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FCC Agency study could stifle freedom of the press, says FCC official
Fox 43 ^ | Feb 20, 2014 | FoxNews

Posted on 02/20/2014 7:30:11 AM PST by Innovative

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To: Innovative

Revolt is coming.


21 posted on 02/20/2014 8:00:59 AM PST by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Innovative
"Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?"

One reason......TO SILENCE TALK RADIO...PRIMARILY TO SILENCE RUSH LIMBAUGH AND PEOPLE LIKE HIM.

(Rudolf Formis: a tale of murder, intrigue and radio in pre-war Prague)....it can happen here...it has started.

22 posted on 02/20/2014 8:09:02 AM PST by yoe
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To: Innovative

“He also said he feared the study might stifle the freedom of the press.”

Ya think?


23 posted on 02/20/2014 8:13:17 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Red Badger

The gov’t has been imposing “censorship” on the news rooms for years. My guess is that censorship will be expanded. We see the censorship, for example, in the way the TV outlets intentionally fail to mention the race of a perp, except of course, where the perp is white and accused of a hate crime.


24 posted on 02/20/2014 8:17:38 AM PST by Rich21IE
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To: Innovative

Kudos and thanks to Ajit Paii


25 posted on 02/20/2014 8:18:43 AM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: Innovative

If you haven’t already, send emails, make calls to your Senators and Reps to stop this BS! I burned up the kb on this subject the other night but have still just begun to let them know what I think of this.

Otherwise it will be like the NSA & IRS, reported on, discussed, then ignored.


26 posted on 02/20/2014 8:21:59 AM PST by Kenny
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To: Innovative

Survey: U.S. press freedom plunges under Obama to 46th in world, after Romania
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3122713/posts


27 posted on 02/20/2014 8:26:41 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: Innovative

This is absolutely splendid.

The media sold its soul for Obama, and this is how he repays them.

To be upset about all of this assumes that, during the last 60 years, the media has been engaged in objective and honest reporting when, in fact, the exact opposite has been the case—The media chose sides and, in doing so, demonstrated that they are not worthy of Constitutional protection.

I’m about to OD on the Schadenfreude.


28 posted on 02/20/2014 8:27:31 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Shoot cops that shoot dogs.)
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To: Innovative

So now the fcc too is being used to destroy the rights of honest, law-abiding citizens who are not members of a privileged minority group.


29 posted on 02/20/2014 9:00:32 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: Innovative

Does anyone doubt that soebarkha is a first rate dictator?


30 posted on 02/20/2014 9:03:25 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Kenny

You mean his accomplices.


31 posted on 02/20/2014 9:04:32 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Innovative

Thank goodness there’s one powerful news outfit that has picked this up and started hammering on it, namely Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which has been on this like white on rice (or black on soot, take your pick).

As mind-boggling as it would seem, apparently the rest of the media are perfectly content to have fascist overseers peering over their shoulders and making “suggestions” as they crank out the “news”. But then again, that’s how fascism always works, those who think they are favored are perfectly happy to collaborate. That is, until they are horrified when they are subsequently shutdown or simply subsumed.

Last night, this issue was the first one after Ukraine coverage on Megyn Kelly’s show, and may have been the first exposure of this issue on national television. (Megyn also picked up on the horror going on in Boston right now concerning the “legal” kidnapping of a couple’s child by Child Protective Services because of a dispute between the child’s doctors about treatment.)


32 posted on 02/20/2014 9:18:51 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Videos of Greta, Megyn Kelly, Special Report and Jordan Sekulow here

Media Grilling - Does FCC Study Violate Freedom Of The Press? - Judge Andrew Napolitano F&F

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3125057/posts

More on the “legal” kidnapping at Boston hospital.

What We Found in a Boston Children’s Hospital Policy Manual About Research on ‘Wards of the State’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/20/what-we-found-in-a-boston-childrens-hospital-policy-manual-about-research-on-wards-of-the-state/


33 posted on 02/20/2014 9:25:50 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Innovative

Only Fox News is biased, don’t you know....


34 posted on 02/20/2014 9:26:17 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Innovative
However, one agency commissioner, Ajit Pai, said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece Wednesday that the May 2013 proposal would allow researchers to “grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run.”

Easy enough. If it's a DNC talking point, it runs.

35 posted on 02/20/2014 9:28:21 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: Innovative

Related:

Critics want FCC media study thrown on ‘trash heap,’ skeptical of changes

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/20/critics-want-fcc-media-study-thrown-on-trash-heap-skeptical-changes/

“The FCC drew the ire of free-press advocates and lawmakers after proposing a “study of critical information needs,” which one dissenting commissioner said would let researchers “grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run.” “


36 posted on 02/20/2014 9:36:02 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

I’m sure the ACLU is on this like Annie Gaylor on a public manger scene, right?

I’m sure journalist school deans are writing OP-EDs expressing their outrage in all major newspapers as we speak...


37 posted on 02/20/2014 9:40:48 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: catnipman
All who have not seen the German movie "The Lives of Others" about life in East Germany within the Iron Curtain, should see it ASAP.

The Media may think they have cushy, secure jobs, and not mind their political overseers, but one false move and being blackballed as a matter of principle would result in perpetual unemployment. Scary even for liberals... Think that can't happen here?

38 posted on 02/20/2014 9:41:05 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Starboard

This sounds like a pre-emotive strike by Obama. His internals may be showing the media is about to slowly turn on him so he is doing this to keep the cattle from stampeding. Can’t have that now can he? Throw the fear of god(obama) in the collective media.


39 posted on 02/20/2014 10:18:00 AM PST by NCC-1701 (I am proud of what America USED TO BE.)
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To: yoe

TO SILENCE TALK RADIO

Exactly. Rush,Fox News, et al.


40 posted on 02/20/2014 10:33:56 AM PST by FES0844
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