Saturday, February 22, 2014

Government Intimidating the Press........

....is never a good idea. Mostly because the majority of the commie/liberal press is already doing propaganda for the liberal democrats. For the most part I'm sure the study will just verify what most Americans know already, that most major news outlets follow the party line.

New Obama initiative tramples First Amendment protections
The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…" But under the Obama administration, the Federal Communications Commission is planning to send government contractors into the nation's newsrooms to determine whether journalists are producing articles, television reports, Internet content, and commentary that meets the public's "critical information needs." Those "needs" will be defined by the administration, and news outlets that do not comply with the government's standards could face an uncertain future. It's hard to imagine a project more at odds with the First Amendment.
The initiative, known around the agency as "the CIN Study" (pronounced "sin"), is a bit of a mystery even to insiders. "This has never been put to an FCC vote, it was just announced," says Ajit Pai, one of the FCC's five commissioners (and one of its two Republicans). "I've never had any input into the process," adds Pai, who brought the story to the public's attention in a Wall Street Journal column last week.
Advocates promote the project with Obama-esque rhetoric. "This study begins the charting of a course to a more effective delivery of necessary information to all citizens," said FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn in 2012. Clyburn, daughter of powerful House Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, was appointed to the FCC by President Obama and served as acting chair for part of last year. The FCC, Clyburn said, "must emphatically insist that we leave no American behind when it comes to meeting the needs of those in varied and vibrant communities of our nation -- be they native born, immigrant, disabled, non-English speaking, low-income, or other." (The FCC decided to test the program with a trial run in Ms. Clyburn's home state, South Carolina.)
The FCC commissioned the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Communication and Democracy to do a study defining what information is "critical" for citizens to have. The scholars decided that "critical information" is information that people need to "live safe and healthy lives" and to "have full access to educational, employment, and business opportunities," among other things.
The study identified eight "critical needs": information about emergencies and risks; health and welfare; education; transportation; economic opportunities; the environment; civic information; and political information.
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Of course the best way to make sure that the news follows the party line is to involve commie and liberal infested universities and their socialist journalism departments to insure the proper thoughts are being disseminated.
How Orwellian of them.
If I were of a conspiratorial bent the first thought that would have come to my mind is that the Obama administration kinda suggested this to the FCC in order to silence FOX news and conservative radio.
Obama wouldn't play dirty politics or lie to us....would he?
The democrats have control of the majority of the media and now are basically so emboldened by conservatives inability to counter them that they don't even try to hide it any more.

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