{"id":526485,"date":"2010-04-13T18:41:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/government-subsidized-news-way-42244\/"},"modified":"2010-04-13T18:41:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:41:58","slug":"is-government-subsidized-news-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526485","title":{"rendered":"Is Government-Subsidized News on the Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 04.13.10 01:00 PM posted by Alex Adrianson<\/p>\n

\n<ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FCC-Seal.jpg">\"\"<\/p>Is the Federal Communications Commission building a case for government-subsidized news? It\u0092s not hard to imagine that will be the outcome of the Commission\u0092s \u0093Future of Media\u0094 inquiry. The digital age has produced a \u0093democratic shortfall,\u0094 according to one source cited in the inquiry\u0092s <ahref="http:\/\/hraunfoss.fcc.gov\/edocs_public\/attachmatch\/DA-10-100A1.pdf">public notice. Another scholar working on the project for the FCC <ahref="http:\/\/freestatefoundation.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/wisdom-and-knowledge-who-to-judge.html">has said that today\u0092s media abundance calls for \u0093public media entities\u0094 that will serve \u0093as both a filter to reduce information overload and a megaphone to give voice to the unheard.\u0094<\/p>\n

In other words, a free marketplace of ideas isn\u0092t good enough for some. They want the government to pick winners and losers\u0097as long as the winners express views with which they happen to agree. Care to guess which views those will be?<spanid="more-31215"><\/span><\/p>\n

<ahref="http:\/\/freestatefoundation.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/wisdom-and-knowledge-who-to-judge.html">As Randolph May of the Free State Foundation notes, the justifications for a government role in controlling content are ever shifting. Once, alleged scarcity was the reason that the FCC could impose the fairness doctrine on radio without running afoul of the First Amendment. (See, for instance, the Supreme Court\u0092s 1969 <ahref="http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/printer_friendly.pl?page=us\/395\/367.html">Red Lion<\/i> decision.) Now it\u0092s not scarcity but abundance that government is supposed to fix by acting as a filter. Meanwhile, the FCC has no problem telling private industry that filtering content is a no-no. Disallowing Internet service providers from discriminating among sources or kinds of content is the intent of the Commission\u0092s push for net neutrality.<\/p>\n

If you are concerned about what the FCC is up to with its \u0093Future of Media\u0094 inquiry, then you should attend the Free State Foundation\u0092s event this Friday at noon at the National Press Club. The event, titled \u0093<ahref="http:\/\/www.freestatefoundation.org\/images\/Future_of_Media_Event_Flyer_031810.pdf">The FCC\u0092s \u0091Future of Media\u0092 Inquiry: What Is the FCC Is Doing \u0096 And Why?\u0094 features a presentation from Steven Waldman, who is leading the FCC\u0092s inquiry. That will be followed by a discussion from a panel of three experts on communications policy: Catholic University professor and Free State Foundation fellow Donna Coleman Gregg, James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal<\/i>, and former FCC commissioner and current Free State Foundation fellow Deborah Taylor Tate.<\/p>\n

<ahref="http:\/\/www.insideronline.org\/blogarchive.cfm?month=4&year=2010&blogid=F8329D1C-E761-96BF-99F3C94B6CFC87C4">Cross-posted at <ahref="http:\/\/www.insideronline.org">InsiderOnline.<\/p>\n

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On 04.13.10 01:00 PM posted by Alex Adrianson <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FCC-Seal.jpg"><\/p>Is the Federal Communications Commission building a case for government-subsidized news? It\u0092s not hard to imagine that will be the outcome of the Commission\u0092s \u0093Future of Media\u0094 inquiry. The digital age has produced a \u0093democratic shortfall,\u0094 according to one source cited in the inquiry\u0092s <ahref="http:\/\/hraunfoss.fcc.gov\/edocs_public\/attachmatch\/DA-10-100A1.pdf">public notice. Another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}