Posted on 02/21/2014 8:41:00 AM PST by Dqban22
Obama’s News Police
Posted By Matthew Vadum On February 21, 2014 @ 12:56 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage
The Obama administration is planning to send what critics characterize as government spies into the newsrooms of the nation’s media outlets.
This unprecedented assault on Americans’ First Amendment freedoms is part of the Community Organizer-in-Chief’s political war against the few pockets of media resistance he has encountered at Fox News and in the world of talk radio. Sending federal bureaucrats to meddle in newsroom affairs by conducting an alleged “study” will chill news coverage and make government-licensed broadcast media think twice about airing stories that place the Obama administration in a bad light.
To this end the Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with its “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs,” or CIN. Although the FCC is a regulatory body, not a research organization, it plans to send researchers to question reporters, editors, and station owners about how they decide which stories to run. In the spring a field test is set for Columbia, S.C.
The FCC intends to discover “the process by which stories are selected,” how often stations cover “critical information needs,” the media outlets’ “perceived station bias,” and “perceived responsiveness to underserved populations.” The phrase “underserved populations” is politically correct neo-Marxist jargon and a screaming red flag that some kind of quota system may be on its way...
Breitbart Inc. needs to embed a couple of reporters in the FCC to monitor the behaviors and policy decision making process occurring there.
This NOT good. There can be no other conclusion that he intends to control and dominate the MSM and plans to remove right wing news media. Next it will be radio talk shows. Mark my words if he goes unchecked. If the MSM cooperates with this it’s suicide.
The entire GOP caucus ought to be down at the Sou th Lawn fence of the White House denouncing this ...
...oh, was I dreaming?
Critical Information Needs?
Like the mandatory Two Minutes’ Hate?
You are witnessing the last phase of the Fabian Socialist's plan, a swift and forceful coup.
Why dosn’t he just call it the Ministry of Propaganda
Hello USSR red star on flag is next?.
I wonder if the Soviet Era Propagandists were as gleefully willing to be led down this path as our main stream media?
At least until they were TOLD what they had to write...
Hell...if that was the real intention, all they'd have to do is watch All The President's Men.
But, I suspect their real intention is not what they say. And I also suspect this missive come straight from the diseased brain of Valerie Jarrett.
“Nice broadcast license you gots there. Be a shame if sumptin’ was to happen to it.”
Look for the internet to surge with information from the new media as well as satilite radio.
Hey press, how does it feel when your Constitutional right gets stomped on?
Yours truly,
A gun owner
Sounds like another Obama czar and fetters to me.
As if they aren’t already there???
I think the ones that are already there might be having difficulty keeping a wrap on the dead fish, so now it is time for some official out of the closet government officials with their hammers to make an appearance.
Civil disobedience should be conducted against these “researchers” just like the civil rights era civil disobedience which the Marxist so love.
I would hope that Fox and talk radio would resist any questions put to them and refuse to fill out any documents that are put in front of them. What will the FCC do to them, shut them down? That would be a blatant violation of the right to free speech.
It will be interesting to see what comes of this in the coming months.
If history is our guide, they will use the FCC to target their enemies like they used the IRS.
Rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies.
They forgot to say that their friends and enemies are domestic. They don’t concern themselves with this country’s friends and enemies.
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