Posted on 02/21/2014 7:38:11 AM PST by Innovative
The FCC is launching a new study, taking upon itself the task of deciding what news the public “needs” to hear, versus the news the public wants to hear. The agency will conduct a “General Population Survey” that will “measure community members’ actual and perceived critical information needs.”
Got that? What you think (perceive) you need to know is different from what the government says you need to know.
Next, the FCC will send monitors to newsrooms across the country who will ask questions regarding the “philosophy” of the newsroom, inquire about possible conflicts between reporters and their bosses, and even determine how much influence each individual has in deciding what to report.
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Why would he need to do that?
98% of them would literally fellate him in public if he asked them to.
He is simply trying to do to the media what he has already done to the healthcare system.
OBAMA’S TOTALITARIAN COMPULSION
Following on the steps of Castro and Maduro, Obama is tightening his grip on the press, not conformed controlling 95% of the media, Obama is pushing towards the control of the whole 100%.
According to the international group “Reporters Without Borders” Index of Press Freedom the U.S. ranked 46, falling 13 places from last year.
Great Britain ranks 33, France 39, and Germany 14. Eastern European countries that were once under Soviet domination do fairly well, as the Czech Republic is ranked 13 and Poland is ranked 19.
The top three countries are Finland, Netherlands and Norway.
is obama trying to kill the 5% of the press that isn’t living in his colon?
Ukraine - coming to a city near you.
The current mass media has been in love with Obama since 2006.
Now that some of them are finally seeing him for what he is, was & always will be, they are trying to censure what we get from the media.
Most of us have already put the media into the category of ‘we don’t trust you’.
Now, Obama wants to silence even the tripe we do get from the alphabet channels.
“Is Obama trying to kill a free press?”
The premise of the question is absurd as it assumes a free press is alive.
The “free” press wandered into the compound.
baraq is about to slam the gate shut.
What’s the plan when one shows up, Jim?
I have a feeling this may be a line in the sand for people.
EXACTLY!Obongo is trying to KILL THE US CONSTITUTION!!!!!
“FCC Monitor” = Communist Political Commissar.
If Congress has any real desire to lead America they would impeach on this alone.
Looks like the NSA wants to nip it in the bud before any transmission of news takes place?.
CHANGE it’s happening.
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