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Well, it's disintegrating in city after city. We talk to journalists, we got into city after city and we say to old timers, we say, How many paid reporters are there in your city today, editors, reporters. Include sports, weather, the works. Editorials function compared to a generation ago in your city? [MOD CUT/copyright] [/b]
For those of you who didn't take notes, "monitor" equals "censor" and "censor" equals "China".
The U.S. doesn't have a free press anymore under the Obama Admin.
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The United States plunged 14 places in the annual Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday. The group said it was "one of the most significant declines" in press freedom it had tracked during 2013.
The US in now ranked 46th on the RWB list, in between Romania and Haiti. It was ranked 32nd in the 2013 index. (Finland tops the entire list.)
The press freedom group was blunt in its explanation. It cited increased efforts to track down whistleblowers and the sources of leaks, mentioning Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden in particular. It also condemned the Justice Department's surveillance of reporters, and the continued leak battle facing New York Times journalist James Risen.
You are as blind as a bat, the perfect kind of person comrade obama loves. Not smart enough to see what he is attempting to do to the country..
God forbid that the FCC might sponsor a study demonstrating to what extent that access to news and information is increasingly controlled by a few corporate organizations and individuals. Just not ignore the fact that in certain markets the take over is virtually complete with little or no access to local content or coverage of local issues.
God forbid that the FCC might sponsor a study demonstrating to what extent that access to news and information is increasingly controlled by a few corporate organizations and individuals.
Our press is muzzled by the Obama Admin. Read my link, posted above.
I am willing to bet that the ABC, NBC CBS and Al jezarah Have no monitors assigned to them yet FOX will. This is more of using the government to attack those he sees as an enemy
God forbid that the FCC might sponsor a study demonstrating to what extent that access to news and information is increasingly controlled by a few corporate organizations and individuals. Just not ignore the fact that in certain markets the take over is virtually complete with little or no access to local content or coverage of local issues.
You think I'm the blind one?
That's not likely to be revealed by the cameras and secondly, it's not the role of the government to determine who controls the news organizations and whether or not they cover local issues. If they wanted to demonstrate that, they could simply reveal who owns what networks, it's public information. They could determine local content by studying what's on tv versus having a camera in the newsroom.
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.
The internet is making it all a bit irrelevant. I'm sure it won't be long before the government decides to "moniter" your decision there also.
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