{"id":26069,"date":"2018-04-14T07:34:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T11:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=26069"},"modified":"2020-11-10T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T14:12:21","slug":"stupid-govt-ideas-tracking-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=26069","title":{"rendered":"Stupid govt ideas, Tracking Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. It\u2019s no secret that I consider most \u201cJournalists\u201d to be nothing more then propagandists for the Progressive Liberal Democrats. I\u2019m not alone in this belief. However, the Department of Homeland (In)Security has come up with a really dumb idea.<\/p>\n

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The DHS is looking into building a database that will allow them to track journalists and others who might influence people. Here are the details from Fox News<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security is seeking contractors for the creation of a database that would monitor news outlets around the world and collect information on journalists, bloggers and \u201cmedia influencers.\u201d <\/b>The plan comes amid concerns of so-called \u201cfake news\u201d and its effect on U.S. elections, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. <\/b><\/p>\n

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A DHS solicitation for bids on the project appears on the website FedBizOpps.gov<\/a>. Prospective contractors are invited to contact two DHS staffers, whose email addresses appear in the post. <\/b>DHS spokesman Todd Houlton tweeted Friday that despite what some reporters may suggest, the solicitation is nothing more than the standard practice of monitoring current events in the media.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cAny suggestion otherwise is fit for tin foil hat wearing, black helicopter conspiracy theorists,\u201d he said. <\/b><\/p>\n

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So we\u2019re all being paranoid are we? I think it\u2019s the bureaucrats in the DHS that are being paranoid. Here\u2019s what they are looking for.<\/p>\n

The DHS Media Monitoring<\/a> plan would grant the chosen company \u201c24\/7 access to a password protected, media influencer database, including journalist, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers etc.,\u201d for the purpose of identifying \u201cany and all media coverage related to the Department of Homeland Security or a particular event.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

Oh! So they are looking to get information on anyone who has bad things to say about the Department of Homeland (In)Security? Well I guess I\u2019m on the list.<\/p>\n

According to the document, the public activities of media members and influencers would be monitored by location and beat. Contractors bidding for the project must \u201cpresent contact details and any other information that could be relevant including publications this influencer writes for, and an over of the previous coverage published by the influencer.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

The chosen company must have the ability to track more than 250,000 global news outlets in more than 100 languages, with the \u201cability to create unlimited data tracking, statistical breakdown, and graphical analyses on ad-hoc basis.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

So, they\u2019re expecting the primary bidders to be Facebook, Google and Twitter, right? Did anyone even consider how this is going to look to not only the media, but the general public? Yes, the media is nothing more then an echo chamber for the Swamp dwellers of the Deep State, but tracking them to determine if they are engaging in badthink?<\/p>\n

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Why do In have the sneaking suspicion that the grownups at DHS weren\u2019t aware of this plan, or were \u201cNot fully briefed\u201d on what this was all about? I suspect that President Trump, who is not a micro-manager, wasn\u2019t aware of this bit of lunacy. While he does go after the media, he does it publicly and gets right into their collectivist faces. What DHS is looking at worries me and both President Trump and Congress need to shut this down now and hard.<\/p>\n

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