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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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Yes, they did. But let's not pretend they are a bastion of free speech. The CEO golfs with Obama.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/08/obama-golfs-with-comcast-ceo...
I'm looking forward to watching Obama on the Seniors Tour......when he's done destroying the country that is.
He will win everytime....
He will win everytime....
So who runs the corps. Who owns them? The corporate interests are bad enough, but what about the political slant of the managers?
And why do they often seem to largly put the same news stories in front of us... zimmerman...twerking.... human interest fluff... sochi follies....
I will bring fundamental change! Mission accomplished. Be careful what you wish for.
My only question is what other news orgs need one of these gubmit censors other than the one bath house barry tried to shut down day one?
We need to celebrate this momentous occassion by getting a collection for t-shirts to the likes of Wa-PO, WSJ and NYT staff with those words emblazoned on the front and back Congratulations ladies and gents for a cover-up Well Done!
Apparently, #46 is too high on the list for the .gov. Gotta push that number lower. .gov is getting more "in your face" everyday. Won't be long before they just announce all media will be state-run. There will be no licenses, all media employees will be federal employees.
Long gasoline, styrofoam, and wine bottles.
I thought the same thing when they embedded the media with the troops in Iraq.
Must be something about the word 'embed'...
The sheep get butt raped and bleat and mew in joy over it. Sad.....
MEMO to Consumers:
Not sure why all the hub-hub. We've been doing this for years, particularly since 9-11. Lessons learned, we've upgraded measures post financial crisis and are now simply ORGANIZING things... Ya know, making things "legal."
Thought you knew.
Best,
The Machine
Legitimate through Legalization.
Hmmmm...Where did I read about that before???
Yeah. I remember...Hitler's Germany.
If you haven't already, you might want to look REEEEEEAL hard at leaving the US for a while. Like 10-20 years, or maybe forever.
And go where? Seriously? The whole world is going to shit at the same time.
Edit. The wilderness of Canada may be the only real viable option.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWzJFiAbi98
2-3 weeks of fall colors, 3 months or so decent summer weather, the rest of the year is depressing. Spent 50 years there, which is why I'm in Texas now.
Just dress warm.
i know where to go
and i'm going there
soon
i'll be settled by mid april
Somewhere in east Texas looks like the perfect spot to me.
Just cottoned on? It's called 'One World Government'....and it's coming to visit EVERYONE on the planet....soon.
"If you haven't already, you might want to look REEEEEEAL hard at leaving the US for a while."
This old lady and her family didn't even know WW II was happening. Nowhere in the lower 48 that is this remote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68
This is why I don't watch anything anymore. I've long been "off the grid," at least media-wise. Ironically, it was the Fox News coverage of the invasion of Iraq, the first instance of embedded journalism that I know of, which did it for me. I hate the word "embed" as an adjective applied to journalism. It is nothing less than an open admission of "we control the horizontal and the vertical, and most importantly we control the narrative."
I agree.
Embed should be an adjective reserved for getting women who are out of your league to sleep with you.
They are to late. People with IQ's larger than their shoesize have cancelled their cable/sattelite subscriptions long ago. All they are doing is refining their craft on sheep already existing in a vegetative state.
Someone complained that there aren't enough Zionist Jews in the media.
This canard about Jews controlling the media is hateful and spiteful and true.
who cares? whoever get their news from main stream is already brainwashed anyways.
This won't be restricted to the 'main stream' over time, that is why one should care.
Exactly. This is designed to fuck with everyone who isn't mainstream. Mainstream news already knows not to go against status quo.
Turnabout is fairplay.
Have two reporters, one liberal and one conservative in every branch of government.
NEVER WONDER WHY HIS MAJESTY WANTS THAT OFF SWITCH ON THE INTERNET
So, Marla is going to start getting a check from the FCC Tyler? I say she's too good for government work, but, what the hell, a check's a check.
Whats the matter? perhaps a slow night, Tyler?
The corporate based media is dead, deader than dogshit....
They have zero credibility and are increasingly irrelevant....
Yet another nothing burger at the Hedge...
There is a substantial portion of the population who get their "news" from the MSM. They still have a major influence on public opinion.
Right. And broadcasters use the public airways for free because they supposedly serve the public interest. But instead of serving the public interest, they keep the American public uninformed by serving up irrelevant bullshit such as what Millie Cyrus did yesterday.
The oligarchs who own our mass media and decide what the American public sees and hears like to keep the sheep in the dark. The Wall Street Journal's editorial page is little more that these oligarchs' loud speaker. And the people outraged because the FCC is seeking data that will prove the media keeps us uninformed are little more that the oligarchs' useful idiots.
DR.
Energy is life, Flak would love to hand control over energy to bureaucrats for your own good, win/win
Go ahead and point out any statement I have ever made here consistent with what you posted...
Making shit up is bad form....
Flakey, relax and enjoy a hot pocket. Though, I do agree that the lamestream media SHOULD have little credibility, I suspect there are enough sheeple out there that do find it relevant.
A simple google source told me that 55% of Americans get their news from Tv. The rest from internet and radio.
55% is the huge majority in the poll.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/163412/americans-main-source-news.aspx
One should always do a 10 second amount of research before they take 10 seconds to make themselves appear to be a fucking idiot.
Why don't you correlate that with those that vote in contestable Congressional districts...
And/Or show that choice of MSM News influences the vote...
Then we be talking...
However if that could be demonstated, I am sure that we would have heard of it...
In other words the corporate MSM is basically irrelevant...
FWIW, the times I do happen to see MSM news, I see more infotainment than anything resembling news...
Anyway, show me numbers if you can find them, I can be convinced that I am wrong if you can show the right data...
Until then as far as I am concerned the MSM news influences nothing...
You're implying that kind of data is publicly available. I can only offer anecdotal evidence to support my argument and won't do so because IIRC thats a fallacy.
I invite you to retort with evidence that MSM has no influence.
Re: Flake -
He can't
He won't
He never will
He is incapable ...
That's cause his cue cards have melted from all the global warming.
Its Flake doing what he does, minimizing the importance of this issue 'cause Obama. Nothing the "progressives" do is really harmful, its all good don't you know.
If you dig, the data is there and given the interest in this issue you don't think some aspiring quant would figure that out for his political spin masters. Sort of like Hound of the Baskervilles...
And last time I checked it was very hard to prove a null hypothesis...
So what you just admitted is that we have is a difference of opinion on the influence of mainstream media...
I can live with that...
Who gives a rat f$ck about the level of influence? Who cares that most of corporate news is a tool to dumb down the public by focusing on the flashy sugar (Beiber, Lardassians) vice the substance of whole grains and veggies (stories on corruption in the corporate and gov world)? This specific story is about the f-cking arrogance of political commissars to dictate what is important information that must be presented, or more likely, hidden from the public. Even more to the point, the bottom line of the final study can easily be written now (because it probably has already been written):
"Fox News has demonstrated persistent and systemic bias. MSNBC is the most insightful and unbiased television media outlet."
"as far as I am concerned the MSM news influences nothing..."
I have no hard evidence, but I think the two-party system would finally die if the media had no influence. Just one of my theories.
The fact that they don't do their job of reporting the news accurately and objectively means everything. Many of you people note that the country has been going downhill for several decades. The fact that the news media have been lying whores for the left/liberals/feminists and the Democratic Party is a major reason why. Think of it this way, if it didn't matter why would a left wing administration go out of its way to muscle a overwhelmingly liberal media even further to the left.
Things are getting worse so they need more aggressive lying on the part of their media allies. Also, there is an election coming up, they need to ratchet up the propaganda. Of course it matters, if it didn't you wouldn't be coming to this site every fucking day you passive aggressive contrarian pussy.
flake master doesnt know how to use the internet to look shit up for himself
Is there some kind of cash reward for "most unremitting cunt," Flak?
No, but you got my vote for the most content free blow hard here...
and the runner up goes to....
That would be you...
Is there anything that you could possibly take me to school on? Lord knows you have tried and failed every time...
I can't remember, were you the one who was going to tell me all about the shortcomings of QED? Or was that your wingman for the night? Or was it the Long Wave Infrared absorption properties of non-condensing atmospheric gases?
Oh shit, now I remember...
Please explain to us all about abiotic oil and the big "conspiracy"....
You're not even smart enough to be accurate with your digs. I'm certainly not a "blow hard" - do you know what the term means? I can rattle off reasons why I'm in all probability significantly more intelligent and informed than you about many of the things you comment on - but that's not how I roll, I simply indicate why you're wrong.
As for "content free" - some posts sure, but generally, I often provide a lot of hyperlinked text that you can check out or not bother with. That is, I spend at least a little time marshalling evidence for a position, irrespective of whether or not you agree with it. I mean even Cunt of Reason does the same, trying to support his anti-Russian, pro-State Department trolling.
You don't do any of that. You're just a bloviating cunt.
If the best thing you have in debating repetoire is to repeatedly call me some form of a cunt, it is pretty clear how intellectually bankrupt you are....
That is a clear tell that you may be safely ignored for now, though maybe someday you can join in the adult swim if you know what I mean...
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BTW, from the other thread if you are going to understand Russian geopolitics, start here:
http://www.eia.gov/countries/analysisbriefs/Russia/russia.pdf
It goes a lot further than flinging bullshit slogans that makes you sound like some kind of right wing version of a Bolshevik poseur....
None of that disproves my you are a cunt theory, though.
Do you even know what a cunt looks like?
Fascist lame stream media doesn't mind it one bit. They are irrelevant and in bed together anyway. That shit will rot your brain.
Ding!
People are still sittin around thinking people like David fucking Gregory are unbiased "journalists"? The state took the MSM over years ago and the plebes are just waking up to this?
I can hear it now in California..."So, Mr President, you're here speaking about manmade global warming and drought, yet you flew here on Air Force One. Any comment?"
Oh yeah, thats gonna fuckin happen.
Thrust them into newsrooms?...lol...WTF!...hell, the newsrooms are infested with indoctrinated statists before they ever get there.
Columbia School of Journalism anyone?
Exactly media integrity has been going down hill since the 1970s. Not going to matter either way. Remember the embed news crews Iraq war/s? Nice and clean. Ain't no Vietnam here.
All the news the state see's fit to print.
Pogue Colonel: Whose side are you on, son?
Private Joker: Our side, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Don't you love your country?
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Then how about getting with the program? Why don't you jump on the team and come on in for the big win?
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
They must get paid a lot to jeopardize their lives like that.
Don't act so fucking surprised. Intelligence agencies have controlled nearly all editors since at least 1950. The American populace has become so soft and docile that newsrooms will now be DIRECTLY controlled by the state, and absolutely nothing will be done to stop it. Hell, some of these limp dicked editors will come out in favor of this, just watch.
Who cares.
F*cking butnuts won't stop the inevitable + most most media is sh*t.
Why not start a news organization off shore which will report on the who, what, why, when and where in the USA without government intrusion, you know the way news reporting is supposed to be,
Fear of drones?
That would be copying the ZH model ;-)
the powers that be are feeling the heat .... we must be doing something right
4th Reich. Some of the Media will be happy about it. Remember, at first, many Jews supported hitler too.
I wish this surprised me, but it doesn't. The Bush administration got caught using "canned" reports that were not real, CNN got busted faking a "live" report from Iraq (that's still on youtube, I think), Iran's Green Revolution was being televised on every network and then the next day it was like it never happened, Conan exposed the "Did you buy yourself a gift or two or ten......."
On and on and on. It's hard to believe how captured our media is. Thank goodness for the internet.
Need at least one 'cite' there, 'Tim'.
CNN's fuckery in Iraq was unreal - the '91 sound stage stuff I can forgive, but remember Baghdad Dan or whoever - the staged shooting with CIAnderson "bar room handjobs" Cooper?
How people could have a hard time accepting that foreign states interfering in Syria tried to frame Assad for using the sarin gas they had themselves provided to the rebels, as an excuse to justify the invasion/regime change they've wanted for years... is beyond me.. it takes 5 minutes of googling if you're capable of reading as fast as even an average college student.
But then even Hersh had a hard time presenting his findings in the US.
The reason The One spoke of the "evidence" in the way he did was a lot of the spooks, and DIA, refused to sign off on it as the rank and file were beginning to loudly grumble about the obvious 7 countries/5 years false flag bullshit of it all.
But yeah - people just forget that CNN has repeatedly got caught fucking around, and that's leaving aside having former AIPACer Wolf Blitzer covering the ME for us....
I stand corrected:
You are merely a potty mouthed conspiracy theory whackadoo...
and you're like a dumber and presumptively less hot msnbc anchor who can't argue substance so tries to play 'gotchya' and poison the well with labels like conspiracy theory.
You're no Alex Wagner, Flake.
And if you were honest, which you are not, you would do your own research into the sarin gas episode and find that the evidence points toward the false flag scenario. I don't expect you've looked into it at all.
Considering and rejecting evidence is not the same thing as never even looking at the evidence.
Maybe one day you'll figure that out instead of simply believing everything that comes out of aDemocrat's mouth.
As to CNN, I don't care about the fake location stuff, who cares. But their Syrian interviewee was caught red handed - apparently not wise eough to understand how satellite feeds work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWB5ssifTg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXK83FJzLYc
They lied about Vietnam. They lied about Iraq and the press complied. Why on earth do you think they wouldnt lie about Syria and Iran when neocon position papers have for years talked about remaking or reshaping the middle east... these are countries which have been on the hitlist since before Clark's 7 countries 5 years speeches.
Are you that much of a partisan shill, really?
Yes, Flak - the preponderance of the credible evidence is that the sarin gas was used by foreign funded and armed rebels in order to pin the blame on Assad, so the redline would be crossed and America could act as Al Qaeda's air force. Seymour Hersh's article does a good job of exposing the effort to "fit the facts around the goal". US intelligence would not back the assessment. Obama only backed down and went to Congress because of public and intelligence agency resistance.
Am I 100% positive - of course not, but that's what the preponderence of the credible evidence suggests. What fucking evidence do you have, dummy?
They're just looking for an excuse. You'd be willing to believe it if only it was a republican or "tea party " member in office, you dumb, easily led cunt.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/9/seymour_hersh_obama_cherry_picked_...
The press should have known. Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
They traded their integrity for access.
They forgot who their real customers are, they can get bailed out by .gov for all I care & make the farce complete...and suffer the same fate.
Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
Awesome post. What is that from?
Pink Floyd, my all time favorite band.
"Wish You Were Here"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ4wX76_oMI
Title track to the album.
ZH needs to have an embedded comment troll with the handle Josef Goebels and an avatar of Eric Holder (they have a striking physical resemblance -- Holder could be a descendent). It would ask about what all the other members are thinking and why they are posting.
The ZH members would always find the most polite way to say fuck you in your left nostril, asshole.
Glad ZH posted this. This is troubling not just on its face, because it is likely that there is a lot more going on than this. They already have spooks greenlighting/okaying stories at the networks and big newspapers like, certainly the times.
This is in addition to the controls that come with consolidated corporate ownership [about 6 mega corps] as well as ownership and control by the usual suspects at all of the tv news outlets and most of the top 20 circ papers.
Which is why the internet isn't safe for long. Controls will be needed.
For the childrens, and, you know... because terror.
This is troubling not just on its face, because it is likely that there is a lot more going on than this. They already have spooks greenlighting/okaying stories at the networks and big newspapers like, certainly the times......
So true. Comspiracists were saying Jay Leno was replaced-too many Obama criticisms, now i believe it.
drugs.
Journalists won't care. Just the opposite. They will look at Present Øbama's monitors as a job interview for what they really want: Jay The Carney's position.
Don't be so surprised. Extra measures are criritical to assuring the next 3 years go by without a hitch. Feel fortunate the President didn't go full Hugo Chavez the first 5 years. How else can he assure positive reporting for his administration? If only all networks stations were the good stewards MSNBC has been.
Can we quit pretending now?
LOL, you guys over there are so screwed, mmmm, perhaps I should not laugh, only a matter of time until we inherit the same system.
This means "The View" will have to tone down their hard hitting stories. Good Morning America will never be the same.
GMA has never been the same since losing Joan Lunden ...
http://www.biography.com/people/joan-lunden-262764
Pretty evident who is in charge of "programming".
http://eta-45.blogspot.com/2013/07/who-controls-your-mind-2013.html
Next thing you know we'll find out those bastards are spying on all of us.
So much for the oath if office about uoholding abd protecting the constitution that the artogant narcissistic pathological lying illegal alien myslim sociopath took. I guess the politicos elected by the sheeple have theur heads in the same place the sheeple have theirs and the conceot of impeachment has sent to Pluto.
Everyone who is promoting or implementing this outrage should first put out their own eyes and then simply lie down and die
Can the FCC fire Cramer?
Well it's here! First they use the country's physical security to create information gathering that we find from an individual is collected in incredible detail using every source imaginable to violate our Constitutional rights of privacy by using General Warrants specifically outlawed by our Fourth Amendment. Their followers defend it as necessary for our safety!
Then we have persecution of political groups against this administration who uses the Agencies of our government to prosecute them in the most vicious ways to teach a lesson.
Now they are going to modulate and later modify what we see and hear from our "Free" Media.
It's time for Americans to put aside politics and take up our Constitution! On our private information, Our 4th Amendment is being violated! It is unconstitutional to issue General Warrants! There is no argument to that!
There is no doubt from the punishing activities that took place on citizens by the Agencies of our government to keep them from having certain incorporation structures that others including our president has occurred. Our Agencies went in and terrified innocents.
And now, the mandate that the FCC watch dogs will go into the media and intimidate and modify information we receive from what our Constitution guarantees as a Free press away from government intrusion.
Please put aside political leanings. We are becoming the Soviet Union under Lenin and later Khrushchev under their rules of government. This will effect all liberal and conservative.
DO YOU WANT TO BE The Generations that surrendered our Constitutional Freedoms that our children will understand under servitude years from now?
Don't fight this for political reasons. Fight this for our children's futures!
When Castro came to power he introduced "embedded researches" in the press.
They would read and rate each article published by any journalist and their evaluation printed just below the article.
That lasted for a while after which all newspapers were confiscated and closed down.
Only "Granma", yes that is the name of the official Cuban Government newspaper!, and a few other government flyers are what is left of Cuban journalism.
If you like your freedom of speech, you can keep your freedom of speech!
Read the REAL history....Catsro WAS the good guy....
Friend, You are stepping perilously close to a call to arms.
Thats generally fround upon.
That being said, " A person should never be afraid to do something which he has the God given right to do" -Rosa Parks-
Frowned upon by who?
What's up with the down votes? I'm getting ho's comment..... Take up arms against your government and kill ALL politicians and bankers because this will not stop until you do. It is your right under the second amendment.
When the government flagrantly disregards its citizens and the foundation which the government is founded upon, it is time to not only make dissent known but to topple the government and install one which will be for the people by the people.
Watch the hypcrite Teleprompter call out the National guard when Washington turns into the Ukraine, but that won't happen till we see food and fuel shortages.
Let us hope the enforcement arm of DC sides with the people and against the pols and corporation when the time comes. We do not need bloodshed to set this thing right.
If you like your freedom of the press, you can keep your freedom of the press!!
apparently not
Disclaimer = none
FUCK you in this order: Obobo, NSA, Eric dick Holder, NSA, CIA, FBI, IRS...wait I mean IRS, NSA, FBI, CIA. FUCK I can't even list them all correct. The one thing that is clear is that we don't need any of them. By definition THEY depend on us for money.
"What is the future, Smith?"
"I dunno, sir."
"Imagine a Bankster Jackboot. Stomping on your face. Forever."
when it comes the first taken out will be the media imho.
Just a few months ago the Shield Law became a hot topic among independent journalists. This new and IMHO, frightening development may be related.
Who's a journalist? Sen. Dianne Feinstein wants to draw a line
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-dianne-feinstein-congres...
When I teach journalism classes, I like to shock the students by telling them that journalists aren’t professionals in the sense that doctors, lawyers, accountants or even beauticians are.
You don’t need a license or a degree to work as a reporter or editor in this country; in fact, if Congress or a state decided to license journalists the Supreme Court surely would blow its 1st Amendment whistle.
And yet ... though government doesn’t license journalists, for decades it has defined journalists for certain purposes. Exhibit A: Although the Supreme Court has rejected the idea that reporters have a 1st Amendment right to protect the identities of their confidential sources, most states provide a “privilege” to that effect.
California’s so-called shield law -- part of the state Constitution -- says reporters and editors for newspapers, magazines and broadcast news organizations can’t be held in contempt for refusing to identify a source or turn over unpublished information. In 2006, the California Court of Appeal extended the protection of the shield law to “news-oriented websites.”
Any legal definition of “journalist” can be nitpicked. For example, Pennsylvania’s shield law covers journalists who work for a publication of “general circulation,” which would seem to exclude student journalists and reporters for religious, union and other special-interest publications.
Diane Feinstein is full of shit and will never be re-elected. She doesn't represent Californians.
Schweinstein oder Steinschwein?
Schutzstaffel
From your post to G-ds ears.
Lord, hear our prayers.
"the press" in the 1st meant and should be taken to mean the printed word, not journalists or newspapers.
The fuckwits on the left railed against Citizens United both because they love the idea of the state being able to jail people they don't like for making a documentary, and because they take 'press' to cover their beloved newspapers, even though the Times for example.. is a fucking corporation.
Idiots. Myopic, obtuse morons.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/11/09/you-are-now-free-to-speak-abou/sin...
This is a giant red flag. I've dealt with the FCC for the past 45 years and never once have I gotten even a whiff that the FCC will make recommendations on programming (or news) content.
This is marxist/fascist to the max and must be stopped. How 'bout we send a reality TV crew to cover all the day-to-day actions of these "monitors", in order to demostrate to the sheeple what's happening in their once great country.
Status of Liberty stands alone...
"Status of Liberty stands alone..."
...at night, in the NY Harbour. Her lights had been turned off. I thought that was good. As a Park Ranger, I was the only one who could see Tears flowing from Her eyes. Damn this regime, I thought, nervoulsy looking about as I formed the thoughts. They were always watching.....
Actually, I'm not sure anyone will notice any difference as the current reporting could't get much more Orwellian. This will just formalize the process. Maybe they'll even wear really neat-0 uniforms with all kinds of secret insigina and speak with a lisp. Next up will be special researchers at hospitals to monitor twins and conduct eye pigment tests on target groups. Really we do seem to be moving right along don't we? A new dawn is breaking...a golden dawn.
no Jon Corzine stories ....got it?
won't the republicans be pleased though, they always complain about liberal media. they could bar all of them and put into place their own shills.
the rhino republicans like the liberal media, no changes will be necessary
Yeah....it's cute to see someone who still thinks this is just about republicans and democrats.
the revelation that obama is a fascist is even more shocking that the revelation that george bush is a globalist. these people have no more control of the system than you or i. you would imagine that at some point one of them would throw up their hands, and say i can't do this! but of course they don't constantly promote you even though you failed at your last job unless they have something in mind. and there is no greater hubris than that born of dubious achievment, gosh they really do love me?. and the best way to discourage this behavior is to make an example of it, but are demonstrators willing to lay seige to the WH {Kiev?} in order to make the point? and what is that point anyway, the protestors want to be part of the EU? they deserve more than rubber bullets for stupidity. [me thinks the MSM has got it wrong again] this might be the decline of all central government power, why is the US not leading the change? obama has already sanctioned the american middle class. whats wrong with americans that they cant' see they worse off than a bunch of russian peasants.
>>>this might be the decline of all central government power
While we're on the subject of obtuse, manipulative mass media, I saw a Boston Globe special article (front page, second section) last autumn which was entitiled "The Men Who United the States". I couldn't handle more than a sentence or two, but the gist was how thankful we should be for those key, special individuals who forged Our Indissoluble Union. I'm glad that TPTB feel the need to publish this sort of shit in the popular press: they really are worried about their future, or they wouldn't bother.
Our Emperor, Ourselves.
This sort of shit is why me and George Carlin don't vote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk
I'd add that the same people who get angry with you for not voting will get even angrier when you say you'd vote for Ron Paul or Gary J over the other cunts...meaning, as usual, that they don't really respect the right to vote, or free speech, or want a judiciary that can play fast and loose with the meanings of words.... they just get mad when you don't comply with their view of {increasingly arbitrary and capricious) government coercion.
Fuck 'em.
The Obama Team's chant: Death to America
Barack Obama, the Propaganda President.
Should we be surprised? It was progressive Edward Bernays that invented propaganda, and from whom Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels learned it.
Progressives are convinced that the ends justify the means. How Machiavellian!
One of the ugly realities of modern communication is the ability to send out millions of messages directly and unfiltered, lends itself to be used in unsavory ways or to gain advantage. This becomes a real problem when one person or a small group controls the message and uses an army of tax paid employees to shape, spin, and send it forth.
Capitalizing on the possibilities of the digital age, the Obama White House is generating its own content like no president before, and refining its media strategies in the second term in hopes of telling a more compelling story than in the first. This takes the idea of the bully pulpit to a new and dangerous level. More on this White House propaganda machine below,
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/04/white-house-propaganda-machine.html
I had worked hard on the copy, turned it in to the Desk, and was getting a cup of joe when Jim, the editor, walked up.
"Bill, go see the PO."
I froze. Political Officer? What had I done wrong? "Wha... what is it, Jim?"
He looked at me with concern. "I don't know, Bill. Shit, who knows anything nowadays? Just go see him, now!
I left my coffee and scrambled down the hall to the PO's Office.
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The PO was a little guy with a clubbed foot. He could be charming but also very biting in his comments. Somehow, he always knew the latest scandal before I did.
"Ah, hello, Smith."
"Hello, Mr Gribbles. I heard you wanted to see me."
"What's wrong with this copy on Washington DC events?" He asked, handing it back to me. I began reading, nervously. I glanced at Gribbles and he wearing a sardonic smile. I could feel the sweat forming as I stared at the silver epaulets on his black uniform.
"Come now, Mr Smith, I have not got all day."
"Uh, I can't find anything, sir." Shit. Was I going to end up like Johnson, lose my journo license and take up hawking O-Phones on the streets? I shuddered. What had I done? I looked at Gribbles, nervously.
"Oh, very well, you left out 'Great and Glorious' before our Leader's name," Gribbles said, ominously.
"Sorry, sir. I was in a hurry. I'll fix it immediately."
"Excellent, Mr Smith! You have done this twice. Am I going to have to keep an extra eye on you?"
"Nossir. I'll try to do better. I will do better. For you and our Leader."
"Excellent response, Mr Smith. I think we will get along fine. Now, hurry up, chop chop!"
Ajit Pai, I think you will soon have a roommate named Snowdon.
Thanks to all readers who did not/do not vote. You morons! Now you will post garbage like Republicans and Democrats are the same. Yeah, as if Republicans come up with political censorship.
Yeah, as if Republicans come up with political censorship.
They did. What happened at the Convention in Tampa?
Ron Paul. Ron Paul was not even allowed to speak.
Furthermore Mitt Romney admits that he needed to steal the Nomination...
http://asheepnomore.net/2014/01/22/mitt-romney-finally-admits-knew-steal-republican-nomination-ron-paul/
Fuck you statist shill.
I will never vote for anyone with a Republican or Democrat Brand again. NEVER.
They are the same.
>>>Thanks to all readers who did not/do not vote.You morons!
Personally, I split the difference: local and state elections can be worth a vote.
As to federal elections, and the rethuglicon party: just relax and enjoy yourself, since it really DOESN'T matter.
Obama would never do this. It must be a few rogue agents at the FCC.
Sure Obama wouldn't....
He doesn't even know about it yet since it hasn't been in the papers. (WSJ is no paper after all).
Strange that they had the chance to change or regulate the law surrounding UK media lately and it would have been easy to implement something like this with the recent scandals and yet, against the tide, politicians all said they wanted no changes or regulations over the media.
Still a very worrying story for everyone in the world. 42" plasma Propaganda.
Scoff at all knowledge and despise
reason and science, those flowers of mankind.
Let the father of all lies
with dazzling necromancy make you blind,
then I'll have you unconditionally -
ZeroHero Poll
1. How long will it take Norte Venezuela to catch up?
2. Did the banksters make Obama do it?
3. Are Jews bombarding your brain with electronic mind control waves?
* RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
Please inform your comrades......we know all 12 points....and we will use them against you.
It is clearly written with broad agency announcements for information and intelligence, so cannot be plausible denied or disproven, that obscure sections/sectors/departments within the US military [industrial complex and virtual machine] are also into exploration and researching development of reality manipulating and monitoring and mentoring for the means of preserving and providing offensive security defence for systems in attack command and control. …… with US tax dollars and QE funds just doing IT and their own thing, y’all.
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It does have one a’pondering and a’wondering and a’wandering down tracks though, which would have one asking whether the present White House/Obama Administration and Federal Government and Military and Cyber Commands are in competition with each other for the spoils of Power Command and Control Warefare, with it being just too big a small step for men and a giant quantum leap for their kind and a bridge too far for them to cross together, in cahoots with each other and conspiring to create a Unified State of Affairs.
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It is wise to consider and realise that such barriers do not afflict or affect or infect and infest others, as may be clearly enough surmised and be ably enough supported by the evidence presented in the cryptic submissions which can be read here …… http://www.ur2die4.com/140221/ ..... so don't let it be said by anyone or anything that you were never told and forewarned and forearmed.
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IT tells a tale which is not a false trail however improbable one views the possibility. Some, and they be more than just a few and many, might even recognise it as quite laudable and noble honest gospel and support it and in so doing reinforce and invigorate it and even dynamically be enabled to reconfigure it personally with valid valuable valued system input for future systems outputting/sharing.
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Quite whether that be Proprietary Intellectual Property claimed to belong to the Wild Wacky West rather than Exotic Erotic East is another totally different question and a quite private and pirate matter to be considered although most probably not in public lest it terrify and terrorise the natives.
not one but two pussy riot / russia bad stories in the NYT today.
Why do they need minders when the major newspapers and newsstations are owned and run by the usual suspects who hate putin for ejecting their rapacious oligarch cousins from his country?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/opinion/maria-alyokhina-of-pussy-riot-...
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/pussy-riot-putin-and-the-...
I guess our civil liberties over here are all secure then, given the lack of coverage and all.
It is for all to see. In front of our eyes.
http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com/media-and-other-censorships-to-come/
" But everyone should agree on this: The government has no place pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories. "
Niet niet tovaritch, not everyone should agree on this. One of the duties of the government , is to prevent too much dangerous neuronal activity in Americans brains. It's a sanitary measure. Seeing what fiasco Obamacare seems to be, the government has wisely decided to prevent brain surgery, at all cost.
That's why, there will still be free press ... you will have different newspapers : The New-York Pravda, The Washington Pravda, The Sacramento Pravda, The ..... , ....
See ? All those different newspapers .....
with exactly the same contents, of course.
I told you. There is NO "CONSTITUTION" and no "United States", it was Usurped by the installation of British foreign agent Barack Hussein Obama, born British due to a British subject father. There is a reason that the Central bankers want an illegal entity in the Oval Office (When there is no legal "executor of the laws" then there is no law, and the "law" is only what evil men say it is). When ZH starts talking about this, then it will be truly subversive. As of now telling the truth is a revolutionary act--- and we aren't there yet,
Subversive? .gov has spent multiple trillions to keep the fantasy that "all is normal" going, when in fact the real economy is dead (as measured by the production of value). 90% of comments on ZH could be deemed subversive. ZH'ers, myself included, forget that this site represents a microscopic % of population. (see Dec 31st best of ZH) The top 5 rated stories garnered just over 200.000 hits. By the time the point of veiw expressed on ZH is embraced by 3% of population, the anti-subversive laws will have already been implemented. For now, those who see the horrific reality of the world economy, and the propaganda being spewed to keep the masses comfortable in their slavery, are less than a single flea on an elephant.
This is a widely read blog. The truth of the Usurpation of the Presidency and knowledge of it could be spread far and wide by talking about it here. The beatings will continue as long as Obama the domestic enemy Usurper stays in office. Removing him would be a revolutionary act, and the first step in recovering US Citizen sovereignty.
Obama does not receive benefit of the "de facto officer" doctrine, since he has acted in bad faith, and millions are aware of the Usurpation. But many more need to become aware.
i think we are getting close, they have to keep the propaganda from conflicting, this has never worked before though. Whatever it is; it requires goverment agents at media outlets now, its offical.
I remember growing up we sold Kool-Aid for a penny a cup and even then thought it was cheap; now democrats apparently drinks the Kool-Aid for free and lots of it. All stand for the Russian National Anthem...
One of my biggest concerns about the NSA spying on Americans how much was being spent, because if we are spending a lot of money on this consider it a big red flag. It recently came out thanks to information leaked by Edward Snowden that the "black budget" last year was a massive 52 billion dollars.
This is the money used in "secret" spy operations, and it is enough to send shivers down the back of those that have read about the totalitarian society of Oceania described in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In Orwell's novel, all citizens of Oceania are monitored by cameras and are fed fabricated news stories by the government. More on the drirection we are moving in the post below,
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/09/are-we-creating-orwellian-society...