What was the FCC's newsroom 'survey' really about? Byron York of the Washington Examiner, via PowerLine, offers an explanation. (York's article is here.)
What really disturbed me is the inane blather about the American public's 'critical information needs'. Here are the eight 'critical information needs' as identified in the proposed study's Executive Summary:
1. emergencies and risks, both immediate and long term;
2. health and welfare, including specifically local health information as well as group specific health information where it exists;
3. education, including the quality of local schools and choices available to parents;
4. transportation, including available alternatives, costs, and schedules;
5. economic opportunities, including job information, job training, and small business assistance;
6. the environment, including air and water quality and access to recreation;
7. civic information, including the availability of civic institutions and opportunities to associate with others;
8. political information, including information about candidates at all relevant levels of local governance, and about relevant public policy initiatives affecting communities and neighborhoods.Some questions:
a. Who are these arrogant assholes who believe they have the right to define for me what my information needs, critical or not, are? (The answer to that question, at least, is here -- see slides 2 and 3.)
b. Are they aware that anybody with enough cognitive ability to walk and chew gum at the same time can find every whit of those 'critical information needs' with a newspaper, radio, telephone book, or internet connection and 2 minutes time?
c. Why is my hard-earned tax money being wasted on these airheads?I have to agree with PowerLine's John Hinderaker and NRO's David French: this is nothing more than the IRS scandal writ large -- an attempt to marginalize conservatives in politics and the media.
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