Behold the Obama administration’s creepy plan to put FCC monitors in America’s newsrooms
Hey, you know what’s a pain in the rump for the ruling class? That pesky “freedom of the press,” that’s what. Reporters can investigate whatever they want, and then they can just go ahead and put those reports on the air. That means that someone might discover the horrible things politicians are doing, and they might even decide to run the story.
If only there was a way for Obama’s FCC to get the First Amendment under control.
From Mediaite:
An FCC commissioner is warning people about an agency study that would bring government monitors into newsrooms and inspect issues like the amount of time spent on the “critical information needs” [CIN’s] of Americans in news content.
:clap: classic
Of course, this means that the FCC will have to determine what the “correct” context is so that they can decide if it was presented properly by TV and radio stations. Perhaps even more disturbing is the fact that the monitors would be sent to newspapers as well - organizations over which the FCC has no regulatory authority.
Whether you hail from the right or the left, you’d have to be blind as a bat not to see the potential for abuse here.
A report from Fox News - an outlet President Obama blames for his ongoing failure
- appears below.
..."After the major crackdown on the streets of major (and minor) Venezuelan cities last night, I expected some kind of response in the major international news outlets this morning. I understand that with an even bigger and more photogenic freakout ongoing in an even more strategically important country, we weren’t going to be front-page-above-the-fold, but I’m staggered this morning to wake up, scan the press and find…
Nothing.
As of 11 a.m. this morning, the New York Times World Section has…nothing."...
Rick wrote: to put FCC monitors in America’s newsrooms.
Behold the Obama administration’s creepy plan to put FCC monitors in America’s newsrooms
Hey, you know what’s a pain in the rump for the ruling class? That pesky “freedom of the press,” that’s what. Reporters can investigate whatever they want, and then they can just go ahead and put those reports on the air. That means that someone might discover the horrible things politicians are doing, and they might even decide to run the story.
If only there was a way for Obama’s FCC to get the First Amendment under control.
From Mediaite:
An FCC commissioner is warning people about an agency study that would bring government monitors into newsrooms and inspect issues like the amount of time spent on the “critical information needs” [CIN’s] of Americans in news content.
:clap: classic
Of course, this means that the FCC will have to determine what the “correct” context is so that they can decide if it was presented properly by TV and radio stations. Perhaps even more disturbing is the fact that the monitors would be sent to newspapers as well - organizations over which the FCC has no regulatory authority.
Whether you hail from the right or the left, you’d have to be blind as a bat not to see the potential for abuse here.
A report from Fox News - an outlet President Obama blames for his ongoing failure
- appears below.
