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Obama Administration Embeds "Government Researchers" To Monitor Media Organizations
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Last week, I highlighted the fact that the latest Press Freedom Index showcased a 13 point plunge in America’s press freedom to an embarrassing #46 position in the global ranking. If the authoritarians in the Obama Administration have their way, this country is set to fall much further in next year’s index.
Incredibly, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to roll out something called the Critical Information Needs study, which will embed government “researchers” into media organizations around the nation to make sure they are doing their job properly.
No this isn’t “conspiracy theory.” It is so real, and represents such a threat to the First Amendment, that a current FCC commissioner, Ajit Pai, recently wrote an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal, warning Americans of this scheme. He writes:
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.”
I have no idea what country I am living in at this point.
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.
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.
Should all stations follow MSNBC’s example and cut away from a discussion with a former congresswoman about the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records to offer live coverage of Justin Bieber‘s bond hearing? As a consumer of news, I have an opinion. But my opinion shouldn’t matter more than anyone else’s merely because I happen to work at the FCC.
I am simply speechless.
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Another conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact.
The American media reaction will probably be to spread even wider.
Mike Krieger, if you think you're speechless now, you will be speech-free soon.
Not one peep from the MSM.
Get ready...
The good news is they have PLENTY of ammo to protect these embedded bureaucrats....
DHS to Purchase 704,390,250 rounds of Ammunition over next 4 Years or 2500 Rounds Per Officer!Yeah, we know their evil, power hungry shit bags. But most that work for them are beyond incompetent, so when does all this ammo get stolen and sold for pennies on the dollar?
Don't worry ~ be happy!
grab a hot pocket and look below.
be happy [& CHEERful]...
Welcome to Obama's executive run around and installation of "The Fairness Doctrine"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
wow, just wow
perceived responsiveness to underserved populations.”
i assume this wont be aiming at pleasing underserved libertarians and constitutionalists
kidding aside, this is the end folks
truly the end
time to grow a beard , get wierd, and disappear on up into the mountains
i'll be waiting for y'all
already there brother
The government embedded me to tell you to get free bitcoins from http://freebitco.in/?r=25727
Czechmate !
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama..."
That quote is awesome. Thanks.
I want Obama to fix my teeth. I ain't too proud to beg. Bitches.
Soooo........what are all those bullets for again?
We are number 46.....USA USA USA!!!!
Ok simply, how many kinds of bombs can one put into a shoe?
Czech out (see what I did there?) what Snopes.com has to say about this. Rather unlikely that such an editorial was ever published in a Czech newspaper, and even if it actually was (again, no evidence it ever happened), there's certainly no evidnce it came from the former Czech premier, Vaclav Klaus.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/pragerzeitungon.asp
The real danger to America are people who are so willfully blinded by their biases (yes, I'm pointing at you) that they acceot uncritically and perpetuate anything they see on the internet that that they want to be true, thus merely reinforcing their biases instead of making any strides towards becoming a truly informed citizen.
Ditto
>>>already there brother
beard - check
weird - check
mountains - check
Ready to rumble - maybe (well, I am pushing 70)
For the right high-value target, I guess, the sky's the limit,
This was it. Mrs Meat has been slowly coming around but this story is like a shotgun blast to the face and now she gets it.
Grow a beard. Get weird. Indeed.
All I can say is, it's about time! Maybe they'll be able to get a handle on all this anti-Semite scream fest we've all been having to tolerate. The amount of bullshit I've had to endure, even here, is intolerable. I'm starting to think that maybe it's a good idea to require websites like this, to be licensed, and the owners attend a 2 wk sensitivity course. Speaking of which, I'm setting up a joint venture with ITT Tech, to do just that. Don't worry about the tuition though cuz you will be able to apply for student loans and grants:) just doin my part friends :)
I'm starting to think that maybe it's a good idea to require websites like this, to be licensed
Heil Hitler bitchez!!!
Good news....you get to go on a train ride.
Pretty sure I've seen this movie before.
Anti-Semite!!!! You could use some sensitivity training yourself! No money? No worries! Uncle Sam can spot you what you need, plus a little extra to cover the rent :)
Obvious troll is obvious.
Fuck this troll.
We have much better here.
I will bring the beer....if I don't drink it all, along the way.
Operation Mockingbird with CIA control and infiltration of the media started with the cold war, if not before. so why public now?
It's neither a conspiracy nor underhanded if they tell you about it first in an op-ed. Alex Jones performs the same service for them daily.
Will anyone do anything about it? No. Just more bitching and moaning that somebody else isn't doing "something", then going back to the cheetohs and the game (which is actually implied consent).
exactly.
Hopefully ZH will at least notify us when their governent overseer takes up his post next to their servers.
Whois.com tells me that ZH servers are located in Bulgaria. Should be safe for awhile
That's what InTrade thought, too.
We can get a strike force just about anywhere within 30 minutes.....except for Benghazi.
nowhere is safe.
the front line is everywhere.
If you're reading this....you are the resistance.
Resistance?!?! Whaaaaaaat? I'm resisting nothing! Happy days are here again, my friend. You're just one of those "glass half full" types :(
A Jones does some good work, but his best work is as a gatekeeper for the usual suspects.
When I saw the clip of him claiming that "Arabs own Hollywood" I half expected him to immediately disappear in a puff of logic.
Apparently he retracted it later then went back to encouraging his listeners to chase ghosts... i.e saying that "the illuminati" control Hollywood.
Good grief.
https://www.youtube.com/user/FallOfAlexJones
Alex jones is a real American hero. You will never hear him try to frame the Jews for goy mismanagement and corruption. Yeah, he's one of the good ones. His wife's a Jew too! She's keeping his thinking straight unlike many of the troglodytes here on ZH.
Well-played, Tsukato, well-played.
He's good.....but MDB is better.
Stop feeding the trolls, folks. They'll go away when we don't respond to them.
Plus, note how they come out in droves when articles of this nature run here on ZH.
Most likely paid government agents focused on disrupting constructive conversation/discussion and debate.
What sort of schtick you runnin friend?
Yeah, old hat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
According to Alex Constantine (Mockingbird: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA), in the 1950s, "some 3,000 salaried and contract CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts". Wisner was able to constrain newspapers from reporting about certain events, including the CIA plots to overthrow the governments of Iran (see: Operation Ajax) and Guatemala (see: Operation PBSUCCESS).
The fact that they're doing it publically now demonstrates to what esteem .gov holds the people.
You left out Operation Gladio. Rolling Stones's article in the early 70's by Carl Bernstein titled "The CIA & The Media" explains it all.
http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
Thank you,
James. The truth will PREVAIL!
To compare this latest false outrage by the oligarchs concerning research efforts that would show they fail to serve the public interest as their free broadcast licenses require, with actual government propaganda efforts, is to compare unicorns with horses.
It was only a few years ago an actual government propaganda operation got the American public on board with an invasion of Iraq based upon what are now proven lies about nonexistent WMD.
And one of the loudest cheerleaders for that war was the oligarchs' semiofficial press, the WSJ editorial page.
So what we have here is some false outrage by the oligarchs who run our country over a government program that would show these oligarchs don't meet the mandatory requirements of their broadcasting licenses. If I were an oligarch, I'd also try to get the rubes all riled up over this, because if the public found out that they actually owned the airways the oligarchs use to feed them shit it might end up costing them billions.
SWL
Lol
I think I speak for everyone here when I say "HOLY SHIT".
I don't know how to interpret this other than it being prelude to an internal coup of the Constitution by our own governemtn. Hope you like Obama as President because he may be in there for life. This is so brazen, they don't even care if people see through their lies and deceptions any more. I think they finally did it. They finally killed the Constitution.
Oh well back to listening to the radio.....or the short wave CB
10-4 good buddy
Radio free America, has a nice ring to it.
Veni, vidi, vici... I came, I saw, I conquered,
or in Barry's version - I cum, I preach , I piss in the soup.
Veni, vidi, bibi. I came, I saw, I drank.
I personally miss Radio Zero, and the 7th Day, with Uncle Joe Benson.
Vae victis......bitchez!
PUBLIC AIRWAVES. That's the premise under which they are doing this (hence, FCC dominion over it). Radio is not immune. Short wave, CB... I doubt they care much about that- they're going for MASS media outlets for now.
Just wait until they're doing it to "internet media outlets", cable TV and, finally, printed newspapers.
They haven't been able to take down the 2nd amendment (so far), so why not bypass it and go straight for the jugular- the 1st amendment?
Exactly.
The link below I posted said that 11% of Americans get their news from radio. This new program is targeting the outliers. Why try to manipulate the mainstream that is already manipulated?
Small outfits will be crashed by big gov.
Thank you. It's infuriating that so few people (even on ZH) are seeing the real end goal here.
We must be ready for a totalitarian government, finally. Even on ZH. This isn't just some "bankers stealing from people" story, this is a whole different level.
I'm SHOCKED so few see the real threat this poses. The recent article about government firewalls not allowing employees access to ZH showed they are afraid of us. THIS STORY is about how they are acting on that fear to slowly squeeze out dissenting voices (including ZH, if they don't "play ball" when the government shows up on their doorstep).
Yes. This transcends left vs right. This transcends bankers stealing from people. This benefits TPTB. Plain and simple.
This will make it that anyone with a dissenting voice whether it be in the realm of politics, finance, environment, health, etc. will be silenced if they don't follow the rules layed before them.
Very scary.
This transcends left vs right.
Yeah...you'd have to pretty much be full tilt retard to hang with this crap.
They're just formalizing an existing informal process?
Oh, Jesus, Skateboarder, not you, too. You're completely fucking missing it. That's only the first layer. This is designed to SQUELCH ANY DISSENTING VOICES. And they don't care any more if you see it happening. ZH gets quoted from time to time even in MSM when they really nail something or break some story that nobody is paying attention to at the time. In short, ZH and other small outlets serve a purpose. What if even that minimal level of coverage was stopped..... or outlawed? (forget what would happen if ZH was directly censored)
We joke all the time about ZH visitors/posters being labeled "terrorists". What if it ACTUALLY happened?
Direct state control of the media is the LAST thing that happens before Constitutions get suspended.
I have never been as frustrated with the level of apathy and willful blindness as I am over this story. And it's happening right here amongst my fellow ZH'ers (MY OWN PEOPLE!) who I thought were pretty well informed on this kinda stuff. I can't believe only ONE other person on this board besides myself has the foresight to understand where this is heading.
This is NOT just another MIC-stealing-from-the-people story.
God damn it, Zero Hedgers, this one is not some run-of-the-mill"who gives a fuck" story. This MATTERS and most of you are missing it.
NoDebt, I don't mean to undestate the importance of this rollout - it's an uppercut to the 1st alright. All I'm saying is that I'm not surprised at any of these moves. It's all part of the playbook. In all forms of media, agents from the gub come and sit with you and you play nice, or else. It's the same story every time. It's just a matter of the pace at how fast things are going, how the people respond to the gradual rollouts of totality, and how soon the Terriss Witch Trials start.
Watch for another online content appropriation bill or something like that. This time the net-neutrality people will lose.
Or they can just censor the Internet overnight and be done with it. I'm sure the switch is already in place.
There was a comment in one of the Ukraine threads asserting that the Ukrainians were finally rejecting mafia government. Wonder if this a step to head off the same thing here? Maybe they really are worried.
Ditto.
In fact, I'm so pissed off I've decided to kill myself before the government can.
There, feel better now Miss NoDebt?
Dumbfuck!
I've decided to kill myself before the government can.
Just make sure you get the proper permits.....or you'll be in some super big trouble.
Just get a building permit, and grab a nail gun...they are cheep, and the lines aren't very long.
>>>Just make sure you get the proper permits.....or you'll be in some super big trouble.
Actually, the Crown seizes the estate of any suicide, hence the office of the Coroner.
But maybe that law has been dropped....
"The chair is against the wall."
Gotto love Red Dawn
Sorry, but that old parchment was killed long ago by "Honest Abe".
@ NoDebt,
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the Criminal UNITED STATES, CORP. INC has been functioning off the Corp version of THE CONSTITUTION not the Organic version. That's the deception, defrauding of The American People & the reason they continue to rape, pillage, wage illegal wars, drone, assassinate & murder with impunity.
@ No debt
No need to keep Obama overtime. All of the other people in line to be Pres are equally happy to do the bidding of their masters.
The 60% of Americans getting a govt check won't mind stuff like this.
Hush money keeps people quiet and cooperative.
Or is it 70%?
D ept.
Of
H uman.
S acrifice.
"We're here from the gov't to help you report...".
"Get the Fugue out of our news offices"...
Our (leader) and his administrative political operatives, are an attempted intimidation, and a total American disgrace...
This nation is toast, and it's very heart breaking.
Toast? More like stick a fork in us.
It is more just to stick a fork in them ;-)
Pitchforks.
I am starting to regret purchasing my farm in the U.S... Should have bought a fast boat.
Just incredible... and incrediby sad.
That's what I'm thinking.
Time to go Ukranianian on these little bitches! We all have been waiting for that moment, is this it. If not what will it take? What will it take for us to unleash our own little "insert name here Spring"? Lock and Load fella's WOLVERIEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We need some "citizen action" to "liberate" this ammo from federal control, a la Ukraine.
704390250 rounds - that is about 2.5 rounds for every man woman and child in this country. I want my name to be craved on two of the rounds. I like to know who are the two lucky fellows who will get my bullets.
Good news......they're still buying more.
"Not one peep from the MSM."
Nor will there be. It's already owned/controlled by those who control government.
Several years ago there was open discussion of mil types being posted in major newsrooms. And reporters who made such known, fired, shunted aside.... Go reference AJ, etc.
Yeah,, yeah, yeah, he's a nut case...
And everything he's warned about has come true.
Got Conspiracy Theories?
Not one peep from the MSM
That's because they're all intimidated.....and Paul Revere they ain't.
I'm torn on this one...do I buy a nail gun for the MSNBC and FOXNEWS "reporters" or for the FCC political commissars?
The one thing you can do to make some kind of difference is to NOT watch the channels who are bought and paid for. So for instance I never watch anything on NBC or CBS or ABC. No sports or anything else. I know it is very little but it is something at least.
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Are you thinking that ABC Media, Ltd is The American Broadcasting Company?
http://gross-law.com/dalrymple.pdf
Part of the public record.
i was not sure. that's why i deleted the post.
Now I know who Tyler is!
Wow this info is a head-turner! I realize this is a one sided version of the truth but if the allegations are true?
http://www.deepcapture.com/category/introduction-an-overview-of-deep-cap...
http://www.deepcapturethemovie.com/
Long time since I read a case like that. From a cursory read of the cause of action it looks like the case is brought by some POS that ought to have Rule 11 type sanctions rained down on their heads. In any event, ABC is whatever was the independent media organization that is now part of Disney. They are shills for the Administration (yes the one that wants one of their people in every news room to insist on their version of the truth). I hate Disney for other reasons (though the theme parks are great). Anyway the point is in an anti Nike sort of way if contemplating being a set of eyeballs that might receive the advertising trope sustaining these assholes i say Just Dont Do It.
..."NOT watch the channels who are bought and paid for"
They are ALL bought and paid for. All MSM is owned by a handful of people and employ armies of message massagers working on every detail. And marching toward the same goal.
If you are paying for cable/sat but not watching, they could give a shit. They still get your money because they get a cut of your bill. A fringe channel may only get a nickle per customer but those nickels add up.
Al Gore Sells His ‘Current TV’ Cable Channel To Islamic Al Jazeera News Group
"Al Jazeera did not disclose the purchase price, but people with direct knowledge of the deal pegged it at around $500 million, indicating a $100 million payout for Mr. Gore, who owned 20 percent of Current."
http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2013/01/al-gore-sells-his-current...
I doubt any regular viewer of MSNBC would be able to handle any real "critical information" if it requires the least bit of critical thought. Besides, they are too busy leaning forward or bending over or something like that.
I wonder if the FCC will force government agents into the offices of
I know there's probably some bias from these organizations as well, but I prefer to get a perspective from someone on the outside looking in.
Well as to al jazeera english, someone posted this link a while back on another blog. Seems hard to believe.
..actually link seems to be dead. this is the cached text only version.
Haha, a fake Arab-Muslim news service, operated by The Tribe.
We disconnected the t.v., including the sat dish feed a long time ago. So we don't know (or care) what the MSM is saying . . . as they are all liars and whores who know who butters their bread.
Not surprised that this gets no coverage.
I confess, at times, when at family members homes to comment how t.v. makes you brain dead and passive. Often they'll reply "Oh we have it to watch the news."
This story will give me more ammunition in those arguments "You know they know put the Though Police in the so called news rooms now, don't you ?"
Big Brother just keeps on getting Biggerer!
and zh commenters glued to their chairs, keep on doing nothing more than getting fatter with every passing day (including yours truly). at least in ukraine, venezuela, etc. the people are burning gov't buildings down instead of posting comments.
It's a glandular problem!
The 'Do Something, Anything Disease' seems to be common with humanity.
Do Something . . . . even if counterproductive and self destructive.
Do Something . . . . even if you'll hurt your own cause.
Do Something . . . even if it brings 'laws' which have no impact on the 'problem' and only takes money & freedom from you.
Do Something . . . . including running off to war or burning down your own communities - - - even if you can barely articulate what it is you are supposedly fighting or marching or burning for. And even if logic has never been something that youve allowed in your brain.
Do Something, Anything ! - - - - is the call of fools . . . and of those who manipulate them.
Soon there will be black panthers at the polls and the news rooms....oh wait
I didn't think I was ever going to stop hearing about that.
That....and the time Ted Nugent failed to hit the trashcan with his McDouble sandwich wrapper....talk about an outrage.
dude,
if the people in the US awaken and fill the streets, it will be hot lead not rocks. Do you want to fire the shot heard 'round the world? That's a lot of blood on one man's hands. The resulting shit show will never end . forgive me if I want to avoid or at least delay TEOTWAWKI.
Follow Me!
Actually, I've been hittin' the gym lately. But yeah, up till now...
TBTF?
ZH- this story deserves to be the top story for the day. (week)
"Incredibly, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to roll out something called the Critical Information Needs study, which will embed government “researchers” into media organizations around the nation to make sure they are doing their job properly."
...isn't this already "conspiracy fact"?
Yeah, but now they're not even trying to hide it anymore. They're shaking their dicks right in our faces now. Suck on that, bitch, basically is what they're saying. Brazen, indeed.
....And, rolling it out in a deep conservative state, the one which was first to secede, the first to open fire on fedgov, 1861, whose people have a habit of starting a war when pissed off enough. A state which already has had the 3rd ID HQ posted to their state.
Obama is such a motherfucking cuntfaced piece of shit.
Let it roll, brother!
Duce! Duce! Duce!
Always of two minds when this happens -- depressed and angry yet smug and vindicated.
full-on fuck tard.
Wee r so fuxored, friends...
All Banana Republics feel the need to muzzle the press.
They Live!
http://www.mrdiggles.com/img/they-live-1.jpg
Making sure the paid MSM scum are following the Criminal UNITED STATE, CORP. INC. False Narrative & PsyOp Scripts. Psych Warfare at it finest.
Don't worry, be happy.
I have many happy thoughts about my life and family. About my government, not so much.
Impeachment is long and tedious, and just won't happen. A drum head treason trial, on the other hand...
Impeach our First Black President?
Hah ha ha ha ha ha
If he were white he'd a been gone long ago.
Talk about propaganda
So ... let's impeach his WHITE half ... no?
Yeah.. Impeach Obama so that Joe Biden takes his place?
Nixon had Agnew from the corrupt state of Maryland too.
The VP has to be worse. It is an insurance policy.
let's impeach his WHITE half
That's brilliant.....cause no one would care about that.
Its all a chess board. No absolute plan but an absolute directive and end goal. Get officials in position for at first observation, then influence and finally control. This would be done in conjunction with others moves. Things that would incentivize public fears creating demands for "protection". Maybe something like a high level assassination attempt, blame for which being pointed at conservative media voices "instigating" threatening attitudes. This would also allow an almost instant clamp down on guns and ammo, calling in the collected data of the NSA to confirm ownership and locations. They will use examples of Ukraine to foster fears of uprisings, even though The US has fully backed the rioters. Everything is for effect and purpose. As Rahm said, a crisis is too valuable to waste, especially if it is a crisis you deliberately fabricated.
Here have a hot pocket.
I'll show you my Big Brother if you show me your hot pocket
Fonz said, be happy, not Mr. Happy.
Well it did say they were stffed with "bad meat."
Was thinking of having a hot pocket and a six pack of PBR.
"That which does not kill us, makes us stronger."
Why do I doubt that?
Forward comrades!
Speaking of:
G. Edward Griffin Interview Of Yuri Bezmenov.
The former KGB Agent said that for true Propaganda, Indoctrination & PsyOp to be effective it must span Generations or be " Generational." What more proof do we need. It's beyond repair at this point, IMHO.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R...
Good news......Yuri thinks I might be useful.
Duce!
Duce!
Duce!
Just like the soviets of old, a part member on site at all times to make sure nobody deviates from the script.
"If you want a vision of the future, Imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever".
It's been building for awhile, but it is mind-boggling what Obama and the "progressives" have done in such a short time. They are well on the way to transforming the USA into an overt fascio-communist state.
Who is watching the watchers watchers watching the people not watching but the watchers overseers?
10 years ago this would have shocked me. Now I'm shocked it's taken so long to be official.
John Stewart Leibowitz will be silent on this one
As will the dyke Maddow. Of course they are with the program already, so what do they care.
Dyke? No, wait I thought he ... um ... was a ... oh ... fergit it ...
Now there is one handsome man.
The media is owned. So who gives a shit?
Uhmmmm.... I do.
I second that.
90% of all media is owned by 6 corps.
GE, Newscorp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS.
IMO this new law is going to affect the outlying 10% a hell of a lot more then the other 90% who already play ball with big gov.
Expect to see that 90% number become 100%, with anyone watching RT or Al Jazeera to be labeled as domestic terrorists.
Didn't GE sell NBC Universal to Comcast?