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Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
aclj.org ^ | February 18, 2014 | Matthew Clark

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1984; 1stamendment; censorship; demagogicparty; fairnessdoctrine; fcc; freepress; freespeech; impeachnow; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; politicalofficers; singlepartystate
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To: ought-six

You are so right. We are the old Soviet Union now.

Waiting for the gulags to be opened.


41 posted on 02/18/2014 4:00:44 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: dandiegirl

The media not only vetted him, the media created him.


42 posted on 02/18/2014 4:01:31 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: FReepers

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43 posted on 02/18/2014 4:02:56 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Please can we trade Obama for Putin?

I have yet to find a Russian willing to make the trade.

44 posted on 02/18/2014 4:03:28 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: basil
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.



45 posted on 02/18/2014 4:06:06 PM PST by Bratch
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To: grobdriver
Barry wants the news stations to start rapping the news.

Well, hard-of-hearing people are an underserved population.

46 posted on 02/18/2014 4:06:07 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; opentalk; ..

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...

47 posted on 02/18/2014 4:07:25 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: Pox

Watch them do a 180 the minute a Republican administration is in office.


48 posted on 02/18/2014 4:08:05 PM PST by xp38
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To: Jim Robinson

WAKE UP PEOPLE,WAKE UP.


49 posted on 02/18/2014 4:08:42 PM PST by onthegulf
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To: Billthedrill
hard-of-hearing people are an underserved population.

Heh.
Our TV feeds audio directly to my hearing aids.
I'm good to go.

50 posted on 02/18/2014 4:13:25 PM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: ilovesarah2012
I wonder how that Fed appointed monitor for Arpaio is doing?

Haven't heard the latest on that.

51 posted on 02/18/2014 4:16:54 PM PST by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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To: Bratch

Looks like we need an enforcer or two or a dozen-—or how ever many it takes………..


52 posted on 02/18/2014 4:16:58 PM PST by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: ilovesarah2012

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...


53 posted on 02/18/2014 4:18:11 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

A pimp has to keep his whores in line.....


54 posted on 02/18/2014 4:20:41 PM PST by wny
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To: ilovesarah2012

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.


55 posted on 02/18/2014 4:21:39 PM PST by TheGipperWasRight
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To: ilovesarah2012

How long before FreeRepublic is kicked offline?


56 posted on 02/18/2014 4:22:28 PM PST by AlexW
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To: ilovesarah2012

Nazis


57 posted on 02/18/2014 4:22:45 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: ilovesarah2012; All
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.

I must have missed something. Hasn't the corrupt media gladly been supporting Obama since when he first started campaigning?

58 posted on 02/18/2014 4:24:53 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Safetgiver
Sad but true. and given the current trends its not looking real good for the next generation at all...

will the regime's monitors be wearing special uniforms? maybe those tall military caps favored by the Norh Koreans....with an all seeing Eye emblazoned on the front?




59 posted on 02/18/2014 4:25:28 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: 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.

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.

60 posted on 02/18/2014 4:25:28 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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