The Blaze - Obama Administration’s Plan to Study Newsrooms Is Drawing Plenty of Public Opposition
By Fred Lucas, TheBlaze.com
A plan by the Federal Communications Commission to study how news organizations select stories has prompted about 10,000 people to sign a petition saying “no government monitors in newsrooms.”
That’s according to the American Center for Law and Justice, which announced the petition Wednesday and said it reached that number within the first two hours.
The agency announced a Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs last year, explaining that it wanted to understand the process of which stories are selected, station priorities, content production, populations served, perceived station bias, and perceived percent of news dedicated to each of the “critical information needs” (CINs) in a community, Fox News reported.