Obama uses FCC to censor News Rooms says FCC Commissioner...

d2d

Last May the FCC proposed an initiative to thrust the federal government into newsrooms across the country. With its "Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs," or CIN, the agency plans to send researchers to grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run. A field test in Columbia, S.C., is scheduled to begin this spring.

This feels more and more like the old Soviet Union every day. tick, tick, tick...

online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304680904579366903828260732

SandyHooker

RaceBannon

It's real and any REAL liberal would be up in arms over it. Obama sycophants, not so much.

You place government agents in a newsroom and the government changes to republicans and you would be alarmed.

There are some honest liberals left out there who are on this issue. Not many, but a few.

DerekJohnson

This is the kind of stuff you would expect from the old Soviet Union, not America.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

How about they scrap what the article describes and bring back this?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

d2d

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

How about they scrap what the article describes and bring back this?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

How about you stick to the subject? Deflection is not appreciated by the Mods...

Kaepsknee

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

How about they scrap what the article describes and bring back this?



http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

So I'm assuming that you are buying the rationale of the FCC to invade newsrooms?

I mean... I for one can certainly see how telling newscasters what to report will make it easier for small entrepreneurs to enter the broadcast business.

d2d

salemcoog said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

How about they scrap what the article describes and bring back this?



http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

So I'm assuming that you are buying the rationale of the FCC to invade newsrooms?

I mean... I for one can certainly see how telling newscasters what to report will make it easier for small entrepreneurs to enter the broadcast business.

Is this sarcasm? Mods?

section8

This study has been proposed for almost a year and it's only news now? No way in hell that the FCC who controls broadcast licensing should be running a study like this.

Doesn't matter what your politics are, this is a terrible idea from the same people that introduced the "Fairness Doctrine" in the 1940's

Fire_Marshall_Bill

d2d said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

How about they scrap what the article describes and bring back this?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

How about you stick to the subject? Deflection is not appreciated by the Mods...

I proposed an alternate.
You need to learn the difference.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

salemcoog said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

How about they scrap what the article describes and bring back this?



http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

So I'm assuming that you are buying the rationale of the FCC to invade newsrooms?

I mean... I for one can certainly see how telling newscasters what to report will make it easier for small entrepreneurs to enter the broadcast business.

The Fairness Doctrine was in place for 38 years. Enlighten us as to how the country fell apart during those years.