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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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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So they’ve “backed off,” at least for the time being. Or so they say. From FoxNews: “The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday that it was putting on hold a controversial study of American newsrooms, after complaints from Republican lawmakers and media groups that the project was too intrusive.” read more The best part, though, is …
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Oh, the irony! Huffington Post can’t bear to actually report the FCC’s power grab, but instead piggybacks on Fox’s story. Can’t you imagine the “news”room over at Huff? “This actually a huge story”“Yeah, but we can’t possibly cover it!”“I know, let’s get FOX to do it!” How’s that for responsible journalism?We’re guessing they’re just a …
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