Behold the Obama administration's creepy plan to put FCC monitors in America's newsrooms

◼ Hey, you know what's a pain in the rump for the ruling class? That pesky "freedom of the press," that's what. - Robert Laurie/CainTV

If only there was a way for Obama's FCC to get the First Amendment under control.

◼ From Mediaite:

An FCC commissioner is warning people about an agency study that would bring government monitors into newsrooms and inspect issues like the amount of time spent on the “critical information needs” [CIN's] of Americans in news content.

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal bringing people’s attention to this study, saying “the government has no place pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories.” And while participation is technically voluntary, ignoring them would not be a wise decision for any news outlet that wants an FCC license.

The FCC has evidently cooked up eight "CIN's" that it feels outlets should be covering. Their study would demand that news departments answer a series of questions designed to “ascertain the process by which stories are selected, station priorities (for content production quality, and populations served), perceived station bias, perceived percent of news dedicated to each of the eight CIN's and perceived responsiveness to underserved populations."

They also want to "understand the critical information needs of the American public. One of the issues addressed in the study is how these CINs are framed, and whether said framing does enough do give viewers the full context of the story."
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◼ FCC retreats a little more from editorial-bias study - Ed Morrissey/HotAir

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