Posted on 02/18/2014 3:32:28 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
The Obama Administration’s Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is poised to place government monitors in newsrooms across the country in an absurdly draconian attempt to intimidate and control the media.
Before you dismiss this assertion as utterly preposterous (we all know how that turned out when the Tea Party complained that it was being targeted by the IRS), this bombshell of an accusation comes from an actual FCC Commissioner.
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai reveals a brand new Obama Administration program that he fears could be used in “pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories.”
As Commissioner Pai explains in the Wall Street Journal:
Last May the FCC proposed an initiative to thrust the federal government into newsrooms across the country. With its "Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs," or CIN, the agency plans to send researchers to grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run. A field test in Columbia, S.C., is scheduled to begin this spring.
The purpose of the CIN, according to the FCC, is to ferret out information from television and radio broadcasters about "the process by which stories are selected" and how often stations cover "critical information needs," along with "perceived station bias" and "perceived responsiveness to underserved populations."
In fact, the FCC is now expanding the bounds of regulatory powers to include newspapers, which it has absolutely no authority over, in its new government monitoring program.
(Excerpt) Read more at aclj.org ...
Surely this is a 4 year old story ... right ?
we live in a dictatorship (and not an American one, either)
get used to it
it will go a lot easier on you if you do
Medical Center won’t let patients watch Fox News
So you can imagine my surprise when I discovered a Michigan health care facility, funded by federal tax dollars, blocked Fox News Channel from its waiting room television sets.
The president of Family Health Care directed staff to block Fox News after a board member complained about our network’s coverage of the Affordable Care Act, an employee told me.
“The board member complained that patients were turning the channel to Fox News,” said the employee who asked not to be identified for reasons related to the unemployment line. “They are pro-ObamaCare and they felt (Fox’s) stance did not mesh with our stance.”
Family Health Care is a private, non-profit business that operates community health centers in five Michigan towns. According to the employee, the health centers have ObamaCare facilitators on site to help people apply for the program.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/02/13/medical-center-wont-let-patients-watch-fox-news/
“the health centers have ObamaCare facilitators on site”
Why aren’t Americans outraged about this crap??? We are now ranked 46th in Freedom of the Press!!!!
I need more wine.
Heh.
Barry wants the news stations to start rapping the news.
Ought to be entertaining...
Sooner or later...
IIRC, the presstitutes are members of the Communications Workers of America union.
They want MARXISM so why are they concerned?
They deserve it.
I’m utterly outraged..I have been since the evil drip debuted his FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE routine in 2008!
America has become Fat and Lazy! The easy life...has washed the grit out of them!
For now, anyway, it’s still legal to turn off your telescreen.
A few more years into King Barry’s Reign of Error, that freedom will just be a distant memory.
They’re getting what they want.
This would be a real hard to deny step towards socialism/tyranny
The Neo-Nazi’s are now in firm control of us.
Um, tell them to leave, and have them cited for trespass if they don’t.
these people think were all a pack of DUMMIES!....Collectively, we are.
Agreed.
Now keep in mind that this is being put forward as a voluntary program. So there’s allegedly an option to say “no thanks” and refuse to host the monitors.
Of course the fact that the monitor program was thought up, put together, implemented and managed by the organization that also just happens to make little things like LICENSING DECISIONS doen’t justify concerns about intimidation, conflicts of interest, etc ... right?
Right?
Nothing Obama does will be voluntary for long.
And when their license isn’t renewed?
This is straight our of the old Soviet playbook: Place political “officers” in all aspects of life, but especially in those industries or outlets that have a direct influence on public opinion.
The left have been doing something akin to that for years, in schools and college campuses throughout the country. Now, placing them in newsrooms and networks is an in-your-face reminder that the media must tow the government line.
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