information needs? who is decides what is a critical information need? critical information need is concept you have in kiev or moscow. you don t have it in the united states. martha: wow. charles krauthamer reacting to this proposed fcc plan to study newsrooms to monitor what kinds of stories are being covered. whether or not the voices of some producers are not being heard in the room. krauthamer is hardly alone in his concern here. the fcc chairman responded to the firestorm this created, telling the house energy and commerce committee says his agency has no intention, of his opinion policing newsrooms with this. congresswoman marcia blackburn, vice-chair of that committee joins me now. she is involved in the issue of critical information needs for quite some time. congresswoman, good to have you here. thank you. great to be here. martha: they say, hold on, this isn t anything anyone needs to be worried about. we want to make sure there are no barriers to entry for smaller media o
to the head. a vicious, brutal scene playing out in the streets of kiev as we watch this continue. good morning, everybody, i m here in america s newsroom with eric. martha, hello. i m eric shawn sitting in for bill hammer. after a flflurry of talks, far there is no official word that anything has been signed amid the heart-breaking violence and the heart-breaking scenes we have seen of slaughter. amy, what are the prospects for this deal? well, martha, the words look pretty good indeed, but i think with all of the volatility and the unpredictability of the situation, we certainly can t bank on anything. what we do know at the moment is that a spokesman for one of the top opposition leaders has said that he is about to sign this deal at the presidential headquarters and that this
journalists report the news. a proposed fcc study would send researchers into newsrooms across this country to determine how producers decide which stories to cover. critics say that it is an attempt to regulate news content and they want it scrapped. i m not sure what the intent hyped it is but what i can tell you is a lot of folks that i have heard from the industry are telling me that they are worried about the inadvertent coercion might happen if the fcc says look, we re just asking questions. well, if you re holding a broadcast license that the fcc issues you will not feel like it is entirely voluntary if you have to answer a battery of questions in this 70-some page study. martha: that is interesting from the fcc commissioner. michael warren joins us staff writer from the weekly standard. good to have you here today. morning. martha: interesting comments from mr. pai, given his close proximity to this story and this study. you say that we all need to
is typical of this administration. they say one thing and do another. and this multimarket, critical information needs study where they re going to go into newsrooms and ask eight questions. martha, it is all about controlling content and then being able to prioritize that content as it moves across the airwaves and across the internet. and charles krauthamer is exactly right on this. people should be frightened and fearful of what they are trying to do because the fcc is trying not only to control through the licensing or the spectrum or the broadband process, and that is called net neutrality, but also through the content. and they re doing it through this critical information needs study. martha: and they want, some of these questions deal with content as you say. they want to make sure that the environment and other issues that we know are very close to this administration s heart are being covered in these newsrooms.
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