The Media Research Center is run by Brent Bozell, who is the president's nominee to run USAGM, operator of VOA. We are talking about government funded media. If this is an indication of how he's going to run VOA, it's not good. As we have said, the government doesn't fund NPR or PBS. It funds CPB. The fact that Bozell doesn't understand that shows how little he really knows.
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The FCC to investigate Audacy owned KCBS(AM)/KFRC-FM over ICE coverage
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Not the CEO, does not control the content or do many of the other things that the alt-right has thrown at him.
Censorship, intimidation and attempts to force various media to bend to the will (and lies) of one party? That's coming from one party for the benefit of one party. Right, Chairman Carr?
It's appropriation, just like how the MAGAs have appropriated the word "woke" to mean basically anything on the left, and "DEI" to refer to anything related to immigration and related subjects. They've also taken to policing for words they deem "woke" or "DEI", such as the word "gay."
To that effect, I recently heard a news report (on KCBS, as a matter of fact) about the government scrubbing tends of thousands of photos from various governmental websites based on their filenames or metadata containing certain "woke" words and phrases, often in such a haphazard way that many of the photos they're scrubbing have nothing whatever to do with "wokeness" (such as the Enola "Gay," for example).
I know some people who are still somehow defying reality by saying things like this (systematic purging of government for purposes of personal enrichment, curtailment of the free speech rights of the media (online, print and broadcast) and vindictive persecution of perceived political enemies, the complete destruction and reversal of important climate and public health initiatives, and spiteful and mean spirited deportation of immigrants regardless of criminality or legal status (many are asylum seekers, and are trying to go through legal channels, and they're being unfairly lumped together with the relatively few genuine criminals that are trying to do harm, such as drug traffickers and smugglers), to name just a few examples) is somehow good, which I find deeply concerning because how can any of this be good? So far, Trump has reneged on almost every campaign promise and has come un well below expectations on the few that he didn't, and that's somehow good?
These people I know are otherwise quite nice and like them a lot, but gee whiz are they ignorant!
Little do they know that they'll be getting more than what they bargained for....
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To that effect, I recently heard a news report (on KCBS, as a matter of fact) about the government scrubbing tends of thousands of photos from various governmental websites based on their filenames or metadata containing certain "woke" words and phrases, often in such a haphazard way that many of the photos they're scrubbing have nothing whatever to do with "wokeness" (such as the Enola "Gay," for example).
I know some people who are still somehow defying reality by saying things like this (systematic purging of government for purposes of personal enrichment, curtailment of the free speech rights of the media (online, print and broadcast) and vindictive persecution of perceived political enemies, the complete destruction and reversal of important climate and public health initiatives, and spiteful and mean spirited deportation of immigrants regardless of criminality or legal status (many are asylum seekers, and are trying to go through legal channels, and they're being unfairly lumped together with the relatively few genuine criminals that are trying to do harm, such as drug traffickers and smugglers), to name just a few examples) is somehow good, which I find deeply concerning because how can any of this be good? So far, Trump has reneged on almost every campaign promise and has come un well below expectations on the few that he didn't, and that's somehow good?
These people I know are otherwise quite nice and like them a lot, but gee whiz are they ignorant!
Little do they know that they'll be getting more than what they bargained for....
c
Please! There is nothing here about radio... except where you heard the report you mention... and this is a radio and TV board, not a political one.
In today's social and political climate, it is hard to stay away from politics, but this is not the board for that. *
(I left the post as an example, BTW)
The part of it that relates to radio is the sense that the people regulating radio don't know radio. Here we have a local all-news radio station that was doing local news coverage, and it's now being investigated by the big government regulators in DC because they read and believed an online post. Meanwhile this same big government regulator says he wants to promote local news coverage. Doing a government investigation of a local news radio station doesn't promote local news coverage. It's nice that the regulators have personal opinions, but that's not what they're being paid to do. They need to regulate without the political bias that they're so quick to claim about others.
Audacy shakes up C-suite; Kelli Turner named permanent CEO
Audacy on Monday named Kelli Turner to the role of chief executive on a permanent basis, part of a broader shake-up of the company's C-suite
thedesk.net
Here is the current CEO of Audacy and it's Kelli Turner. Yes given that the new CEO is currently in charge of Audacy she still has to deal with their all-news stations facing FCC threats like KCBS and their affiliates over their news coverage of ICE.
In this case, the issue is whether a radio reporter gave out information that could have warned criminals of their impending raid. If this is the case (and it appears that it is not), the station would be subject to sanctions about impeding an active police activity.
I am watching this carefully, as there is a fine line between reporting and respecting ongoing police activities. In WW II, journalists were highly restricted in reporting about things like troop movements they saw at allied bases in England and elsewhere because they knew that such information could kill American soldiers if released too soon.
As we've said, the raid was already happening. That's what the news anchor was reporting. He can't warn them if it's already in progress.
What we have is someone in the FCC reading a social media post from a biased source, and then ordering an investigation without checking if the original accusation is true. He is finding a radio station guilty before the trial. The FCC can simply do a cross agency investigation to get the timeline. It's all very easy. If you want to follow the law.
The premise for this has nothing to do with security. He says so in his order for the investigation. He has already concluded that this happened because of a person who invested in the company that owns the radio station, which is absurd. We are not in a state of war. So bringing up WW2 is also absurd.
Speaking of KCBS:
www.insideradio.com
KCBS Host Doug Sovern Announces Retirement After Four Decades In Radio.
Doug Sovern, political reporter at Audacy’s all-news KCBS Radio in San Francisco, says he’s calling it a career at the end of April, according to a report by the San
Justice Department says it will resume practice of obtaining reporters' records in leak inquiries
The Justice Department is poised to crack down on leaks of information to the news media, authorizing prosecutors to issue subpoenas to news organizations as part of leak investigations, serve search warrants when appropriate and force journalists to testify about their sources.
apnews.com
Here is a similar tactic the DOJ is using and it resembles the same stuff we said about the FCC and how its responding to various media reports. In this case the DOJ is responding to "Leaks" to the media yes this time its going to include how wire services handle leaks.
However the leaks are coming from inside cabinet and specifically how Pentagon handles sensitive info. The problem here is that wire services like AP and Reuters are going to get hit hard on this in the same way other media outlets are getting hit by how the FCC defines leaks.
Trump met with ‘Signalgate’ reporter. What we know
President Donald Trump was scheduled to meet Thursday with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, despite steadily criticizing the magazine and its work.
Three Hegseth aides ousted in leak investigation decry 'baseless attacks'
Three former senior advisers to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are decrying what they called “baseless attacks” after each was escorted from the Pentagon in an expanding probe on information leaks.
apnews.com
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