Posted on 02/20/2014 7:15:35 AM PST by KeyLargo
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Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
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:
(Excerpt) Read more at aclj.org ...
When Lanny Davis and @ewerickson agree on the issue, @fcc, you know you done messed up. Don't put government "monitors" in newsrooms.
Because they still don’t cover “underserved populations” as much as they should.
“We now interrupt this coverage of the Ukraine civil war to bring the latest from the Mosque bake sale.”
BTTT
Have been expecting this course of action (you suggest )for some time.
Waiting for all this to happen has been painful.
To all liberal news media pundits who are now protesting
this unconstitutional over reach by the FCC:
WELCOME TO THE TEA PARTY!!!!!
It. Is what Putin is having his thug in the Ukraine do.
Interesting. How about the ultimate false flag, chaos/crackdown paradigm…KingHussein is whacked, POSOTUS takes one for the team. Martyrdom awaits the one? His usefulness/effectiveness/legacy is waning.
Have we seen it before?
Some of us have been predicting that for five years.
New Obama initiative tramples First Amendment protections
By Byron York | FEBRUARY 20, 2014
Advocates promote the project with Obama-esque rhetoric.
“This study begins the charting of a course to a more effective delivery of necessary information to all citizens,” said FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn in 2012. Clyburn, daughter of powerful House Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, was appointed to the FCC by President Obama and served as acting chair for part of last year.
The study identified eight “critical needs”: information about emergencies and risks; health and welfare; education; transportation; economic opportunities; the environment; civic information; and political information.
It’s not difficult to see those topics quickly becoming vehicles for political intimidation. In fact, it’s difficult to imagine that they wouldn’t. For example, might the FCC standards that journalists must meet on the environment look something like the Obama administration’s environmental agenda? Might standards on economic opportunity resemble the president’s inequality agenda? The same could hold true for the categories of health and welfare and “civic information” — and pretty much everything else.
“An enterprising regulator could run wild with a lot of these topics,” says Pai. “The implicit message to the newsroom is they need to start covering these eight categories in a certain way or otherwise the FCC will go after them.”
“The purpose of these interviews is to ascertain the process by which stories are selected,” the Social Solutions report said, adding that news organizations would be evaluated for “station priorities (for content, production quality, and populations served), perceived station bias, perceived percent of news dedicated to each of the eight CINs, and perceived responsiveness to underserved populations.”
There are a lot of scary words for journalists in that paragraph. And not just for broadcasters; the FCC also proposes to regulate newspapers, which it has no authority to do. (Its mission statement says the FCC “regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable…”)
Ping.
BUMP!
Top of Drudge is linking to Wall Street Jounrnal article on this topic.
“Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?”
Because he can cause he has a pen and a phone and their is no leadership in DC to stop him.
Commie take over...! Joe McCarthy tried to warn us about it...
They pointed their fingers at him and called him names... They STILL do...
We should have listened to him....now its to late... Just words ain't going to clean this mess up... we're not talking about just a couple of "politicians" anymore, the rot goes plum to the core of our government.. It's going to take a lot blood and balls it fix it now...
It’s obvious and its simple.
They are doing this because they intend to control ALL media outlets, and have their political officers in place to ensure that they tow the line...or the FCC will pull their licenses and shut them down.
That’s where they are headed, and that is why they are doing it...and from their perspective the US Constitution be damned.
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Because they are fellow travelers.
Same reason the GOP is silent.
The elite are scared of the proles. The used to have a better control on the information flow, but there seems to be a coup going on. The TEA Party came from somewhere.
We could do worse.
Heck, we're doing worse now!
The JFK assassination has been alleged to be an inside job with various causes, the one that I think is most likely is that it was motivated by his intent to end the Fed and go back to gold-standard.
Nonetheless, I don't think that would be the ultimate false-flag. The ultimate false-flag would be an incident that impacts national scale reasoning and does a huge chunk of damage; eg: nuke or EMP attack. -- and there was a guy who said that the firing of three nuclear commanders (and possibly the subsequent "cheating scandal") was due to foiling the use of nukes in just such an attack.
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