Obama to monitor newsrooms

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

This should be interesting.

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 under served populations."

How does the FCC plan to dig up all that information? First, the agency selected eight categories of "critical information" such as the "environment" and "economic opportunities," that it believes local newscasters should cover. It plans to ask station managers, news directors, journalists, television anchors and on-air reporters to tell the government about their "news philosophy" and how the station ensures that the community gets critical information.

[steve dave]

One step closer to Hitler, amirite?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[OK_Cat]

 

here's what they will find in a newsroom (if true!):  reporters go into work in the morning, look through yahoo! news, and then find a local spin.  In between that, they talk about sports and where they are going to go party that night.

YOU'RE WELCOME, OBAMA.

[Brock Landers]

Wait, I thought Liberals already controlled the media?   

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

You guys have zero imagination.

[steve dave]

You guys have zero imagination.

I HAVE SHITLOADS 

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

You guys have zero imagination.

I HAVE SHITLOADS 

really?  Hitler?

[Paul Moscow]

seems to me republicans would like a study like this as it would prove that the fairness doctrine is still no longer needed 

[ChiComCat]

Meh, seems like questions that need to be asked but the FCC probably isn't the best organization to ask them.  Regardless, I will save the outrage for when there is something to be outraged about.

[Paul Moscow]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/21/conservative-backlash-kills-fcc-plan-to-survey-americas-newsrooms/

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Look at all the police state liberals