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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Liberal Media OK With Federal Agents In The Editors Office (and their pants)

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Roanoke Times, 2-22-2014, pg 4: FCC modifies news media survey after strong backlash.  Faced with an outcry, the FCC chairman said he would amend the effort to asses whether the news media were meeting the public’s “critical information needs”.
The chairman responded to the growing furor by ordering removal of question about news philosophy and editorial judgment.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/21/fcc-backs-off-newsroom-survey-plan/?intcmp=latestnews
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Wow!  Where to begin?
First: This blog focused a segment on this issue: Tuesday, February 11, 2014
FCC Into Media Editors Pants
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/02/fcc-into-media-editors-pants.html
That blog item was met with strong condemnation by a member of the liberal press informing me that this action by the federal government was perfectly OK!
My reply was: would it have been OK if Bush had initiated it?
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Second:  How can anyone in the federal government even begin to think about invading and trespassing into the editorial and news facilities of any media in the United States of America!  And the print media is targeted!  The FCC has never had any rights to intrude into the print media!  Just more of Obama’s “pen and phone” unconstitutional actions.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/02/obama-railed-against-executive-power.html
 If any inquiry into the editorial functions of the media is appropriate it would be the purview of the Graduate Schools of Journalism University’s, not THE government!
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Third: I have Googled this FCC action with ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN and cannot find any coverage or objections to this gross intrusion into their 1st Amendment rights.  Apparently they are OK with all this!  Also, the editors at the Roanoke Times have not expressed any problems with federal government agents joining their morning round-table and shadowing and questioning their reporters.  Wonder why they haven’t invited me for morning coffee?  Oh right – they won’t even print my LTE’s! They’re so fair and balanced!
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Fourth: The only “growing furor” I can find is from FoxNews and those nasty Right-wing extremist blogs and secondary outlets.  Rather like the liberal’s coverage of most of the Obama issues – i.e.: we’re big on the bridge-lane closures, not so much on Benghazi.
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The bottom line: The federal government doesn’t have to analyze and examine the bias and slant of the Roanoke Times.  This blog has been doing that for 9 years and the results are well documented and very clear for all to see!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/
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