Washington Times - White House to Sniff Out Newsrooms: ‘Troubling and Dangerous Development’
By Cheryl K. Chumley, WashingtonTimes.com
The Obama administration is pushing forward with a Federal Communications Commission project that would send the nose of government researchers in newsrooms across the country — and First Amendment advocates want to know why.
The touted purpose of the plan is to “identify and understand the critical information needs of the American public, with special emphasis on vulnerable-disadvantaged populations,” the FCC said, Fox News reported. . . .
“This is an extremely troubling and dangerous development that represents the latest in an ongoing assault on the Constitution by the Obama administration,” said Jay Sekulow, the chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, in Fox News. “The federal government has no place attempting to control the media, using the unconstitutional actions of repressive regimes to squelch free speech.”. . .