Here’s an article by the architect of the “study.”
The real story behind the FCC’s study of newsrooms
By Lewis Friedland
February 28 at 8:54 am
It is not dropped.
IT IS THE PLAN by the First Moslem Tyrant-by-Fraud.
They will continue quietly and, as usual, sent the IRS
upon, or just kill, anyone that stands in their
antiConstitutional way.
It wasn’t the lawmaker’s outrage, it was ours...and for a change, the media’s.
That is just it, they want you to think it is ‘killed.’
It is not, they will just do this from a distance and the report will be even more insidiously flawed and hatful.
What we should be doing is demanding the whole program be defunded.
For now are the operable terms. They will push this again if they get the chance. They never stop, whether it comes to gun control, gay rights or control over the media, they will not stop.
This is where Republicans need to adjust their line of thinking and accordingly, their lines of attack.
It was a decoy.
At least visibly. “Gee, there seems to be a problem with the paperwork for renewing you broadcast license. You’ll have to refile. Oh, and deadline was yesterday.” I can almost see/hear it now. Just like this sneaky backdoor admin. to do things like that. Or maybe some osha or epa issue or one of the myriad agencies.
Don’t count on it.
The FCC cancelled the study because it could have resulted in a very blatant violation of the First Amendment.
Nights and days of the living dead. $ocialist zombies keep coming through all agency doors.
DEFUND/DISMANTLE socialist/totalitarian collectives. Watch the zombies scream in agony and wither away. CRONY $OCIALI$M, big government (your $ and control of you) is their lifeblood.
DEPOPULATE socialist/totalitarian zombies from the body politic and your life.
Great thread BUMP! Thanks to all posters.
There is a very simple way to kill this, and similar acts, once and for all.
Have the Federal Bureaucracy that proposed this action come to Congress and bring ALL of the correspondence with them. If they hold back any correspondence they are immediately defunded for 18 months - no appeals.
Then for each person listed on those documents will testify before Congress, no 5th Amendment cloaking actions, where the idea came from and what part of it is supported by the Constitution and then existing Federal Statues. Failure to testify or provide the links suggested above results in a 6 month suspension. Internally generated bureaucratic justification not approved by Congress is not acceptable.
If the Federal Bureaucracy in question can not produce correspondence with names and titles on them this failure will be viewed the same as not providing the required documents in the first place and will result in an immediate defunding for 18 months - no appeals.
A significant part of problems like this is Congress has abandoned its oversight for “funner things to do” and everyone involved needs to be jerked up HARD.
They will keep bringing it up, each time with more and more championing from the press each time.
I actually have family connections to Mignon Clyburn (FCC Commissioner). She was a former State of SC agency head, I believe. Her dad was head of the SC State Human Affairs Commission. Her mother is a very nice lady. I really don't think this proposal came from her. <
This proposal to have government monitors in the newsroom is so odious in a free society that w need to know who originated this proposal and exactly what they state was their purpose.
If FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai hadn’t blown the whistle on this it might well have gone unnoticed until the FCC was ready to make final rules controlling the press. It is scary that the FCC, certainly at the direction of White House trolls, would be so bold as to openly violate the First Amendment. I fear were are rapidly becoming a totalitarian police state.
Yeah, sure they did...
Bet not have bugs will install.