The Patriot Post® · FBI to Start Monitoring the Press

How’s this for controlling narcissistic behavior: The FBI won’t say what it will do with the ratings it intends to collect about the media. The FBI will hire a contractor to read the news and rate stories three ways: positive, neutral or negative towards the FBI. The Washington Times reports, “The move is reminiscent of a similar effort the Obama administration made to grade media coverage of its response to the BP oil spill. A separate defense contract rating reporters’ work was scrapped in 2009.” Maybe Obama’s G-men will blacklist reporters who say bad things about them, or maybe it’s another attempt by the Obama administration to clamp down on the free press. Anyway, note to the FBI’s media-monitoring eyes: This story should be rated as negative. More…