As a former news reporter, I can tell you, there already is no freedom of speech. First, all major print media are controlled by a few like thinking, Bilderberg types. Certain things get reported and others do not. Pleasing advertisers also limits what might be printed. The shoves which are stuffed into papers produce revenue, and if the content is not liberal enough, they get pulled from that outlet.Even writing the truth about schools is risky, and very difficult to get into print. Even FOX News is only going to go so far, as the dismissal of Glenn Beck shows. Murdoch is on the Council on Foreign Relations. He wants rating, but will only go so far with the truth. Even Hannity will not utter a word about Bohemian Grove, which he attended once. Rush admits there are topics that are taboo for him or he loses his show. The mainstream media are usually owned by Bilderberg members, who swear not to utter a word of what goes on at those meetings. This latest move is cage rattling. They just want to gather information, intimidate, and make sure they know what they think they no. Freedom of the press (or media) is a myth.

Disobey the law. Go into the streets and knock heads. Buy weapons and ammo. Just say no.

WHen I was in elementary school we had hall monitors. They were usually girls. They would threaten to tell on you, tell the teacher, say you'd get in trouble. I always wondered why someone wanted to be a hall monitor and what made them tick. I discovered that getting into trouble wasn't bad. I got out of class and had other boys out in the hall to plot mayhem with. You can have fun with hall monitors and "minders." So plot chaos.

Besides the apparently obvious reasons behind this action there is also the unwritten law of bureaucracies. That is, eventually, the number one function of them is the care, feeding, and expansion of the bureaucracy regardless of whatever reason it was created for in the first place. In this case, through fertilization from the current administration, the FCC may just be popping out of its shell and is about to enter another growth phase.

The FCC has been employing this very same tactic for decades. Nearly as long as we've had TV broadcasters.
Why do you think that broadcasters have to give equal time to political candidates? This is nothing new and is unlikely to change since FCC commissioners are political appointees and depend solely upon Congress for their operating budget.

There's a petition against this activity here: http://dickmorris.rallycongress.com/1434...

Ve have vays of making you shut up!

the question is why aren't the elected members of the congress of the usa starting impeachment procedure?

Joseph Goebbles couldn't have come up with a better set of questions.

There is absolutely no need for the FCC to be in the news rooms of any newspaper. Ever. They have no authority there and should be refused admission when they show up.
If they are allowed in the data collected will fall into so many interpretations that any future administration will be free to pick and choose which set of data to follow and misshape policy with. (I hope that is understandable).

Bye bye freedom of speech in the media!!!