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FCC Chief: We're Not Going to Police Your Newsroom
The National Journal ^ | Friday, February 21, 2013 | Laura Ryan

Posted on 02/21/2014 8:03:41 AM PST by kristinn

The head of the Federal Communications Commission is trying to douse Republican accusations that his agency is trying to covertly police the editorial decisions of TV news.

In a letter to senior House Republicans released Thursday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said the agency "has no intention of regulating political or other speech of journalists or broadcasters."

Republicans have picked at an FCC study introduced last spring on "critical information needs" that is intended to examine barriers of entry into the news media industry for small businesses. The study's inquiry included questions such as: "What is the news philosophy of the station?" and "Who decides which stories are covered?"

The FCC is required by law to conduct such research studies, but the commission's critics say this one was an initial foray into an effort to regulate newsrooms' editorial decisions.

Link to PDF of FCC letter.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cin; fcc; firstamendment; obama; pressminders; propagandapolice; tomwheeler
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To: dragonblustar
FCC Chief: We're Not Going to Police Your Newsroom

"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."

61 posted on 02/21/2014 9:52:47 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: OneWingedShark

Well said! Besides, that way, the commie sponsors would no longer have to pay for the same content.


62 posted on 02/21/2014 9:53:54 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop
In the first couple of years, communist governments may allow for a token opposition to maintain a facade of democracy. During the dictatorship of Lenin, monarchists were immediately suppressed. As the Bolsheviks defeated the White forces, they cracked down on anarchists, social democrats, extreme leftists (equivalent to the Levellers in Cromwell's England), and liberals (in the Lockean and Jeffersonian sense). On the religious front, they immediately attacked the Russian Orthodox Church, then later turned their guns on the minority religions that were not pillars of the old regime but still represented dissenting thought.

Mao, Castro, and the dictators that dominated Eastern Europe after World War II followed similar patterns: deal with your primary enemies first, then go after dissenters of any sort. The one difference is that Obama will go away in three years. However, the ruling elite will have another talking head: Hillary Clinton or John Kerry if they feel a less extreme politician will work to keep the middle of the road and low information voters sedated; Bill de Blasio or Elizabeth Warren if they want an openly radical spokesperson to rouse the rabble. Their strategy is to neutralize the broadcast media first, like Fox and conservative talk radio, then work their way through non-leftist media of any sort. Then they will openly attack the churches, first the evangelical denominations and the Catholic Church, then other religions.

63 posted on 02/21/2014 9:55:31 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Doogle

The only outlet reporting this that I have seen is Fox. Has anyone seen it anywhere else?


64 posted on 02/21/2014 9:58:58 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Wallace T.

In 1956 the Communist Party of China encouraged the people to express their feelings of the communists openly.

“The policy of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science.” - Mao

After this brief period of liberalization, Mao abruptly changed course. The crackdown continued through 1957 as an Anti-Rightist Campaign against those who were critical of the regime and its ideology. Those targeted were publicly criticized and condemned to prison labor camps. Mao remarked at the time that he had “enticed the snakes out of their caves.”


65 posted on 02/21/2014 10:00:07 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: null and void
Nooooo, “police” would imply lawful action....

Unh-unh. No. Nada. It is not legal for police officers to simply shoot people and animals to death.
66 posted on 02/21/2014 10:03:08 AM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

...the “other” news source are nothing but bootlickers


67 posted on 02/21/2014 10:06:26 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: righttackle44
Nahhh, 'sok if he or she feels threatened.

From behind.


68 posted on 02/21/2014 10:19:03 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: OneWingedShark

“Why would the government want to “police” its commie sponsors?”

Its very simple, strengthen the already vise like grip they have on the MSM and eliminate opposing voices. Remember the MSM is already on their side but in the event of a major unconstitutional violation they would have a way of enforcing compliance. They are strengthening the ministry of propaganda.


69 posted on 02/21/2014 10:39:11 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Maybe this should be the theme song for democrat FCC kommissars?

Hear the children, don’t turn around, oh oh
Der Kommissar’s in town, oh oh
He’s got the power and you’re so weak
And you’re frustration will not let you speak

Don’t turn around, oh oh
Der Kommissar’s in town, oh oh
And if he talks to you then you’ll know why
The more you live, the faster you will die

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w4Xulsjo5I


70 posted on 02/21/2014 10:41:29 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: TurboZamboni

Set up cameras in the newsroom with audio. Tape everyone (Government that enters and all they say.
Get the names of every government employee and Google search their home addresses and phone numbers.
All in the name of security.
Then broadcast their pictures, names, home numbers and addresses.


71 posted on 02/21/2014 10:57:04 AM PST by ozdragon
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To: kristinn

“FCC Chief: We’re Not Going to Police Your Newsroom”

“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period.”

“If you like your newsroom, you can keep your newsroom. If you like freedom of press, you can keep your freedom of press. Period.”


72 posted on 02/21/2014 11:06:21 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: kristinn

“Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.”—Otto von Bismarck


73 posted on 02/21/2014 11:09:07 AM PST by mykroar (We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. - Nathanael Greene)
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To: kristinn
. . . "the agency "has no intention of regulating political or other speech of journalists or broadcasters."

Yes, from the same regime that told us:

- if you like your healthcare, you can keep it.
- if you like your doctor, you can keep him/her.
- the average family will pay $2500 per year less.
- the IRS did not target conservatives.
- we did everything possible to save our people in Benghazi.
- the NSA is not spying on US citizens.

It's a frightening situation when your government lies to you so much.

It's even more frightening when something like 40% of the population likes being lied to.

74 posted on 02/21/2014 11:10:48 AM PST by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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To: kristinn

!


75 posted on 02/21/2014 11:11:07 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: OneWingedShark

I think at that time obama and the democrats would find that 200 million + guns in the hands of Americans right now will be used against the democrat party members.


76 posted on 02/21/2014 2:55:37 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound
I think at that time obama and the democrats would find that 200 million + guns in the hands of Americans right now will be used against the democrat party members.

Do you think so? Why?
Remember that the communications would be initially cut, perhaps even in-sync with the power, and those could be [rather easily] blamed on terrorism;
After all, how better to incite terror than cutting power and comms to a mid-size to largish city? Wouldn't that be an effective way to instill a panic?

77 posted on 02/21/2014 2:59:55 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

The regimes idea of normalized is something one must keep an eye n at all times.


78 posted on 02/22/2014 9:11:53 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz
The regime's idea of normalized is something one must keep an eye on at all times.

I suspect it's the normalized used here:
Interview with Yuri Bezmenov

79 posted on 02/22/2014 9:18:57 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

It looks like we are in the #2 mode now and the next three years depends on how the next election turns out.


80 posted on 02/22/2014 9:53:36 AM PST by Vaduz
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