FCC Assault On News Media

[southwind]

Did you hear that on a federally licensed radio station?

Sure wasn't a Libtard station...they're all out of business!

 

[Dog Wonder]

Some people have moved on from AM radio.

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI

ON THE SUSPENSION OF THE CRITICAL INFORMATION NEEDS STUDY

"I welcome todays announcement that the FCC has suspended its Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs, or CIN study. This study would have thrust the federal government into newsrooms across the country, somewhere it just doesnt belong. The Commission has now recognized that no study by the federal government, now or in the future, should involve asking questions to media owners, news directors, or reporters about their practices. This is an important victory for the First Amendment. And it would not have been possible without the American people making their voices heard. I will remain vigilant that any future initiatives not infringe on our constitutional freedoms."

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0221/DOC-325727A1.pdf

 

[delldude]

STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI

ON THE SUSPENSION OF THE CRITICAL INFORMATION NEEDS STUDY

"I welcome todays announcement that the FCC has suspended its Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs, or CIN study. This study would have thrust the federal government into newsrooms across the country, somewhere it just doesnt belong. The Commission has now recognized that no study by the federal government, now or in the future, should involve asking questions to media owners, news directors, or reporters about their practices. This is an important victory for the First Amendment. And it would not have been possible without the American people making their voices heard. I will remain vigilant that any future initiatives not infringe on our constitutional freedoms."

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0221/DOC-325727A1.pdf

 
This time.......
 
And a tragedy for the Obama Administration......

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

Did you notice that was from the FCC Commish...from the Obama admin?

Seems somebody overreached ala the IRS case and had their ass handed to them.

 

[delldude]

Made public by one of the FCC commision members........

 

[delldude]

AJIT PAI should be a hero, he's the one who went to the press and made this public.
 
The plan was already set to start. FCC was wrong.......Lot of phone calls from media wonks I bet.
 
Great day for the Constitution.

 

[delldude]

Did you notice that was from the FCC Commish...from the Obama admin?

Seems somebody overreached ala the IRS case and had their ass handed to them.

 
My my......the old George Soros CT is alive and well in the Obama administration.
 

 

The FCC may have suspended its invasion into American newsrooms, but the controversial "Critical Information Needs" study also has George Soros' fingerprints all over it.
While disturbing, this should come as no surprise since Soros' gave more than $52 million to media organizations from 2000-2010.
Two schools were working with FCC on the project, according to Byron York of The Washington Examiner. The University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Communication and Democracy, were tasked by the FCC with coming up with criteria for what information is "critical" for Americans to have. The FCC study would have covered newspapers, websites, radio and television, according to The Washington Post.
On top of the 1st Amendment problems with this proposal, the schools involved have strong ties to liberal billionaire George Soros' Open Society Foundations and have gotten more than $1.8 million from since 2000.
The journalism programs at these schools have even more ties to Soros besides their funding, including faculty members writing for university-based publications allied with Soros-funded outlets.
The schools have collaborated on this project going back at least to 2012. Lewis A. Friedland, who was a "principle investigator" for the FCC on this project, also directs the Center for Communication and Democracy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He gave a presentation at Annenberg in Feb. 2012, on "communication ecology." This was just four months before the schools presented their findings to the FCC.
Tracking the $8.5 billion Soros-foundation world is challenging because he funds so much and many of those organizations then partner or even fund one another.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison got a whopping $1,672,397 from Soros between 2000 and 2012. The university also offers OSI-sponsored grants, scholarships and fellowships. Friedland also heads Madison Commons, a liberal journalism group "powered by" the university's School of Journalism. Madison Commons, in turn, is a project of the university but supported in part by American University's J-Lab. AU, including its Cairo campus, has received $588,395 from OSF since 2008.
The University Of Wisconsin School Of Journalism's left-wing tilt has caused controversy before. The school also houses the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. That center narrowly avoided being banned from the campus when Gov. Scott Walker vetoed legislation that questioned the use of state funds to support a journalism group with a liberal agenda. The center has been a member of the Investigative News Network since 2011. This liberal network of journalism groups got $150,000 from Soros in 2012.
Madison's partner in the project, the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, got $120,000 from Soros' Open Society Foundations in 2012. This is in addition to $75,000 given to the school as a whole in 2005, adding up to $195,000. The school has also partnered with Soros' Open Society Institute on at least two occasions: once when the Open Society Institute funded a week-long conference on "ethnic media" put on by the school, and once when it coordinated a journalism project in South Africa with the help of a grant from the South African branch of the Open Society Foundations, for which we do not have access to tax returns.
Ajit Pai, a Republican FCC commissioner, brought attention to the program in a Feb. 10 opinion piece. He has praised the suspension of the study, saying that "no study by the federal government, now or in the future, should involve asking questions to media owners, news directors, or reporters about their practices."
- See more at: http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/mike-ciandella/universities-fcc-newsroom-probe-have-close-ties-soros-got-18m-funding#sthash.5sw7YISq.3k4Fl1Nv.dpuf

 

[southwind]

Did you notice that was from the FCC Commish...from the Obama admin?

Seems somebody overreached ala the IRS case and had their ass handed to them.

You were saying...................
 
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individual to a key Administration post:

• Ajit Varadaraj Pai- Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/10/31/president-obama-announces-another-key-administration-post

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

That was kind of my whole point. If anyone tries to shut down one platform, people will not only shift to another, but also waste no time "reporting" the attempted closure of the first. I would have to think that the FCC would have to shut down radio, television, access to the internet, and cell phone networks to even attempt anything meaningful...

From a technical point of view we really only have 2 "mediums" when it comes to electronic communication.
 
Fiber Optic/Electrical infrastructure: television (cable at least), internet, cell phones.
 
Radio Waves: over-the-air (rapidly declining) and satellite television, AM/FM/XM radio, satellite phones (uncommon) and some point to point computer networks (rare).
 
Some use a combination of the two (cell phones for instance).
 
 
 
All are closely mandated by the FCC, as delldude has stated.

I think in a case like you mention, it would be in the blink of an eye, so to speak.First down would be personal/social media. So no where to go except ' official speak '.
FCC is already back pedaling. This smells like a basis for some unconstitutional federal regulations in the future. Want your license?? Follow the reg's.
Tell me the first amendment hasn't already been licensed.

As a society we should not be so quick to abandon print.

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

You were saying...................
 
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individual to a key Administration post:

• Ajit Varadaraj Pai- Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/10/31/president-obama-announces-another-key-administration-post

What is your point?

I posted that he is an FCC Commissioner.

 

[Kev3188]

From a technical point of view we really only have 2 "mediums" when it comes to electronic communication.
 
Fiber Optic/Electrical infrastructure: television (cable at least), internet, cell phones.
 
Radio Waves: over-the-air (rapidly declining) and satellite television, AM/FM/XM radio, satellite phones (uncommon) and some point to point computer networks (rare).
 
Some use a combination of the two (cell phones for instance).

That's true, but each are easily subverted, too.
 
 
 

As a society we should not be so quick to abandon print.

Agreed, but that's a tough sell (no pun intended) when you're in a society that's now conditioned to get it's information on demand from a device they can carry in their pocket...

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

That's true, but each are easily subverted, too.

Subverted?

Agreed, but that's a tough sell (no pun intended) when you're in a society that's now conditioned to get it's information on demand from a device they can carry in their pocket...

Conditioned?
 
 
 
Interesting words.
 
You are more right than you know. What better way to manipulate a society than to bombard them with nonstop information pushing a socialist agenda under the guise of "news and entertainment at your fingertips".

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

You are more right than you know.

I am sure Kev is relieved to get your assurance.

What better way to manipulate a society than to bombard them with nonstop information pushing a socialist agenda under the guise of "news and entertainment at your fingertips".

What better way to manipulate a society than to bombard them with nonstop information pushing a (insert here) agenda under the guise of "news and entertainment at your fingertips".

Most of the far right and far left media outlets, talk radio, etc., have almost perfected the practice. It has worked on you. They have conditioned you to hate all gays. They have manipulated you to think that any liberal thinking person is stupid. They have manipulated you to have you think that all schools are socialist. I could go on, but you stopped reading after the word gay appeared in the post.

 

[delldude]

I am sure Kev is relieved to get your assurance.


What better way to manipulate a society than to bombard them with nonstop information pushing a (insert here) agenda under the guise of "news and entertainment at your fingertips".

Most of the far right and far left media outlets, talk radio, etc., have almost perfected the practice. It has worked on you. They have conditioned you to hate all gays. They have manipulated you to think that any liberal thinking person is stupid. They have manipulated you to have you think that all schools are socialist. I could go on, but you stopped reading after the word gay appeared in the post.

 
Dude.....you offer some good points.
However, after the hilighted red portion , you show it is working on you, too.
Many have heard me refer to Saul Alinsky and his 'Rules for Radicals'. Big friggin joke....conspiracy theory.....blah blah blah.
You should research him.....ever hear of SDS?  Big time student advocacy group of the sixties...went heavy left....like borderline socialist/communist.......started a heavy left movement that drew many all-stars you are familiar with today. All out of the sixties anti-war movement. Good cause, anti-war but somewhere it got a little perverted and those in charge had grand visions....utopia society and all that.
Followers of this ideology have names like Ayers, Dorhn, Clinton, many of Obama's handlers from the sixties, State Sen.Tom Hayden(who was one of the founders of SDS, helped initiate in 2008 Progressives for Obama), Rev Jim Wallis, Wade Rathke (head of Acorn where Obama worked), Dude,the list goes on quite a bit.
Like minded people from the sixties left have, over the years gotten into many influential positions in media, local,state and federal government.
Do some research......and one of the tactics that has proven very workable is Alinsky's rules for radicals. DNC uses it like a playbook.
America has been hoodwinked by these tactics to formulate opinion of the right, feed misinformation to the populace for political gain and so on. Study the rules,Dude. It's all there right out in the open.
 
This has been the game for the left since the late sixties right up to now.
 
This is what the true 'Progressives' are all about. Many Democrats get touchy feely with the progressive words but most don't realize what the core is really up to. Its no secret Obama and the likes of Pelosi, Schumer, Reid and so on have driven the Democrat Party to the very extreme left. Just about to the point there are no true Democrats anymore.....most of that ideology is what you call the GOP today. What was true Republicans they call Tea Party Radicals now.
 
You know how to eat an elephant? One bite at a time. That's how you change a country into some kind of Marxist utopia. You elect people over time......Dem's didn't take control one fine day, they kept spending and winning elections and putting their people into positions of power and control. Look at the Legislative branches today. It's not a secret anymore who identifies with the socialists.....soon it'll be the same way with Marxists and Communists.  CNN Van Jones, card carrying Communist and proud of it.....RT News, Al Jazeera.....
 
Think it all a fluke?
 
Educate yourself.