FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, who blew the whistle on the federal agency’s plan to study purported bias in the news, says the survey has been "suspended," not canceled as the FCC has said.
The Federal Communications Commission declared last week that it had shelved a controversial survey on how newsrooms cover various news stories, which was derided by critics as a threat to the First Amendment right of press freedom.
But in explaining the decision, FCC spokeswoman Shannon Gilson said that "the pilot will not be undertaken until a new study design is final," suggesting the program could be brought back at a later date.
"It's suspended, and the way I like to think about it is [how] you would think about a baseball game being suspended," Pai told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV. "It’s not being canceled, it could come back," he said Monday.
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Of course it isn't (and never will be) cancelled - it will most assuredly come back in some other disguise, sooner or later. The progs will never stop trying to erode our individual freedoms and anything they can do to add to their control will always find a way into their bag of tricks.
ReplyDeleteYup, never fails.
DeleteRight out of Rules for Radicals. If we were as dedicated to protecting our freedom
ReplyDeleteas they are to destroying it we wouldn't be in this mess.
Yup.
DeleteC'mon, you knew this really wasn't going away. They were just going to repackage it and sell it under a different name after the public was distracted by something else.
ReplyDeleteYes, wonder if anyone has kept count on the Global Warming ones?
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