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 ...
You are so right. We are the old Soviet Union now.
Waiting for the gulags to be opened.
The media not only vetted him, the media created him.
I have yet to find a Russian willing to make the trade.
The question is not why is he doing this—the question is, how can he get way with doing this? He has absolutely no authority to do so. In fact, Freedom of the press is pretty far up in the Bill of Rights IIRC…….Laws are meaningless when no one is willing to enforce them.
Well, hard-of-hearing people are an underserved population.
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
Watch them do a 180 the minute a Republican administration is in office.
WAKE UP PEOPLE,WAKE UP.
Heh.
Our TV feeds audio directly to my hearing aids.
I'm good to go.
Haven't heard the latest on that.
Looks like we need an enforcer or two or a dozen-—or how ever many it takes………..
The media got in bed with these scum, they can reap the whirlwind for not minding their house (1st Amendment) and freedom of the press by engaging in partisan activities vs. being a watchdog over the government...they have given the commies the rope from which they will be hung...
A pimp has to keep his whores in line.....
Remember that scene from Airplane! where the Soviet news anchor was talking while an off-camera person pointed a gun at his head?
We’re almost there.
How long before FreeRepublic is kicked offline?
Nazis
I must have missed something. Hasn't the corrupt media gladly been supporting Obama since when he first started campaigning?
Less than 5 years before the death camps and hit squads are in effect.
It will happen under Obama's third (and final) term.
He's not going ANYWHERE, people.
Get over that fantasy.
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