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Offline mrclose

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Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« on: February 18, 2014, 07:20:12 PM »
Anyone see a problem brewing here?

How many 'monitors' will be assigned to Fox?

(lots more at the link within the snippet Wall Street Journal and at link below)

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The Obama Administration’s Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is poised to place government monitors in newsrooms across the country in an absurdly draconian attempt to intimidate and control the media.

Before you dismiss this assertion as utterly preposterous (we all know how that turned out when the Tea Party complained that it was being targeted by the IRS), this bombshell of an accusation comes from an actual FCC Commissioner.

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai reveals a brand new Obama Administration program that he fears could be used in “pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories.”

As Commissioner Pai explains in the Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304680904579366903828260732


Last May the FCC proposed an initiative to thrust the federal government into newsrooms across the country.


http://aclj.org/free-speech-2/why-is-obama-administration-putting-government-monitors-in-newsrooms
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2014, 07:31:50 PM »
WHAT???? Are they not liberal/leftist enough?
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2014, 07:37:31 PM »
Obama and the left would really like to bring back the (Un)Fairness Doctrine.  They know it would not be applied equally.
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2014, 07:38:22 PM »
and so it begins
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2014, 07:42:42 PM »
Quote from: Mr Mannn on February 18, 2014, 07:38:22 PM
and so it begins

Congress will investigate this so .. I'm not worried! :cheersmate:
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2014, 07:49:13 PM »
My apologies for the WSJ link being a pay site and that the full article cannot be seen there. :hammer:

You can google for other links using the article for key words .. I would guess?

(The aclj.org link is fully readable)
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2014, 07:58:59 PM »
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2014, 08:53:45 PM »
They are already in the MSM newsrooms.

When you hear all their hosts spout the same identical phrases all on the same day you know where they're getting their talking points from.

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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2014, 09:27:12 PM »
Quote from: Dori on February 18, 2014, 08:53:45 PM
They are already in the MSM newsrooms.

When you hear all their hosts spout the same identical phrases all on the same day you know where they're getting their talking points from.



Exactly, every Sunday the liberal talking heads on every show follow the same script almost word for word.
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2014, 09:31:47 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on February 18, 2014, 09:27:12 PM
Exactly, every Sunday the liberal talking heads on every show follow the same script almost word for word.

I've seen FOX string them all together in a video clip.  There is no mistaking the fact that they are all pumping out the same WH propaganda.

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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2014, 10:40:09 PM »
Reminds me of a joke I heard once. In Soviet Russia there were two television channels. Channel 1 consisted of nothing but programming made to praise the Party and the glory of communism.  Channel 2 had a man telling you to turn back to channel 1. It's coming. .
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2014, 10:56:52 PM »
It's all for our own good, comrades.

Quote from: No! on February 18, 2014, 10:40:09 PM
Reminds me of a joke I heard once. In Soviet Russia there were two television channels. Channel 1 consisted of nothing but programming made to praise the Party and the glory of communism.  Channel 2 had a man telling you to turn back to channel 1. It's coming. .

One of my favorites comes from that same vein of humor; in the USSR, there were two main organs of public information, "Pravda" ("[The] Truth") and "Izvestiya" ("[The] News") - the sardonic saying was that there was no news in truth in "The Truth" and no truth in "The News."
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2014, 10:59:17 PM »
Susan Rice. She got the televised word out about Benghazi. Where is she now ?
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2014, 12:58:43 PM »
The proposal is titled ”Research Design for the Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs,” and was released in April. The study was produced by a company called Social Solutions International, Inc.. SSI has been awarded hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in federal contracts. Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn said that the FCC has a “duty” to find out what news is being broadcast in the announcement she made on May 24, 2013. Mignon is the daughter of James Clybern, who is probably the loaded voice on the Left to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine".

 There is a lot more to this proposed "study" than to just check out TV & Radio news content and who/what/when/why/where/how that content is given to the public. The proposal for the study shows that they are doing the same thing with Newsprint media, Internet Media AND Blogs -- and then they will go into 'target' neighborhoods to "study" the people who get their news, what media they participate in (Facebook, twitter, blogs, neighbors, church, organizations, family) .... you name it, they want to know it. The study also proposes questions about voting/politics and all this is connected to Census Data and Demographics .... if fact, Demographics is the first thing they have to determine about each and every step of the process. They have to discover the Demographics of all the employees of all of the News Media. It points out that the "interviews" with the Media employees should be 'secret' once the correct people to interview have been determined.


http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db0524/DA-13-1214A2.pdf
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #14 on: February 19, 2014, 01:21:04 PM »
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the FCC has a “duty” to find out what news is being broadcast
 

Bullshit. They can listen and watch radio and TV if that is the goal. By putting monitors in the newsrooms, they are attempting to intimidate and influence what is being broadcast.
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2014, 01:22:37 PM »
Former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn once said; "If You Control The Message, You Control It All".

She also said one of her “favorite political philosophers,” is Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung.


Have they changed the name of our country to "Soviet Socialist Republic of America" yet ?   :rant:
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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2014, 01:44:55 PM »
Quote from: Dori on February 18, 2014, 08:53:45 PM
They are already in the MSM newsrooms.

When you hear all their hosts spout the same identical phrases all on the same day you know where they're getting their talking points from.



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Re: Why is the Obama Administration Putting Government Monitors in Newsrooms?
« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2014, 01:45:17 PM »
A prime example of Government pressure:

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Medical Center won’t let patients watch Fox News

 So you can imagine my surprise when I discovered a Michigan health care facility, funded by federal tax dollars, blocked Fox News Channel from its waiting room television sets.

 The president of Family Health Care directed staff to block Fox News after a board member complained about our network’s coverage of the Affordable Care Act, an employee told me.

 â€œThe board member complained that patients were turning the channel to Fox News,” said the employee who asked not to be identified for reasons related to the unemployment line. “They are pro-ObamaCare and they felt (Fox’s) stance did not mesh with our stance.”

 Family Health Care is a private, non-profit business that operates community health centers in five Michigan towns. According to the employee, the health centers have ObamaCare facilitators on site to help people apply for the program.

Medical Center won't let patients watch Fox News | Fox News

 â€œthe health centers have ObamaCare facilitators on site”

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/02/13/medical-center-wont-let-patients-watch-fox-news/


(thanks go out to ilovesarah2012 for the above)

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