Government monitors to be placed in newsrooms? This is FUBAR!

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[Streck-Fu]

Another source : Investors.com

Ajit Pai, a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission, warned this week in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that a plan to dispatch researchers into radio, television and even newspaper newsrooms called the "Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs" is still going forward, despite the grave danger it presented to the First Amendment.

Pai warned that under the rationale of increasing minority representation in newsrooms, the FCC, which has the power to issue or not issue broadcasting licenses, would dispatch its "researchers" to newsrooms across America to seek their "voluntary" compliance about how news stories are decided, as well as "wade into office politics" looking for angry reporters whose story ideas were rejected as evidence of a shutout of minority views.

Pai questioned if such a study could really be voluntary, given FCC's conflict of interest (and, he might have added, the Obama record of going after political opponents).

The origin of the idea is a recrudescence of the Fairness Doctrine, inoperative since 1987 or so, to provide equal time to leftist points of view in broadcasting and other media that otherwise wouldn't have a willing audience in a free market.

It's an idea so fraught with potential for abuse it ought to have news agencies screaming bloody murder. The very idea of Obama hipsters showing up in newsrooms, asking questions and judging if newspapers (over which they have no jurisdiction), radio and TV are sufficiently diverse is nothing short of thought control.

But the reaction from the National Association of Broadcasters was mealy-mouthed. The FCC "should reconsider" "qualitative" sections of its study, it wrote.

The FCC now says it will be "closely reviewing the proposed research design to determine if an alternative approach is merited," as a result of Pai's warning. Adweek actually reported that as a "retreat."

It's because of this don't-rock-the-boat attitude that Reporters Without Borders said the U.S. had "one of the most significant declines" in press freedom in the world last year, dropping 13 places to a wretched 46th in its newly released global ranking. If the FCC has its way, it can drop even further.

[JJ_BPK]

Buy all the tin-foil stock you can get your hands on..

This is right out of Orwell's 1984.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949.

The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or, in the government's invented language, Newspeak, called Ingsoc) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrimes".

The tyranny is epitomised by Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist. Big Brother and the Party justify their oppressive rule in the name of a supposed greater good.

The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party who works for the Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue), which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism.

His job is to re-write past newspaper articles so that the historical record always supports the current party line.

Smith is a diligent and skilful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother

[cbtengr]

Just when you think you have heard it all, surely someone will challenge this.

[BryanK]

I wonder if they are hiring memory hole installers. Good side work

[Sdiver]

Originally Posted by cbtengr

Just when you think you have heard it all, surely someone will challenge this.

Someone will .... and don't call me Shirley.



Sorry, couldn't help myself. Back your regularly scheduled thread.

[Max_Tab]

Pretty soon each ODA will have a commisar, and if they make them females it'll be two birds with one stone. ..various thread points

[tonyz]

Government monitor, er, "researcher":

"Komrades...have we not heard enough of these 'phony scandals'

...Benghazi, IRS, NSA, Fast and Furious, ObamaCare failure, Solyndra, etc., etc., who can deny that these are OLD NEWS!

...Look Komrades, we are growing our glorious economy as we speak via food stamps and extended unemployment benefits...these, these are the stories you must share and...and when they awake the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Havana, where the sun is warm, and so is the...Komradeship."

[Pete]

Hey, if the news rooms have nothing to hide........

[ddoering]

This is good news imo. Perhaps now the news will quit giving these asshats a free ride.

[Remington Raidr]

Originally Posted by Max_Tab

Pretty soon each ODA will have a commisar, and if they make them females it'll be two birds with one stone. ..various thread points

I would go with zampolit. Commisar would be too high-ranking for a twelve-man team.

Nothing surprises me anymore.

[Badger52]

I thought the well-indoctrinated watchers were already in place...

[Max_Tab]

Originally Posted by Badger52

I thought the well-indoctrinated watchers were already in place...

I thought they were all married to people in the administration.

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by ddoering

This is good news imo. Perhaps now the news will quit giving these asshats a free ride.

I doubt they will realize what's happening until it's too late. Then we see more substations get hit, all around major socialist cities....

[Monsoon65]

Originally Posted by Max_Tab

Pretty soon each ODA will have a commisar, and if they make them females it'll be two birds with one stone. ..various thread points

I was thinking the same thing when I heard this. Wonder how long until units start getting commisars.