Posted on 02/21/2014 1:49:14 PM PST by Timber Rattler
The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday that it was putting on hold a controversial study of American newsrooms, after complaints from Republican lawmakers and media groups that the project was too intrusive.
FCC spokeswoman Shannon Gilson said Chairman Tom Wheeler agreed with critics that some of the study's proposed questions for reporters and news directors "overstepped the bounds of what is required."
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Yeah, like we believe them.
NOTHING IS REQUIRED!
Yes, however they will come back with something else similar, there are few watchdogs and they can seemingly do as they please with impunity.
Translation: Waiting for all the hubbub to die down, then sneak it in with no announcement (and tell the media to not say a word).
Right. I believe them. You betcha.
The Greatest President of the past 120 years, Ronald Wilson Reagan said: “Trust but verify”.
I want to see concrete proof that there are NO “Political Officers” walking within 1,000 yards of any newsroom.
This indicates two vital things:
1) They can still BE backed down. This may not be a
permanent condition, but it opens a window.
2) They are not ready (yet) to “go to the mat” on
anything unimportant. Yet. They still fear a
large public blow-back.
These conditions will not last long.
“On hold” does not mean cancelled.
Repubs should demand the firing of those responsible, demand the entire notion be repudiated by the POS-IC.
No ... really ... I won’t do it ... I promise.
They’ll be back with something “less” intrusive. Like cameras on only the editors office or some other BS. This is how the libs start every tyrannical idea.
They nip at us little by little. The average dumbass falls for the “lesser” idea by saying, “it doesn’t matter to me. I don’t work in a newsroom.” or “someone needs to keep these people in order”.
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
Otto von Bismarck
They'll call it the Bo Snerdly Program Observer Service...
(We can call it a BS-POS)
I am looking to find these “eight categories of ‘critical information’ that we believe local newscasters should cover”, as the quoted study said.
They refer to CIN’s (Critical Information Needs) and how to manage them.
HERE’S A LITTLE GEM: “Data will be acquired from DateLine Media, a media monitoring corporation based in Honolulu,
Hawaii. “
The FCC will wait till the controversy blows over, then it will go ahead...probably when everyone is distracted by something else.
Yep, they will do it anyway, quietly
Correct.
Repubs should demand the firing of those responsible, demand the entire notion be repudiated by the POS-IC.
LOL — because the "opposition party" opposes what's going on?
No, they are complicit and there is no difference between the Republican and Democrat party.
IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FAR FUTURE THERE IS ONLY GOVERNMENT.
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Appendix E of the study lists the complete hit list of Internet sites that will be “crawled” to check on how CIN’s are being covered.
They monitor newspaper, television, local government public affairs sites, university portals, and some websites. Only sites in either AZ or NY are mentioned.
Similar to how the DHS backed off this week, on collecting nationwide license plate data, “to track undocumented immigrants”, after ICE said it had no knowledge of the program....
Here’s a partial list of the things they’re monitoring (what they call CIN’s):
* Health and welfare;
*Education - including information about schools;
*Transportation – including available options, schedules
and costs;
*Economic opportunities, including job openings, job training and information and small business assistance;
*Environment, including air and water quality, and access to parks and other recreation;
*Civic information, including what civic institutions and opportunities to associate with other people are
available;
*Political information, including information about candidates at all levels, information about public policy initiatives affecting your community and neighborhood...
They’ll be back.
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