White House to sniff out newsrooms.

So we have a Washington Times article regurgitating a Fox News report and a WSJ op-ed by a Republican member of the FCC and quotes from AEI and Pat Robertson's legal experts.

Nice.
 
aeprga said:
So we have a Washington Times article regurgitating a Fox News report and a WSJ op-ed by a Republican member of the FCC and quotes from AEI and Pat Robertson's legal experts.

Nice.
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So that means it is wrong? How insightful of you?

Just because you don't like the source doesn't mean the information is wrong
 
Looks like it must not be true since the source wasn't MSNBC or Daily KOS.



The US Federal Communications Commission announced it will pull back from an unpopular plan that proposed placing a federal agent inside newsrooms across the country, prompting media watchdogs to accuse the government of trying to restrict press freedom.


The FCC first announced the plan, known as the 'Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs,' (CIN) last year. It presented vague notions about how FCC officials would observe “the process by which stories are selected,” including notions of “perceived station bias” and “perceived responsiveness to underserved populations.”


Ajit Pai, commissioner of the FCC, wrote an editorial for The Wall Street Journal earlier this month complaining that his own agency was planning to “send researchers to grill reporters, editors, and station owners about how they decide which stories to run.”


“Keep in mind that the commission has the power to renew or reject broadcast television licenses,” he said. “During Watergate, Richard Nixon’s FCC challenged two TV licenses of stations owned by the Washington Post."


http://rt.com/usa/fcc-explanation-controversial-interfere-news-994/
 
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