Can somebody explain to me what the big deal is here? (I am not at all saying that this isn't truly some horrible thing, just that I don't really have a handle on it.)
From what I gather, the FCC apparently info about how news agencies decide which stories to run and if the news presented leaves out info of a "critical" (huh?) nature for the good folks that live in the USA. This is about all that's clear to me now except that such reports have also been compiled in the past (which I read somewhere).
So, if at all possible, can you use historically accurate examples of what the FCC or our government in general has done with such info in the past when and if you're going to predict that some objectionable action is likely to follow as a result of this gathering of info?
Cuz it seems to me that identifying what reasonably important news Americans aren't often given might be legitimately useful for the FCC to decide what kind of new stations should be given preference for new licenses to operate. Although I realize that many will think "keep the gov't out of the news business", I've been reading that 6 companies (the "big six") own 90% of the media outlets in this country and that's somewhat alarming so I'm not so sure I wouldn't be for gathering some hard data about what news is available and how what is available is chosen even if it's just for the purpose of the FCC deciding how it will spend any public money used for news broadcasting so that it would go to some market that that might be under-served (for whatever reason).
Anyway, if this sort of thing is something someone here has some specific knowledge about, please share. (Otherwise I guess I'll be heading over to Reddit which has so many readers that there's seemingly always someone with first-hand experience about almost anything who's willing to write about it.)
