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Sunday, February 23, 2014

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION ATTEMPTS TO MONITOR NEWSROOM ACTIVITIES~FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AT RISK




UPDATE FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Iron Fisted FCC Trampling First Amendment:


Published on Feb 24, 2014
Alex covers the continued repression of the media by the FCC, first with their attempt to place Gov Watchdogs in News rooms and now a Democratic Congressman threatening to revoke FCC licenses of stations that run "julie's Story" the controversial new anti-Obamacare ad.

Greta Van Interviews FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai - " Government Doesn't Have a Place in the Newsroom ":

Published on Feb 20, 2014



2-20-14 - (Fox News) - FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai brought people's attention to a planned FCC study to study U.S. newsrooms and warned about its First Amendment implications. Pai joined Greta Van Susteren on Thursday to speak out further, saying there is a danger in giving the government oversight of a free press. It's not the FCC directly conducting the study, it's an outside contractor, but these researchers will be going, at the behest of the regulatory agency, into newsrooms to "figure out why they cover the stories that they do," Pai explained, and he said he went public because he was "concerned about what this implicated for our First Amendment values." Pai told Van Susteren that the questions about "news philosophy and editorial judgment" will be taken out, as per new statements today by the head of the FCC, but even with that, Van Susteren said, "You'd have to be out of your mind to have proposed this in the first place." Pai agreed that "government doesn't have a place in the newsroom," and while the FCC has an authority to report on "barriers" to news access, he argued that thanks to the "unparalleled amount of choice" people have for media consumption, there are fewer barriers to media access than ever.



Glenn Beck Blasts Obama's Media Takeover (Video):
Published on Feb 21, 2014

Glenn Beck Blasts Obama's Media Takeover (Video) In the video below Glenn Beck makes an impassioned statement about the new FCC plan to "monitor" newsrooms across America with the intention of intimidating the media into reporting what the administration wants reported and hiding what it doesn't want made public.
Beck is not the one who originally suggests stations will be intimidated by government agents being placed into the newsrooms, no that came from acting FCC commissioner Ajit Pai, who took to the Wall Street Journal op-ed pages to rip the lid off of Obama's attempt to create a state run media propaganda machine out of all newsrooms and local stations.

 Via Ajit Pai: But everyone should agree on this: The government has no place pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories. Unfortunately, the Federal Communications Commission, where I am a commissioner, does not agree. 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.

                                   

SEE:

Government To Monitor Newsrooms:
Published on Feb 21, 2014

Judge Andrew Napolitano warns that the Obama's administration's plan to have FCC bureaucrats monitor newsrooms represents a "radical new era of tyranny" and would squash press freedoms.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/judge-nap...
http://www.prisonplanet.com/justice-g...

Obama's Newsroom Police Are Here!:
Published on Feb 21, 2014

Alex Jones talks with New York Times best-selling author Jerome Corsi about the troubling economic situation with the EU and the plan to bring this across the pond to crash the US economy. They also discuss the Obama Administration's recent plan to have FCC bureaucrats monitor newsrooms, and Judge Andrew Napolitano's accurate response saying that it represents a "radical new era of tyranny" and that it will squash press freedoms.
http://www.infowars.com/judge-napolit...

BREAKING: FCC Stonewalls Investigation Into 

Government Newsroom Hijacking; 

Won't Answer Questions When Called Repeatedly:
Published on Feb 21, 2014

Alex Jones and David Knight discuss the FCC's plan to install newsroom monitors/censors into communities across the country under the guise of helping women and minorities. The FCC plans to also look at newspapers, an area where they have zero control and over site. On Thursday, David Knight called the FCC representative listed on press release with some open questions about the project. He declined to answer any questions and sent him to a voicemail for the public office of media operations. Trying to get the government to answer some simple questions is like to trying to sign up for Obamacare.



Judge Napolitano: FCC Plan To Monitor News Coverage 

A 'Radical New Era Of Tyranny':

Jay Sekulow on Fox News: FCC to Monitor Newsrooms?:

White House Issues "Radical New Era of Tyranny":
Published on Feb 22, 2014

Judge Andrew Napolitano warns that the Obama's administration's plan to have FCC bureaucrats monitor newsrooms represents a "radical new era of tyranny" and would squash press freedoms.
http://www.infowars.com/judge-napolit...
Government domination of the American media? Media response: ho hum?:
See: 
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/vernon/140224


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