o-bama Administration Embeds "Government Researchers" To Monitor Media Organizations
[T]he Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to roll out something called the Critical Information Needs study, which will embed government “researchers” into media organizations - around the nation - to make sure - they are doing their job properly.
The purpose of the CIN, according to the FCC, is to ferret out information from television and radio broadcasters about “the process by which stories are selected” and how often stations cover “critical information needs,” along with “perceived station bias” and “perceived responsiveness to underserved populations.”
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Whenifhow wrote:
This is an old story that created a firestorm of complaints from even the msm.
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The story before was that they were floating the idea of having monitors in the newsrooms.
Now they are actually ready to roll it out. From the article:
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.
Thanks, Whenifhow.