The FCC Plan To Police The Newsrooms [Team Obamugabe's Totalitarian Hopes]

investors.com ^ | 2/13/14

[SoFloFreeper]

First Amendment: The FCC has cooked up a plan to place "researchers" in U.S. newsrooms, supposedly to learn all about how editorial decisions are made. Any questions as to why the U.S. is falling in the free press rankings?

As if illegal seizures of Associated Press phone records and the shadowy tailing of the mother of a Fox News reporter weren't menacing enough, the Obama administration is going out of its way to institute a new intrusive surveillance of the press, as if the press wasn't supine enough.

[SoFloFreeper]

Ajit Pai, though nominated by Obama, is a REPUBLICAN on the FCC. Ajit Pai DOES NOT WANT THIS PLAN TO MOVE FORWARD. HE IS WARNING US TO TRY AND STOP IT!

Obama is apparently required to put an equal number of Republicans and Democrats on board of the FCC...one law the Clown has not yet decided to ignore.

We should heed Mr. Pai's warning.

99% of the media are Obama suckups already.

We need to protect the 1% who are truthful. :)

[GraceG]

[ Ajit Pai, a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission, warned this week in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that a plan to dispatch researchers into radio, television and even newspaper newsrooms called the “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs” is still going forward, despite the grave danger it presented to the First Amendment. ]

Ajit Pai needs to avoid Parks, planes and Sushi....

[Para-Ord.45]

Useless GOP sit idly buy. Bonehead goes shopping for Florida condos.

The ‘ Reich Stuff ‘ marches on with no resistance .

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Say anything you like, just don’t say anything you don’t like.” - Old communist saying.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

What's old is new again - the Editors Law of October 4, 1933

 

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007655

 

"Propaganda Ministry officials expected editors and journalists, who had to register with the Reich Press Chamber to work in the field, to follow the mandates and instructions handed down by the ministry. In paragraph 14 of the law, the regime required editors to omit anything “calculated to weaken the strength of the Reich abroad or at home.”

 

The Propaganda Ministry aimed further to control the content of news and editorial pages through directives distributed in daily conferences in Berlin and transmitted via the Party propaganda offices to regional or local papers. Detailed guidelines stated what stories could or could not be reported and how to report the news. Journalists or editors who failed to follow these instructions could be fired or, if believed to be acting with intent to harm Germany, sent to a concentration camp. Rather than suppressing news, the Nazi propaganda apparatus instead sought to tightly control its flow and interpretation and to deny access to alternative sources of news."

 

Right out of the Third Reich playbook.

 

 

[Talisker]

Some days it’s just hard to believe I’m reading what I’m reading.

[Navy Patriot]

The FCC Plan To Police The Newsrooms

The American Media will welcome them on kneepads.

[Gasshog]

looking for angry reporters whose story ideas were rejected as evidence of a shutout of minority views.

Another big EEO complaint and giveaway? Paying off "black farmers" was too restrictive The FCC will top that pay a hefty claim to any minority who didnt like what they saw, or didnt see on the 10 o'clock news!

[ilovesarah2012]

So glad this story is getting out. Fox had it tonight.

[henkster]

I was thinking today that we may have it all wrong about the explosion of information in the computer age. We’ve thought that the internet allowed a freer flow of thruthful and accurate information. To some extent that has happened. This website is a prime example. But here’s where we were wrong; you have to go look for Free Republic. The free flow of accurate information is only there for the naturally curious. Unfortunately, we are a minority.

The vast majority of people are accustomed to having their news information fed to them. The internet, television and entertainment media allows the left to go beyond The Big Lie. Now the propaganda complex can overwhelm the average person with a constant barrage of lies. The average guy just can’t hack through them to get to the truth.

The information age has created a propaganda machine that Joseph Goebbels never dreamed of.

[Graewoulf]

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

[amnestynone]

That can backfire. By the time they get it all set up there could be a Republican President.

[JParris]

Folks, this is scary stuff. If there was any doubt the regime was looking for total take over this should put it to rest.

There has always been the question if our press would defend the 1st amendment with more vigor than they defend the 2nd. This will make it all clear. Hopefully, some where deep in the recesses of the bowls of our press there is still a stand up guy or two that will not submit to this. If not, the republic is lost for certain.

Good luck to you all and God Speed.

[cpdiii]

What could possibly be wrong with the “Ministry of Truth” being attached to the News Media? /Sarcasm

[lapsus calami]

 

 

You authored a thoughtful post and I thank you for it. I believe the challenge is to be more aggressive and utilize the electronic medium better than they can. There are many avenues to do that - I think it is steadily increasing all the time - not as fast as we would like it perhaps, but there is momentum.

 

The average guy just can’t hack through them to get to the truth.

 

That is correct - there is a LOT of chaff out there for people to wade through. My method of overcoming that is to get the entire formatted text of important and pivotal articles copy & pasted into emails and fired in all directions. Not just a link to click on, no, with the whole text in front of them there is no excuse not to read it. The source link is there for them to click on and get acquainted with the originating site which at times may have even more relevant and informative content to offer. Those folk pass it on to others and they in turn pass it on and on and on. This is my way of getting people a direction to issues they should watch and even act upon. I have managed to mobilize quite an army of people with that technique alone and I certainly encourage others to do the same.