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Obama Administration’s Plan to Study Newsrooms Is Drawing Plenty of Public Opposition
The Blaze ^
| 2/19/2014
| Fred Lucas
Posted on 02/19/2014 5:18:47 PM PST by Beave Meister
A plan by the Federal Communications Commission to study how news organizations select stories has prompted about 10,000 people to sign a petition saying no government monitors in newsrooms.
Thats according to the American Center for Law and Justice, which announced the petition Wednesday and said it reached that number within the first two hours.
The agency announced a Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs last year, explaining that it wanted to understand the process of which stories are selected, station priorities, content production, populations served, perceived station bias, and perceived percent of news dedicated to each of the critical information needs (CINs) in a community, Fox News reported.
Obama Administrations Plan to Study Newsrooms Is Drawing Plenty of Public Opposition
In the light of the setting sun President Barack Obama speaks about drought while on a farm in Los Banos, Calif., Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. But Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the ACLJ, a conservative legal group, worries it could be used to intimidate certain news organizations into covering issues that government officials feel are important.
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To: Beave Meister
They need not even go to the news rooms ... just email, fax or phone over instructions ... if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
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posted on
02/19/2014 6:34:41 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(On a good day Slow Joe doesn't do anything incredibly stupid ... waiting for that first good day!)
To: Beave Meister
If I were the owner of Fox, I would say:
“You are not welcome here and your presence is NOT a legal condition of my license.”
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posted on
02/19/2014 6:38:19 PM PST
by
G Larry
To: Beave Meister
Oppressors should be evicted via baseball bat.....
...lest they outlaw bats.....
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posted on
02/19/2014 6:39:58 PM PST
by
G Larry
To: Beave Meister
Make this a true year of action: Impeach Soetoro-Obama in 2014, PERIOD.
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posted on
02/19/2014 6:41:19 PM PST
by
Graewoulf
(Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
I have money that says FoxNews will be the first one to feel Obama’s foot on their neck. So much for the First Amendment.
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posted on
02/19/2014 6:52:14 PM PST
by
ANGGAPO
(Layte Gulf Beach Club)
To: Beave Meister
Given that 95% of today's Propaganda Directorate is staffed by seditious communist-fellating presstitutes, mØnkeyboy's commissars won't have much to do but keep the kneepads stocked.
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posted on
02/19/2014 6:52:17 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: ANGGAPO
You’re right. That’s a given. I imagine Barry’s “monitors” will just sit around with the clowns at the other cable news networks smoking dope and talking about when they are going to “come out.”
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posted on
02/19/2014 6:59:01 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(As government expands, liberty contracts. - President Ronald W. Reagan)
To: Beave Meister
perceived station bias, and perceived percent of news dedicated to each of the critical information needsThe junta's perception can be rather nebulous.
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posted on
02/19/2014 7:07:26 PM PST
by
Excellence
(All your database are belong to us.)
To: Beave Meister
So now the government is sending content monitors into newsrooms. Bye bye, First Amendment.
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posted on
02/19/2014 7:19:25 PM PST
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
The Bill of Rights isn't dead yet. The 3rd amendment is not being threatened.*ahem*
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posted on
02/19/2014 7:53:28 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: All
Megyn Kelly is really upset. In fact, I don’t think she’s even skipping across the set anymore.
The obama lover “news” folks are learning what they’d already knew if they studied history just a little bit. Eventually they come for you.
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posted on
02/19/2014 9:02:38 PM PST
by
VerySadAmerican
(".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
To: Beave Meister
I just want to know *WHO* thought up this idiotic scheme?
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posted on
02/19/2014 10:33:41 PM PST
by
Daffynition
("If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." ~ Henry Ford)
To: Beave Meister
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posted on
02/19/2014 10:35:37 PM PST
by
Dr.Deth
To: Beave Meister
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posted on
02/20/2014 5:07:27 AM PST
by
devolve
(- a 3 year boy on TV news today : "Please Jesus make it warm!" -)
To: jetson
Yeah, but if they control what news comes out, the news out of the Ukraine and Venezuela will be omitted.
Already happening to news from the Texas/Mexico border.
NONE of the going ons from that border region make it out of the RGV. NONE.
To: Beave Meister
At last, we are getting down to some serious Communism before the mid-term elections.
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:59:05 PM PST
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: Beave Meister
At last, we are getting down to some serious Communism before the mid-term elections.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:04:36 PM PST
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:52:33 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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