(Mediate) FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal issued a warning to Americans that the agency will be putting ‘government monitors’ in newsrooms to inspect issues such as the amount of time is spent on the “critical information needs of the American public with special emphasis on vulnerable/disadvantaged populations.”
The Obama Administration has no place attempting to “pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories,” writes Pai of the 2013 proposal that would permit government agents to “grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run.”
What a chilling erosion of our sacred 1st Amendment liberties which specifically protects free speech from government interference.
More here FCC Official Warns Agency Could Stifle Freedom of the Press
Related: Sign Petition–No Govt Monitors in Newsrooms –ACLJ
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