Connections include partnerships with Soros foundation on events, projects.
Mike Ciandella
CNSNews
2/21/2014
The FCC may have suspended its invasion into American newsrooms, but the controversial “Critical Information Needs” study also has George Soros’ fingerprints all over it.
While disturbing, this should come as no surprise since Soros’ gave more than $52 million to media organizations from 2000-2010.
Two schools were working with FCC on the project, according to Byron York of The Washington Examiner. The University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Communication and Democracy, were tasked by the FCC with coming up with criteria for what information is “critical” for Americans to have. The FCC study would have covered newspapers, websites, radio and television, according to The Washington Post.
On top of the 1st Amendment problems with this proposal, the schools involved have strong ties to liberal billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and have gotten more than $1.8 million from since 2000…
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A Harvard University feminist student writing in the campus newspaperThe Crimson recently posited this:
“If our university community opposes racism, sexism, and heterosexism, why should we put up with research that counters our goals simply in the name of “academic freedom”?…
Hey statists! Socialists! You don’t have the right to control the delivery of the news! That isn’t up to you. Freedom of the press, remember?
And just a note. While they have said they will “scale back the intrusive questions”, they still intend to do the study (translate: wait for the din to quiet down)…
Watch the other hand…
