Government monitors in newsrooms: the solution
by Jon Rappoport
February 19, 2014
Ajit Pai, an FCC commissioner, has blown the whistle on a government plan to put federal monitors in newsrooms.
The plan is billed as a study, to determine how major networks assemble their stories—and also as a teaching program to show newspeople what stories are vital and critical, and what stories aren’t.
The Orwellian op even covers newspapers, to which the FCC has no regulatory connection.
Pai writes in the Wall St. Journal:
“…the agency [FCC] plans to send researchers to grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run. A field test in Columbia, SC, is scheduled to begin this spring.
“The purpose is to ferret out information from television and radio broadcasters about ‘the process by which stories are selected’ and how often stations cover ‘critical information needs,’ along with ‘perceived station bias’ and ‘perceived responsiveness to underserved populations.’”
Keep this in mind: major media outlets are already heavily censored. As collaborators with governments and other corporations, they lie on a regular basis and omit stories that would expose the men who are actually running things.
So this FCC crackdown is about the leftover bones and bits of flesh. “Leave that bone alone. Talk about this bone.”
If media outlets cared about government agents trampling their home turf, they could implement an easy solution and jack up their ratings through the roof.
Film the monitors.
Film everything they say and do. Film them at lunch and in the bathroom. Film them when they’re giving advice about which stories to run and why.
And live-stream that raw film 24/7. Post it online.
Watch the watchers.
Of course, that won’t happen.
Here’s what will happen. Government monitors will say, “That story on transgender 10-year olds? You’re running it at the bottom of the line-up, just before the weather. We think you should put it up higher. And in the story, in paragraph three, we detect a micro-aggression against transgender boys. You should change the wording. The transgender community is underserved. It needs more positive exposure…”
“Why do you keep running stories about Benghazi? That issue is dead. What are you trying to accomplish? You’re showing bias. Instead, you should be highlighting the progress the people of Libya have made since the death of Gaddafi.”
And so on and so forth.
Government news. Don’t worry, be happy.
The upside is, even more people will shut off mainstream news and go to alternative sources.
Meanwhile, the State will shape news tighter, because they believe they can get away with it.
Jon Rappoport
The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
The banks are using media to control the politicians. The gov’t is not controlling the media.
UNBELIEVABLE… If this doesn’t convince the bovine American public that the Infiltrator in the Oval Office is out to steal their way of life out from under them, then I don’t know what will. Jackboots at the door, I guess.
AND… If the Corporate Media doesn’t HONESTLY revolt over this blatant denouncement of their role as “watchdogs of freedom”, in what was once the greatest attempt at governance in Human history — then they have ‘outed’ themselves once and for all as the traitors they are and have always been.
I have less than zero sympathy for the media…they CREATED this monster, and now they’re going to whine about his turning on THEM too! LOL! I guess you really do reap what you sow.
The correct response would be for the media studios to STOP thier monitor at security, and NOT allow him or her to enter the studios. END OF STORY.
@ Defiant,
I’m sure the mainstream media mannequins will make the obligatory 1st Amendment noises for awhile. Then, after THAT show has run its course, they’ll revert to form and roll over like the domesticated, anxious to please little sock puppets that we know them to be.
When will the psyops in newsrooms be exposed ?
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