THIS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED!

Submitted by: Debbie Beatty

OBAMA DEMANDS CONTROL OF THE PRESS!

Paul Joseph Watson

Infowars.com
February 19, 2014

The American Center for Law and Justice is warning of an Obama administration plan to place government monitors in newsrooms via an FCC proposal that could turn every major news network and newspaper into little more than a state media mouthpiece.

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai recently lifted the lid on a shocking White House proposal entitled ‘Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs’ that would dispatch researchers from the federal agency “to grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run.”

According to Pai, the program is about “pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories.” In other words – the fairness doctrine on steroids.

“That’s right, the Obama Administration has developed a formula of what it believes the free press should cover, and it is going to send government monitors into newsrooms across America to stand over the shoulders of the press as they make editorial decisions,” writes the ACLJ’s Matthew Clark, noting that the plan would also extend to newspapers, which the FCC doesn’t even have any business being involved with.

Distrust in mainstream media has been on a steady decline for years, with a recent Gallup poll confirming that just 23 per cent of Americans trust the institution of television news. This lack of confidence has driven ratings down, with MSNBC losing almost half of its viewers over the course of just 12 months, shedding 45 per cent of its audience. CNN also lost 48 per cent of its viewers over the same time period.

The United States’ world ranking in terms of freedom of the press also recently fell to number 46, below the likes of South Africa, Slovenia and Lithuania.

Earlier this month, the New York Times’s own writers told a newspaper that NY Times opinion pieces are now seen as “irrelevant” and have no impact on public discourse whatsoever.

The FCC’s attempt to police newsrooms is a desperate attempt to redress the fact that, as Hillary Clinton admitted, the Obama administration is “losing the information war” to other news sources whose audiences are growing.

However, those alternative news outlets are not growing because of slick propaganda, they are stealing audience share from the mainstream because they at least try to act in an adversarial role to the state rather than being a conduit for its talking points.

“Every major repressive regime of the modern era has begun with an attempt to control and intimidate the press,” warns Clark, adding, “It’s hard to imaging anything more brazenly Orwellian than government monitors in newsrooms."”

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Communism under Stalin, Naziism under Hitler, and modern "Liberal Progressivism" ALL share the IDENTICAL fundamental philosophical roots.

Today's rank-and-file liberal progressives, most of whom mean well, are sadly destined to meet the same fate their counterparts in previous eras did: as "useful idiots" for their authoritarian leaders. Smiling and congratulating themselves for their moral goodness, they unwittingly spread the fertilizer and sustenance for the soil which MUST INEVITABLY lead to the growth of oppression, suppression, repression, human enslavement, grinding abject poverty, hunger and even starvation, genocide, war, and the worst kinds of atrocities man has ever been capable of inflicting on his fellow man. They are oblivious to the LOGIC by which the tenets of liberal progressivism MUST INEVITABLY AND UNAVOIDABLY lead to the worst horrors man is capable of inflicting on his fellow man, and which MUST INEVITABLY AND UNAVOIDABLY pave the road to their own and their progeny's hell. They pave it with self-confident smiles, in smug ignorance of the nature of the seeds they are sowing, as did the similarly self-blinded amongst their ancestors..

The histories of mankind's worst evils are the empirical proof of the rigorous logic which lies behind the statements of the above paragraph. Those evils, even the worst of them, do not RESULT from bloodthirsty madmen or power hungry despots. Rather it is the SAME creed of collectivism, at the root of all three of the political forms mentioned above, which ATTRACTS AND ENABLES AND EMPOWERS such men to dominate, and which GUARANTEES that such men and only such men are able to rise to power. This has governed most of the history of mankind and -- with shocking sadness -- continues to govern the thinking of an enormous number of supposedly educated people in the modern era -- which is why we have been steadily moving toward the same consequences, which WILL materialize if this trend of thought persists long enough for its full logical consequences to manifest themselves.

"Those who fail to (UNDERSTAND) the past are condemned to repeat it."

Failure to understand the past seems, unfortunately, destined to be a permanant foible of most members the human family. We saw its devastating operation throughout the last century, the bloodiest in human history, which had followed the most peaceful century of human civilization (if you can call most of it civilization). The 19th century was the era of expanding freedom, the spread and growth of the ideas and implementation of capitalism, and the blasting away of authoritarian/collectivist regimes primarily in Western civilizations but to a significant extent world-wide. The bloody, war-dominated 20th century was the era which witnessed the resurgence of authoritarian/collectivist ideas, which gradually gained ascendancy primarily under the rubrics of socialism, communism, fascism, liberalism and progressivism. The connection between each of the two conflicting political ideas and the kind of world events which accompanied each one, was not not coincidence but causality.

The proof of this assertion is NOT merely the impeccable "theoretical" logic underlying it which has been offered countless times, and NOT ONLY the fact that empirical results have been "consistently consistent" with that theoretical logic, and NOT ONLY BOTH of these together, but also to be found in the fact that its "theoretical" logic has consistently enabled accurate predictions of real-world empirical results time after time after time.