness Doctrine was NOT needed.

Void the bowels of Washington, D.C.! 2014