Posted on 05/18/2015 9:36:51 AM PDT by John Semmens
Citing the “especially grievous slant that FOX gives to the news,” President Obama called for “better policing of the public airways to prevent this intellectual pollution.”
“When I see how FOX is constantly undermining what I am trying to do for America by pointing out every flaw and defect of my policies I feel sorry for America,” the President said. “How can our people be joyful if their TVs are parading so-called failures in front of them in their own living rooms?”
“The abuse of freedom of the press and freedom of speech for the purpose of destroying faith in government is seditious,” Obama contended. “We should not sit by and let this go out of some reverence for the outmoded ideas of America’s founders. New times require new rules if we are to promote the general welfare.”
An idea that is starting to gain some traction inside the Administration is to employ the Federal Communications Commission to “fact check” all news broadcasts. “We owe it to the American people to ensure that the news they receive is accurate,” said FCC Chairman Thomas Wheeler. “No one has the right to inject inaccurate information or disloyal opinions into the nation’s communication system. The FCC has a wide range of tools it can and should use to clean up what is broadcast, transmitted, or posted to the web. My biggest regret is that we let things go too far and had to be reminded by the President to do our duty.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://azconservative.org/2015/05/16/feds-warn-lenders-not-to-deny-loans-to-welfare-recipients/
The President should make a ministry of information to disseminate the truth and combat the lies of Fox News.
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IMHO
Obama can always start a government-owned television network and use it to disseminate any kind of news spin he likes.
Oh wait. One already exists.
Unfortunately for him, we consumers of the news are not locked into four stations and PBS like in the days of analog TV. And then there is the Internet....
And I am sure that they will vigorously “fact check” the MSM, MSNBC, CNN. No doubt at all. /sarc.
[ And I am sure that they will vigorously “fact check” the MSM, MSNBC, CNN. No doubt at all. /sarc. ]
Oh they will at first when it is “rolled out”... but as the months pass by they will fact check them less and less or they will have the MSM make silly mistakes like speeling errors they will fact check while outright censoring the conservative new sites and channels....
I didn’t know Obama was doing anything FOR America,but I do notice a lot he is doing TO America.
Exactly. And what happens if an “error” is found? And what happens if it is proven that the fact checkers were wrong. Etc.
And would this extend beyond the traditional media sources into the blogosphere?
John Kerry to the rescue! Let the UN regulate the news.
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