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FCC Orders NBC Newsrooms To Partner With Soros-Funded Non-Profits
Big Government ^ | 2/3/11 | Dana Loesch

Posted on 02/03/2011 11:12:42 AM PST by tutstar

So much for objectivity. One of the FCC stipulations of the Comcast – NBCU merger was the incorporation of non-profit journalism centers into NBC newsrooms. They are charged with maintaining and increasing local news coverage, the regulation based on the relationship between KNSD-TV and VoiceofSanDiego.org.

KNSD airs the segments, but really can’t take all the credit for them. They are largely the work ofVoiceOfSanDiego.org, a local nonprofit journalism center that has been sharing news tips, co-producing and supplying content to the station for several years.

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Under the terms of the FCC order approving Comcast’s takeover of NBCU, at least half of NBC’s 10 O&Os have to find a nonprofit news center with which to work within the next year. The order cites the KNSD-VoiceOfSanDiego.org alliance as the model for what it would like to see in other NBC markets.

Proponents of the growing nonprofit news movement are hoping that NBC’s FCC-mandated efforts will bear fruit and encourage other commercial TV stations to seek out nonprofit partners.

There’s just one problem with this: Voice of San Diego is a member of INN (Investigative News Network) which is funded by the Open Society Institute, the URL of which is “www.soros.org.” Yes, these “non-profit” journalism centers are funded by George Soros.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: breakdown; comcast; commies; communication; fcc; georgesoros; inn; knsd; mediashenanigans; nbc; nbcu; netneutrality; osi; propagandists; soros; sorosdnc; sorosobama; sorosromney; spookydude; voiceofsandiego
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1 posted on 02/03/2011 11:12:49 AM PST by tutstar
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To: LucyT; BP2; rxsid; null and void; Candor7

ping


2 posted on 02/03/2011 11:14:32 AM PST by tutstar
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To: tutstar

Well NBC News and profits are not mutual terms.


3 posted on 02/03/2011 11:14:45 AM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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To: tutstar

Is Beck on top of this?


4 posted on 02/03/2011 11:15:18 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: tutstar

not surprised

Saddened.

But not surprised.


5 posted on 02/03/2011 11:15:32 AM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: tutstar

“Soros-Funded Non-Profits”

Not just Soros-Funded. Soros-designed, Soros-started, Soros-owned-lock-stock-&-barrel.

There was a story about this a few months ago. It was played up as a purely NPR thing.

This administration must be stopped.


6 posted on 02/03/2011 11:15:39 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
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To: tutstar

And they complain about Fox News and talk radio? Is this even legal?


7 posted on 02/03/2011 11:16:07 AM PST by jersey117
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8 posted on 02/03/2011 11:16:14 AM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: tutstar
Under the terms of the FCC order approving Comcast’s takeover of NBCU, at least half of NBC’s 10 O&Os have to find a nonprofit news center with which to work within the next year.

Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...

It seems to me that the media should be free to do this, or not do this, of their own accord. The government cannot force the media to operate with a preferred outlet or lose their business.

-PJ

9 posted on 02/03/2011 11:19:28 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: tutstar

Is that not an unconstitutional requirement, violating the First Amendment, abridging the Freedom of the Press?


10 posted on 02/03/2011 11:21:00 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Palin 2012: don't retreat, just restock [chg'd to comply w/ The Civility in Discourse Act of 2011])
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To: tutstar

So let’s create non-profit conservative news agencies that they can then partner with...:`)


11 posted on 02/03/2011 11:23:26 AM PST by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: tutstar

Ministry of Truth bookmark.


12 posted on 02/03/2011 11:23:32 AM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: tutstar

“Screw you all and your now inoperative, cracker Constitution"

13 posted on 02/03/2011 11:25:03 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Political Junkie Too

To: tutstar
Under the terms of the FCC order approving Comcast’s takeover of NBCU, at least half of NBC’s 10 O&Os have to find a nonprofit news center with which to work within the next year.

Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...

It seems to me that the media should be free to do this, or not do this, of their own accord. The government cannot force the media to operate with a preferred outlet or lose their business.
-PJ

————Isn’t that the neatest thing, congress didn’t..


14 posted on 02/03/2011 11:28:37 AM PST by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: jersey117

And they also complain about Charles and David Koch - who, if the tables were turned, would have no part of the deal.


15 posted on 02/03/2011 11:28:37 AM PST by Fred Hayek (FUBO! I salute you with the soles of my shoes.)
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To: tutstar

The “Institutionalisation and Legitimisation” of the “Ministry of Nu-Truth”.


16 posted on 02/03/2011 11:31:30 AM PST by GraceG
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To: tutstar

I don’t think it can be called a “movement” if its mandated by government. Yes, they are even more leftist biased.

Dinosaur media deathwatch?


17 posted on 02/03/2011 11:32:00 AM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php)
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To: tutstar
Soros: 3 out of 4 Hidden Dynasties* approve!

If he'd just start a “religious” organization, he'd have all four covered.

Oops; he also funds some Leftist/"Progressive" religious groups. Make that 4 for 4.

*Politics, Financial, Educational, Religious

18 posted on 02/03/2011 11:32:23 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: EBH

Yea, I’m sure that NBC wants to hook up with... World Net Daily? Human Events?

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19 posted on 02/03/2011 11:33:38 AM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php)
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To: tutstar

Why would the FCC have to “order” NBC to buddy up with Soros? They’ve been doing it eagerly for many years.


20 posted on 02/03/2011 11:38:42 AM PST by ozzymandus
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