Figured this would be interesting for you all; found this somewhere and I'm just sort of forwarding it, but anyway....
If this is legit, I'm pretty speechless...
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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.
>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:
>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.
>The purpose of the CIN, according to the FCC, is to ferret out information from television and radio broadcasters about "the process by which stories are selected" and how often stations cover "critical information needs," along with "perceived station bias" and "perceived responsiveness to underserved populations."
http://aclj.org/free-speech-2/why-is-obama-administration-putting-government-monitors-in-newsrooms
Protip: To read the firewalled story in the WSJ, type 'The FCC Wades Into the Newsroom' into Google, then click on the first link that comes up. Presumably this is because the Wall Street Journal welcomes random hits on its web site, but thinks that charging you at the ass will make you stay. Anyway. Enjoy your daily dose of Chocolate Nixon's shenanigans.
If this is legit, I'm pretty speechless...
