CNN’s Don Lemon lets slip what we all know: “As a journalist, you weigh how much you should criticize the president because he’s black,” but goes on, “but then you have to do it because ultimately, you’re a journalist.” Not all of them quite get to that second part. read more
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The Washington Post’s headline “Conservative backlash kills FCC plan to survey America’s newsrooms” speaks volumes. Indeed, only conservatives fought back against the invasion of America’s newsrooms by the agency which licenses them. Only conservatives fought against the incursion into the press’s freedom to report without being accountable to the government. At RATM we are constantly shocked …
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Hmmm….. all this talk about calling in the FCC to monitor newsrooms gives us an idea. Not that we want them monitored, mind you – not at all. But they have a mechanism for complaining about “rigging or slanting the news” so it would be wrong of us not to speak up, right? From the …
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Young Conservatives shared the twitter exchange between the star of FX’s “Justified,” conservative actor Nick Searcy, and the liberal site Raw Story: RAW: How would you describe yourself in your own words? SEARCY: Not playing. Go back to your hit pieces on Christianity and decent Americans who disagree with you. for the rest, click here
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Eric Cantor’s challenger, progressive Democrat Mike Dickinson, has distinguished himself by siccing the FCC specifically on Fox. From his tweets: “Fox News does nothing but tell lies and mistruths. They have unqualified political analysts. We need FCC to monitor and regulate them.” “Fox News should be presented as entertainment. It’s like mad magazine if Alfred …
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In our continuing effort to empower with the truth, here is an aggregation of some of the best articles on the FCC overreach and reports of their “backing off.” From FCC Commissioner Ajit Pac in the WSJ, the article that seems to have started the outrage and successful pushback: The FCC Wades Into the Newsroom …
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