Posted on 02/20/2014 7:15:35 AM PST by KeyLargo
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Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
The Obama Administration’s Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is poised to place government monitors in newsrooms across the country in an absurdly draconian attempt to intimidate and control the media.
Before you dismiss this assertion as utterly preposterous (we all know how that turned out when the Tea Party complained that it was being targeted by the IRS), this bombshell of an accusation comes from an actual FCC Commissioner.
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai reveals a brand new Obama Administration program that he fears could be used in “pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories.”
As Commissioner Pai explains in the Wall Street Journal:
(Excerpt) Read more at aclj.org ...
“My question is who’s going to stop it?”
WE will have to stop it, and it won’t be pretty. I hope you’re ready, on every level.
The Progressives censor control has been going on for a long time. State run media will not allow critics of their Leftists views to have any opposing voice in print or otherwise.
A Times: We Don’t Publish Letters to Editor Claiming Man Isn’t Causing Climate Change
By Noel Sheppard | October 6, 2013
It’s one thing for a news outlet to advance the as yet unproven theory of anthropogenic global warming; it’s quite another to admit that you won’t publish views that oppose it.
As amazing as it may same, that’s exactly what the Los Angeles Times did Saturday in an article by editorial writer Jon Healey:
Nothing happened at Waco. It was at Mt. Carmel. Waco just happened to have been the closest town large enough to lodge the msm.
Our side isn't doing anything either.
A couple months ago, he placed a monitor in the MSNBC.
Meet the FCC Commissioner Who’s Blowing the Whistle on His Own Agency’s Planned Study of Newsrooms
Feb. 20, 2014 9:38pm Jason Howerton
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai is warning against his own agency’s planned study of America’s newsrooms, saying “government doesn’t have a place in the newsroom.”
(Credit: www.arrl.org)
Appearing on Greta Van Susteren’s TV show on Thursday, Pai explained that under the planned study the FCC would oversee an outside contractor as researchers gathered information. The study would seek to “figure out why they cover the stories that they do,” Pai said.
The FCC commissioner went public with the story because he says he was “concerned about what this implicated for our First Amendment values.”
Following the public outcry, the head of the FCC promised to remove questions about “news philosophy and editorial judgement,” however, Pai is still against the study and has concerns about what it would mean to press freedom.
“You’d have to be out of your mind to have proposed this in the first place,” Van Susteren said.
Pai, a government official, then proclaimed that the “government doesn’t have a place in the newsroom.” He also revealed that study was designed and adopted under previous leadership.
Watch the segment here:
How Free Is Our Free Press?
February 16, 2014
According to the World Press Freedom Index, we’re getting less free all the time.
If it wasn’t enough to see the United States slide in four rankings of economic freedom, Internet liberty, and government transparency last year, the Land of the Brave and Home of the Free (except where prohibited by law) is off to a swell start in 2014 by slipping 13 places on the World Press Freedom Index. Compiled by Reporters Without Borders, the Index keeps a running tally of governments’ respect for journalistic freedoms on matters ranging from legislative restrictions to outright whacking of reporters. The U.S. has taken a hit largely from the post-9/11 insistence on fetishizing claims of “national security” (Rep. Mike Rogers now wants to criminalize the publication of sensitive information like that released by Edward Snowden) and from the Obama administration’s crusade against whistleblowers....
http://www.militianews.com/free-free-press/
Yes, it has been done before. But the model, here, is the Nazi model, not the Bolshevik.
............... Hitler allowed private ownership to continue, but assigned ideological thugs to intimidate the businessmen into being agents of the monolithic State. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
AGREED 100% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many of us knew Obama was a fascist in 2008 and tried to warn, but to no avail. Now the Chickens are indeed coming home to roost.
I can see the IRS audits coming now, to those people in the news who do not demostate the proper degree of kleftist political correctness ( awareness.)The FCC will be taking names and sending them to the Obama thug machine.
Barrack Obama: The Quintessential Fascist (Great Read):
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
LOL,
Nice one, Sarge. :D
Maybe we need an ‘Obamacare’ for the media industry,
Now that *they* took over our healthcare and it’s worked out great, it shows how they could really improve news reporting.
For the public interest.
Yeah, but we could also do better...
There’s a better democrat?
Paper’s are private. They can publish or not publish anything they want. I have no problem with that... and yeah, as conservatives we should guilt trip them at every opportunity. But I NEVER want us to have control over what they print or the government to have control over what they print.
Not in a free society - not ever.
If the LA Times wants to be stupid - it’s their right. Our response - STOP BUYING THEIR PRODUCT is the one that will work best in the long run.
You have found the ONLY reason they would bother. It's something so heavy-handed even MSM liberals would object. That's means dems original time line is around a year away. It takes time for minders to have effect... a year should do it.
I also think there might be another IRS scandal...
Low level IRS agents releases negative (and later proven false) information about Republicans RIGHT BEFORE AN ELECTION. It's a tactic Obama and dems used in Chicago (I don't know if they used the IRS - no one knew where the dirt came from - but it's the pattern ... )
I'll get the link.
http://nypost.com/2014/02/22/christine-odonnell-i-was-a-victim-of-the-irs/
“That these records ended up in the hands of the press is just a coincidence, the IRS claims.
To add insult to injury, the tax records given to the reporters weren’t even accurate. I had never fallen behind on my taxes, and a supposed tax lien was on a house I no longer owned.”
Not for this purpose... guess I should have gone back to what you were commenting on...
:)
WND exclusive:
The Federal Communications Commission in 2012 launched a study that concluded the agency must “devote greater attention” to ensuring that news media organizations have a “diversity” of ownership and meet the public’s “critical information needs,” WND has learned.
The study, titled “Review of the Literature Regarding Critical Information Needs of the American Public,” was presented to the FCC at an official agency event June 26, 2012...
[snip]
WND exclusive [noted above]
The newsroom snooping was done in the name of ‘diversity’.
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