When Lanny Davis and @ewerickson agree on the issue, @fcc, you know you done messed up. Don't put government "monitors" in newsrooms.
How Free Is Our Free Press?
February 16, 2014
According to the World Press Freedom Index, we’re getting less free all the time.
If it wasn’t enough to see the United States slide in four rankings of economic freedom, Internet liberty, and government transparency last year, the Land of the Brave and Home of the Free (except where prohibited by law) is off to a swell start in 2014 by slipping 13 places on the World Press Freedom Index. Compiled by Reporters Without Borders, the Index keeps a running tally of governments’ respect for journalistic freedoms on matters ranging from legislative restrictions to outright whacking of reporters. The U.S. has taken a hit largely from the post-9/11 insistence on fetishizing claims of “national security” (Rep. Mike Rogers now wants to criminalize the publication of sensitive information like that released by Edward Snowden) and from the Obama administration’s crusade against whistleblowers....
http://www.militianews.com/free-free-press/