This has been bouncing around Places like Hotair since last summer and has come to a head. Republican FCC Commisioner Ajit Pai went to the Wall Street Journal (owned by News Corp) to blast his own agency for launching a “study” to send people into news rooms in TV, Radio and newspapers to gather information on how news outlets make their editorial decisions of what gets printed or aired.
This is a really, really big deal if true. Most of TV and Newspapers have been silent because they think this is about “get Fox News”. It’s much more than that. It’s about turning our “free” press into government propaganda outlets through intimidation and regulation and oversight by political technocrats. FCC Democratic stooge Mignon Clyburn has been the force behind much of this.
The FCC’s statement yesterday is weasel talk trying to convince you they suddenly had a pang of conscience or reread their pocket Constitutions. It’s nothing of the kind. They’re just acknowledging they were “outed” and do a better job of hiding it next time.
This thing originated at the Annenberg School for Communications at USC. Here is the report they gave to the FCC about how to evaluate if media are meeting “Critical Information Needs” of the public
http://transition.fcc.gov/bureaus/ocbo/FCC_Final_Research_Design_6_markets.pdf
Zachary Katz has left as chief of staff at the FCC in July 2013 to go to Annemberg when Barack Obama’s friend from Harvard Law School Julius Genachowski left the FCC. Pushing for government overseers inside editorial meetings is a bit easier when you aren’t constrained by the “negative rights” of the Constitution like the right to have a free press.
Annenberg was probably best known for creating TV Guide and running the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was mostly Republican in his politics. In 1988, he sold his publishing business to Rupert Murdoch for $3 billion.
Off topic : I may have just renewed my SiriusXM for the last time. Long live Art! Long live SGR!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552177/Forget-Internet-soon-OUTERNET-Company-plans-beam-free-wi-fi-person-Earth-space.html
I wouldn’t cancel just yet. I would look for a better story written by someone who doesn’t confuse multicasting with multitasking.
The Internet is not broadcasting, it is immediate two way interaction. This sounds somewhat like 1 way satellite Internet, except in low earth orbit. Anyone ho has tried satellite Internet from satellites in geo orbit realizes within a few minutes it will never work as two way communication. Since interaction has to go up 22,500 miles and back to an earth station, on to the destination then the answer has to come back with another 2×22,500 miles, you now have a best case journey of 4×22,500 miles or 90,000 miles. God has this silly 186,000 miles per second speed limit rule, so every time you do something needing to go somewhere and back, it takes a minimum of half a second. If your browser needed to use DNS to look up a domain to make it an IP address, it gets even worse. TCP/IP was designed to deal with long unpredictable latency, but the web isn’t. With 1 way, you use a dial up phone line (or whatever you have) to handle sending in your requests and the satellite streams the result back. That cuts respnse time in half. I don’t know if anyone still offers that service. It has its own complications.
But the idea that someone is going to launch 1000s of tiny satellites into orbit without the blessing of the ITU and China is more than a bit naive. If someone did that, I guess we would find quickly out the state of the art of destroying satellites using high energy lasers.
As you probably saw, these are not geosynchronous. It is cell phone technology but with the users relatively stationary as the towers fly past.
I mentioned low earth orbit – I was explaining why geo will never work.
This smells very much like a pump and dump ploy. The only similar system that offers global access from a network of LEO satellites is Iridium. Their data product is 2400 bps and very expensive. What technology breakthrough will make free wifi from space possible?
In flight internet access is ground based (run by Google) unless you get out over the ocean and then it reverts to being geo satellites with the above limitations, even with UDP multitasking [sic]
I have been and will remain SOL on transpolar flights to Asia from the east coast.
>”I may have just renewed my SiriusXM for the last time.”
Good for you CC !
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Today, Rush spent the 1st hour of his show talking about current news to talk about The Plan and how it relates to the Federal Communications Commission and its insidious attempt to take over the Information Business via the “Critical Information Needs” (“CIN Study”).
CIN, pronounced “SIN” is aptly named.
Once a person opens their mind to the concept that there is little to no difference between the Lunatic Left and the Self-Righteous Right then they will be able to see the coming “Great Backlash”.
Rush is hammering the racial motivations today of Mignon Clyborn and pushing her out into the daylight.
Rush is just exposing the huge irony of the arguments being posed today by the Establishment and their minions. Another example he uses is that on the one hand the assault against football being such a bad sport that The One feels the need to come out and declare he would not allow his son to play it, but practically in the next sentence he praises a gay for playing the sport.
Rush is in part returning to his former means of using ridicule against the facetious arguments being foisted upon the masses by highlighting their ironic, if not moronic, Social Engineering attempts to sway opinion.
Conservatives, Moderates and Independents need to get in the game, and realize there are important primaries coming up, very soon. Stop feeling like there is no way to win.
I’m more than a little puzzled by this NFL “N” word thing. It apparently grew out of some incident that happened away from the game, yet the rule only applies on the field in order to stop it in the parking lot. When they outlawed dancing in the end zone or taunting the other team, that killed any residual interest I had in football – and the TV/Radio announcers are right there drinking the Koolaid
What about the Redskins? Wouldn’t it be more accurate to call them the Brownskins?
I think your are onto something, CC with your assertions about the Redskins. Would it not be more accurate to call their critics the ThinSkins?