US News And quietly in the corner - FCC pushes to regulate news

[The Helper]

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) pushed back on Monday against a contention by a Democratic FCC commissioner that the government should create new regulations to promote diversity in news programming.

Barton was reacting to a proposal made last week by FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, who in a speech suggested that broadcasters be subject to a new "public values test" every four years.

"I hope … that you do not mean to suggest that it is the job of the federal government, through the [FCC], to determine the content that is available for Americans to consume,” Barton wrote Monday in a letter to Copps.

Copps had suggested that the test would make a broadcaster's license renewal contingent upon proof that they meet a prospective set of federal criteria.

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I am sorry but that kind of talk is freaking scary. This should cause an outrage for anyone in the US who cares about free speech and basically this would give the Govt the ability to silence news orgs by taking them off the air.

 

[chanta45]

People need to start standing up for themselves. The people control the country-not the other way around.

Americans stand up for yourself.

 

[Sajin]

The government is starting to overstep their bounds. They don't have the right to do what they want to us, we control them. First they forge lies about the wikileaks guy, now they're trying to control the news? This is just getting out of hand.