FCC Temporarily Throws In the Towel on Explosive Monitoring Newsrooms the way they do totalitarian countries like Hitler’s Germany

I’m not going sugarcoat what President Obama’s FCC wants to do to stifle real journalism that is practices at Fox News and conservative blogs like this one. 

Have you notice have you notice how the vast majority of the corrupt media ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC have nothing to say about this story? That’s because they already carry the water for the Democrat Party agenda and take their talking points from the White House as we speak. 

National Review reports the Federal Communications Commission has pulled the plug on its plan to conduct an intrusive probe of newsrooms as part of a “Critical Information Needs” survey of local media markets.

However, a revised version of the survey could raise new concerns: that it will trade its now-kiboshed news questions for a demographic survey that might justify new race-based media ownership rulemaking.

“[I]n the course of FCC review and public comment, concerns were raised that some of the questions may not have been appropriate,” the FCC announced in a statement Friday. “Chairman [Tom] Wheeler agreed that survey questions in the study directed toward media outlet managers, news directors, and reporters overstepped the bounds of what is required. Last week, Chairman Wheeler informed lawmakers that that Commission has no intention of regulating political or other speech of journalists or broadcasters and would be modifying the draft study. Yesterday, the Chairman directed that those questions be removed entirely.”

The Critical Information Needs (CIN) survey has been a slow-burning controversy since ever since this reporter first revealed its existence in October 2013.

First Amendment supporters objected that the design of the survey would have had FCC representatives interrogating newsroom staffers about how they make coverage decisions and select (or spike) story ideas. Many commentators objected to the potential intimidation involved in such a survey.

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Obama hates that there are outlets that don’t suck up to him and the truth.