Obama Administration’s Plan to Study Newsrooms Is Drawing Plenty of Public Opposition

The Blaze ^ | 2/19/2014 | Fred Lucas

[Beave Meister]

A plan by the Federal Communications Commission to study how news organizations select stories has prompted about 10,000 people to sign a petition saying “no government monitors in newsrooms.”

That’s according to the American Center for Law and Justice, which announced the petition Wednesday and said it reached that number within the first two hours.

The agency announced a Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs last year, explaining that it wanted to understand the process of which stories are selected, station priorities, content production, populations served, perceived station bias, and perceived percent of news dedicated to each of the “critical information needs” (CINs) in a community, Fox News reported.

Obama Administrations Plan to Study Newsrooms Is Drawing Plenty of Public Opposition

In the light of the setting sun President Barack Obama speaks about drought while on a farm in Los Banos, Calif., Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. But Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the ACLJ, a conservative legal group, worries it could be used to intimidate certain news organizations into covering issues that government officials feel are important.

[RetiredTexasVet]

They need not even go to the news rooms ... just email, fax or phone over instructions ... if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

[G Larry]

If I were the owner of Fox, I would say:

“You are not welcome here and your presence is NOT a legal condition of my license.”

[G Larry]

Oppressors should be evicted via baseball bat.....

...lest they outlaw bats.....

[Graewoulf]

Make this a true year of action: Impeach Soetoro-Obama in 2014, PERIOD.

[ANGGAPO]

I have money that says FoxNews will be the first one to feel Obama’s foot on their neck. So much for the First Amendment.

[tomkat]

Given that 95% of today's Propaganda Directorate is staffed by seditious communist-fellating presstitutes, mØnkeyboy's commissars won't have much to do but keep the kneepads stocked.

             

[FlingWingFlyer]

You’re right. That’s a given. I imagine Barry’s “monitors” will just sit around with the clowns at the other cable news networks smoking dope and talking about when they are going to “come out.”

[Excellence]

perceived station bias, and perceived percent of news dedicated to each of the “critical information needs”

The junta's perception can be rather nebulous.

[TBP]

So now the government is sending content monitors into newsrooms. Bye bye, First Amendment.

[Slings and Arrows]

The Bill of Rights isn't dead yet. The 3rd amendment is not being threatened.

*ahem*

[VerySadAmerican]

Megyn Kelly is really upset. In fact, I don’t think she’s even skipping across the set anymore.

The obama lover “news” folks are learning what they’d already knew if they studied history just a little bit. Eventually they come for you.

[Daffynition]

I just want to know *WHO* thought up this idiotic scheme?

[Dr.Deth]

[devolve]

- CASS SUNSTEIN : (OBAMA’S SOCIALIST-COMMUNIST LIMO-LEFTIE BRAIN) :

- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2422

[Texas resident]

Yeah, but if they control what news comes out, the news out of the Ukraine and Venezuela will be omitted.

Already happening to news from the Texas/Mexico border.
NONE of the going ons from that border region make it out of the RGV. NONE.

[TexasRepublic]

At last, we are getting down to some serious Communism before the mid-term elections.

[TexasRepublic]

At last, we are getting down to some serious Communism before the mid-term elections.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Beave Meister.