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From the Wall Street Journal via Ace:
- Fcc Monitoring
From the Daily Caller (hat tip to Bunkerville): FCC to police news media, question reporters in wide-ranging content survey The Federal Communications Commission is planning a broad probe of political speech across media platforms, an unprecedented move...
- Making Sure The Lies Are Told Properly
Bloomberg: Media Protest U.S. Gov't Data Restrictions News media advocates told Congress the U.S. Labor Department’s plan to require journalists to use government equipment for reporting jobless figures and other economic data would violate press...
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A ‘Soviet-Style Power-Grab,’ to Squelch Bad Press for ObamaCare From Will at The Other News: The Department of Health and Human Services has released new guidelines on communications between department employees and the media. The guidelines...
- Now The Federal Goverment Is Looking At Taking Over News Organizations Too
They call it "support", and state that such help is "vital to Democracy". We have gotten to a place in history where it we are not surprised to find our government telling us it is vital to Democracy that news organizations be bribed. What kind of news...
- In All Fairness
Just because we're all paranoid around here doesn't mean they aren't coming for us, too. at The American Spectator h/t Gateway Pundit In All Fairness By The Prowler on 2.16.09 @ 6:09AM DOCTRINE AIR DEMOCRACY Senior FCC staff working for acting...
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The FCC Will Begin Investigating Bias In the Media (Conservative Bias)
Did you know we are ruled by TV?
From the Wall Street Journal via Ace:
News organizations often disagree about what Americans need to know. MSNBC, for example, apparently believes that traffic in Fort Lee, N.J., is the crisis of our time. Fox News, on the other hand, chooses to cover the September 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi more heavily than other networks. The American people, for their part, disagree about what they want to watch.
But everyone should agree on this: The government has no place pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories.
Unfortunately, the Federal Communications Commission, where I am a commissioner, does not agree. 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."
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.
The FCC also wants to wade into office politics. One question for reporters is: "Have you ever suggested coverage of what you consider a story with critical information for your customers that was rejected by management?" Follow-up questions ask for specifics about how editorial discretion is exercised, as well as the reasoning behind the decisions.
Participation in the Critical Information Needs study is voluntary—in theory. Unlike the opinion surveys that Americans see on a daily basis and either answer or not, as they wish, the FCC's queries may be hard for the broadcasters to ignore. They would be out of business without an FCC license, which must be renewed every eight years.
- Fcc Monitoring
From the Daily Caller (hat tip to Bunkerville): FCC to police news media, question reporters in wide-ranging content survey The Federal Communications Commission is planning a broad probe of political speech across media platforms, an unprecedented move...
- Making Sure The Lies Are Told Properly
Bloomberg: Media Protest U.S. Gov't Data Restrictions News media advocates told Congress the U.S. Labor Department’s plan to require journalists to use government equipment for reporting jobless figures and other economic data would violate press...
-
A ‘Soviet-Style Power-Grab,’ to Squelch Bad Press for ObamaCare From Will at The Other News: The Department of Health and Human Services has released new guidelines on communications between department employees and the media. The guidelines...
- Now The Federal Goverment Is Looking At Taking Over News Organizations Too
They call it "support", and state that such help is "vital to Democracy". We have gotten to a place in history where it we are not surprised to find our government telling us it is vital to Democracy that news organizations be bribed. What kind of news...
- In All Fairness
Just because we're all paranoid around here doesn't mean they aren't coming for us, too. at The American Spectator h/t Gateway Pundit In All Fairness By The Prowler on 2.16.09 @ 6:09AM DOCTRINE AIR DEMOCRACY Senior FCC staff working for acting...