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.
“On hold” does not mean cancelled.
Repubs should demand the firing of those responsible, demand the entire notion be repudiated by the POS-IC.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe we need a studay of the CRAP they are doing at the FCC.
Yet another agency that has become even more useless over time if not at the beginning.
Eliminate the FCC, Depts of Energy, Education, Housing, the EPA, Commerce, Transportation, etc.
All useless and a waste of money on bloated bureaucracies.
When I wrote articles for the local paper they were randomly edited for political correctness. Something that was politically unacceptable in one flew just fine in another one. There was no ryme or reason. I asked the editor for a list of what she looked for and her response was, “Oh, I just know it when I see it.” These were articles intended to feature the paper’s advertisers. Sometimes she’d take stuff out and tell me, “Oh, that was too pro-business.” (She was an old Volvo driving hippy from the ‘60’s and thought “business” and “profit” were bad words. I laughed when she got laid off because they weren’t making any “profit.”)
The sheer randomness of the censorship made it impossible to write even a single sentence. I’d self-sensor and end up with writer’s block. Finally, I decided to write the most outrageous stuff I could think of. That broke the writer’s block and some of it made it into print and some didn’t.
Just the thought that somebody with a known viewpoint is going to read something, especially somebody connected to the body regulating your business, would serve to self-sensor what they might not like.
Just *WHO* @ the FFC thought of this stupid idea...that’s what I want to know.
“...overstepped the bounds of what is required.”
Yep. Because NOTHING should be required. Check the First Amendment, and then find the clause in the US Constitution that authorizes fedgov to be in the ‘communications’ business in any way.
“putting on hold” means waiting until they can be slipped in under the radar. This is not good news. “Killed the plan” would be good news.
...and once under their rocks, the 'story' disappears, and the criminal perps are never identified and made accountable (like maybe fired?!
I am sick of this crap. Observe From ten days ago!:
Unfortunately, the Federal Communications Commission, where I am a commissioner, does not agree. 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. [Feb 10, 2014]
Oh by the Way is Anyone Paying Attention?
Where are our Conservative members of the House and the Senate?
Representing our interests or their own?
Why aren't they asking who originated this clearly unconstitutional abomination?
Not what office.
What individual?
Who originated this thing?
Who approved it?
Who allowed it to actually be implemented?
NAMES, DAMMIT!!!
Wake up, GOP!