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FCC cancels newsroom study after backlash from lawmakers
Los Angeles Times ^ | February 28, 2014 | Joe Flint

Posted on 03/01/2014 4:48:36 AM PST by abb

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To: ResisTyr

Typo... Shudnt = Shocking!


21 posted on 03/01/2014 5:39:14 AM PST by ResisTyr ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God " ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: abb

There is a very simple way to kill this, and similar acts, once and for all.

Have the Federal Bureaucracy that proposed this action come to Congress and bring ALL of the correspondence with them. If they hold back any correspondence they are immediately defunded for 18 months - no appeals.

Then for each person listed on those documents will testify before Congress, no 5th Amendment cloaking actions, where the idea came from and what part of it is supported by the Constitution and then existing Federal Statues. Failure to testify or provide the links suggested above results in a 6 month suspension. Internally generated bureaucratic justification not approved by Congress is not acceptable.

If the Federal Bureaucracy in question can not produce correspondence with names and titles on them this failure will be viewed the same as not providing the required documents in the first place and will result in an immediate defunding for 18 months - no appeals.

A significant part of problems like this is Congress has abandoned its oversight for “funner things to do” and everyone involved needs to be jerked up HARD.


22 posted on 03/01/2014 5:42:17 AM PST by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: abb

They will keep bringing it up, each time with more and more championing from the press each time.


23 posted on 03/01/2014 5:57:05 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: abb
This simply cannot be ignored as dead. It should be all over the media. Is it? (I do not watch MSM)

I actually have family connections to Mignon Clyburn (FCC Commissioner). She was a former State of SC agency head, I believe. Her dad was head of the SC State Human Affairs Commission. Her mother is a very nice lady. I really don't think this proposal came from her. <

This proposal to have government monitors in the newsroom is so odious in a free society that w need to know who originated this proposal and exactly what they state was their purpose.

24 posted on 03/01/2014 6:06:37 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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They'll be back.
If the Left knows nothing else, it's how to bide their time.
25 posted on 03/01/2014 6:12:32 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: abb

If FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai hadn’t blown the whistle on this it might well have gone unnoticed until the FCC was ready to make final rules controlling the press. It is scary that the FCC, certainly at the direction of White House trolls, would be so bold as to openly violate the First Amendment. I fear were are rapidly becoming a totalitarian police state.


26 posted on 03/01/2014 7:17:56 AM PST by The Great RJ
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FCC cancels newsroom study

Yeah, sure they did...

27 posted on 03/01/2014 7:19:21 AM PST by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: abb

Bet not have bugs will install.


28 posted on 03/01/2014 7:35:50 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Nip

This must be throughly investigated. It is an attack on the constitution. It cannot just be assumed to be DEAD.


29 posted on 03/01/2014 7:53:53 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: NittanyLion
Per the article the intent was to assess what “information needs citizens have and whether they are being met”.

Did it ever dawn on the FCC the ratings at CNN, MSNBC and the alphabets are a clue?

30 posted on 03/01/2014 10:29:23 AM PST by QT3.14 (Anagram: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA = An Arab Backed Imposter)
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