"No German left behind in receiving der Fuehrer's latest tweets"
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is now engaged in a troubling new study of how news organizations report the news and if they are meeting the public's needs according to their own (FCC's) criteria as to topics covered.. One of their own commissioners, Ajit Pai, is sounding the alarm. Read the below Washington Examiner article by conservative commentator Byron York and check the link to Pai's own Wall Street Journal article on this move.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/new-obama-initiative-tramples-first-amendment-protections/article/2544363%23
"This study begins the charting of a course to a more effective delivery of necessary information to all citizens," said FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn in 2012. Clyburn, daughter of powerful House Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, was appointed to the FCC by President Obama and served as acting chair for part of last year. The FCC, Clyburn said, "must emphatically insist that we leave no American behind when it comes to meeting the needs of those in varied and vibrant communities of our nation -- be they native born, immigrant, disabled, non-English speaking, low-income, or other." (The FCC decided to test the program with a trial run in Ms. Clyburn's home state, South Carolina.)
I would guess that MSNBC won't even be queried. The Obama administration knows they have them in the bag. But there is something unsettling about a regulating government agency determining what is necessary for the citizens to know and make judgments as to whether news organizations are "delivering that necessary information".
This reeks of totalitarian thought control in its early stages.
*Update: FCC announces maybe it won't do that after all.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/21/fcc-backs-off-newsroom-survey-plan/?intcmp=latestnews
Another move by der Fuehrer to make everyone goosestep in time to his tune.
ReplyDeleteFunny how Obama is doing this. If it was Bush you could just hear the loud roar coming from the left. Today their silence is deafening.
You know of course the FCC has no jurisdiction over print media, and not much over the internet.
ReplyDeleteIt exists to regulate allocation and use of scarce and limited airwaves.
The news room, per se, is not subject to this initiative.
This looks more and more like Stalin's USSR every day. Too bad just too few of us see the consequences of this. The First Amendment of the Constitution prohibits the government from interfering with the printing and distribution of information or opinions.
ReplyDeleteThis situation is so bad, there should not be a single Democrat elected to public office in 2014 or 2016.
This is an object lesson of what kind of governance you get when you elect a liberal.
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Miggie is right! As the First Amendment reads: "Congress Shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievance."
ReplyDeleteThe FCC is not going into the Media or the News organizations to study. They are going into the organizations to intimidate, as the FCC holds the power to put them out of business. This is wrong and not constitutional. The organization actually conducting the "research" has not one smidgeon of journalistic skill or familiar with the workings of print media. This organization studies HIV, socioeconomic groups and international social solutions for the welfare of underserved populations. This group is out for "social justice". Does that ring a bell.
The U.S. House of Representatives must create a Bill that will restrict this study and not give the FCC a dime to fund it. This would uphold the First Amendment.
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Another of His Majesty Obama to control the people of the US. Sounds like communism and Nazi tactics to me. we will be burning books soon and rewriting history. freedom of choice for health care was first now he tries to control the news. What will be next. this government is out of control.
ReplyDeleteThe FCC must be reading Fousesquak, as they cancelled the "Research" study. Good news!
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Miggie wouldn't know Stalin's USSR from a beer festival.
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