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Freedom of the Press — in jeopardy!

ALan Z. Forman, Neighbor

FCC PLAN TO INVADE U.S. NEWSROOMS:
INNOCENT INVESTIGATION… OR 'THOUGHT CONTROL' (AS IN GEORGE ORWELL'S 1984)?

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Is a plan by the Federal Communications Commission to place investigators in newsrooms throughout the country simply an innocent attempt to assess how editorial decisions are made and whether media outlets are biased?

Or is it an extreme violation of Freedom of the Press and the First Amendment?

The FCC "does not and will not interfere in newsrooms or editorial decision making" nor does it intend "to regulate the speech of news media" in America, the agency emphatically declared in a statement released Thursday via email exclusively to Voice of Baltimore's media partner WBFF Fox45-TV.

"Any suggestion the Commission intends to regulate the speech of news media is false," the statement continues, adding that the draft questions in its study for the plan "are being revised to clear up any confusion." ............

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