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No, but I do believe what FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, appointed commissioner by the tyrant Mohammad Obama, who 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 ...
Imagine the outrage from the left if Bush had tried this.
Chilling, isn't it?
I find it SHOCKING that liberals (again) are dismissing this clear intimidation of the media as "trivial" and "nothing to worry about"!
This is analagous to having "political officers" and NKVD officials in Soviet media and military units to insure "proper" activity.
WAKE UP LIBS- LIMITATIONS OF LIBERTY ARE NEVER FAVORABLE. The fact that libs are not outraged demonstrates that they are opponants of liberty and individual rights and favor the "rights" and "priveledge" of the government over the people.
Only the most gullible and foolish would ever believe that nonsense. What on earth is the 'study' for?
The government HAS NO NEED OF KNOWING. The only possible reason it needs to know... Is that it intends to rectify whatever it doesn't like... which would involve long term control over the media.
I can easily see how this can lead to intimidation and control of what is covered by the news reporters. After all, the FCC is the same body that grants licenses. They could delay the granting of a license for years, similar to what the IRS did in targeting Conservative organizations applying for tax exempt status and delaying processing for 1-3 years.
Read all about it, if you value your right to hear all sides of a story:
This is a back door attempt by the administration to control the news and we will be paying for it.
By the way, control of the news is what oppressive regimes do, such as N Korea, China, and still, to a certain extent, Russia. For now, the government is going to do it in a kinder, gentler way.
After all, they are here to help us.
America, as we once knew it, is dead. If you think it exists it's all in your head.
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
The USA Obituary follows:
Born 1776, Died 2012
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota ,points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:
Number of States won by:
Obama: 19 Romney: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Obama: 580,000 Romney: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Obama: 127 million Romney: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Obama: 13.2 Romney: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Romney won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country."
Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase..
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal’s - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years. Oh how will the American left cheer its demise!
Obama said to Medvedev that he would have more flexibility in this LAST election & pass that on to Putin.Obama has a pen & a phone...political commisars ...every breathe you take...every move you make...Obama will be watching you...
Obama has got to be the most self deluded and now paranoid POTUS we've ever had the misfortune of being subjected to. I'll gladly sign the papers to have him committed and put under observation for 48 hours.
Big brother, we're watching YOU.
He is also narcissistic. His narcissism can't take that many bad hits.
Its a study. There are no plans for long term monitors in newsrooms. The only reason for the researchers in the newsroom at all is to examine the decision making process for what is broadcast. If I recall correctly from reading the study the total time would be a month.
Only the most gullible and foolish would ever believe that nonsense. What on earth is the 'study' for?
The government HAS NO NEED OF KNOWING. The only possible reason it needs to know... Is that it intends to rectify whatever it doesn't like... which would involve long term control over the media.
The story: Four companies are taking over local TV stations across the U.S. Gannett, Nexstar, Sinclair and Tribune are using shell companies to dodge the federal ownership rules, consolidate their power and wipe out their competitors. In many communities, one company controls two, three and even four stations — and airs the same news programming on all of these outlets.
Would that be boarders as in snow boarders or boarders as in someone who rents a room from someone else? Either way, I don't think most American's would like the fact that reporters are being restricted on either how they can ski, or where they can live.
I believe it was meant as Canadian borders, as in, those in other countries need to stick to their own problems..
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