The Feds Want to Determine News Coverage
Think I’m being paranoid?
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.
That’s not a quote from a blogger or a tin-foil hat wearing journalist from an extremist website. That’s Ajit Pai, an FCC commissioner writing in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Pai writes, “The government has no place pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories.” Damn right it doesn’t.
We live in dangerous times. We don’t fully comprehend this yet, but we will soon – and hopefully before it is too late to change things.
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Ymarsakar:
They’ve been doing things like this for a long time. The FBI sub director that wanted to take down Nixon for personal reasons, used the bait, lure, and bribe of inside coverage to manipulate the press.
There’s little difference in the feds using hard force to do the same thing now a days. It’s just a tad more obvious, since the benefit of soft power is that it makes people think that nobody is being manipulated.
1 March 2014, 8:32 am