(Updated) File: The Takeover of America: Marxist Oriented FCC under Obama is determined to "supervise" our national news media. this is where the Democrat Party has gone. UPDATE: We won !! The FCC backed down Friday evening.

Understand that this issue,  the government suddenly using the licensing power of the FCC to question what news is being covered and what is being presented to the public, is forging ahead,  "amendments" not withstanding.    OF COURSE,  the first steps,  in this regard,  will not include federal orders,  but, given enough time,  we all know where this is heading.  The Democrat Party has made it clear,  during the Obama years especially,  that it no longer reveres the 1st Amendment,  the 2nd, Amendment,  the 4th Amendment,  the 10th Amendment and the 14th Amendment,  among others.  The Party leans heavily into Marxism and Central
Control.  The Party despises opposition opinion and has come to believe that now is the time to eliminate this Constitutional  "nuisance"

WaPo:

A proposed government study of how media organizations gather news has incited a powerful backlash, particularly among conservatives, who said that it could be part of an official effort to intimidate or second-guess journalists.

Faced with an outcry, the Federal Communications Commission’s chairman said Thursday that he would amend the effort — intended to assess whether the news media were meeting the public’s “critical information needs” — by removing questions that critics had deemed invasive.

The FCC last year proposed an analysis of news content from newspapers, Web sites and radio and TV stations. The agency said it wanted to assess the coverage of eight “critical information” subjects, including public health, politics, transportation, the environment and “economic opportunities.”

As the survey was originally designed, government researchers would have asked reporters, anchors and news managers at as many as 280 news organizations to describe their outlet’s “news philosophy” and about how they selected stories.

Among the questions the FCC proposed asking journalists: “Have you ever suggested coverage of what you consider a story with critical information for your [viewers, listeners or readers] that was rejected by management?” And: “What was the reason given for the decision?”

The idea first proved controversial within the FCC, which is an independent agency that currently has a majority of Democrat . . .  commissioners. [Editor's notes:  But,  of course,  the Commison's majority are led by Obama and his anti-colonial,  transforming America, policies ~ blog editor]  One of its Republican commissioners, Ajit Pai, blasted the proposed study in an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal last week. “The government has no place pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories,” he wrote.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler responded to the growing furor Thursday by ordering the removal of questions about news philosophy and editorial judgment.

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