Hitler had a way:
1. Force all German broadcasters to carry only government propaganda
2. Sell "affordable" radios to the sheeple that could only pick up local stations
3. Make it illegal to listen to foreign broadcasts.
Problem solved.
Posted on 08/19/2009 10:03:17 AM PDT by John Semmens
Mark Lloyd, a former senior fellow at the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress, who has been named the FCC’s new “chief diversity officer” has proposed that talk radio “use the profits made from airing right-wing programs to support an equal quantity of opposing views.” Under his proposal, the FCC would assess talk radio stations a fee equal to their profits. This money would then be turned over to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Lloyd admitted that the money spent on alternative views wouldn’t guarantee an equivalent audience. “We can air counter-programming, but we can’t make people listen, at least yet,” Lloyd conceded.
A likely outcome as Lloyd sees it would be a shift away from the talk radio format. “Faced with heavy fees, many stations will switch to other formats like music or sports,” Lloyd predicted. “This should have a more calming influence on the general public. And, let’s face it, a more agreeable disposition and a less contentious way of life will be healthier all around.”
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Liberals are always willing to solve problems that don’t exist.
What next, thought crimes ?
They try to do this and it will be tied up in the courts for a long...LOOOOONG time....
Embarrassed to say I fell for it until the third paragraph.
This a Bill of Attainder as it only targets one industry. Now making all successful businesses pay for their competition, that’s fair. In fact, I now declare myself a competitor of MicroSoft.
and do it with somebody elses money.
It won’t pass. If this makes sense then why not do the same with the beer industry...the newspaper industry...the peanut butter industry...the hair shampoo industry...etc.
I don’t remember Jefferson inserting a “fair and balanced” statement into the Constitution. Of anyone...he would likely say that life’s unfair and just suck it up.
And I’ll add this...I have little left in my mind to support the government and its NPR mix. I’d rather see it slide to individual state-run or just plain commercial-run...rather than stay federal-run.
Mark Lloyd the FCC Diversity Tzar has proposed this idea for real. But whether or not it comes to fruition, it will be a FCC regulatory change, not requiring passage by either House. And yes they could do anything they want to all those other industries by having a simple regulatory change by the FTC - Congress can do nothing - this is the point of having Tzars. The Constitution as far as these people are concerned is a dead document. Just take The Green Jobs Tzar Van Jones running a campaign directly from the White House (via his COC organization) to shut down Glen Beck.
w/ someone else’s hard earned $$$
How is this idea conceibably constitutional?
Good one, John. Captures the current contentious mood of the country and how some would address it.
The Left- looking out for the collective by punching Lady Liberty in the face while real men aren’t looking.
Good. Now we don't need health care reform.
Hitler had a way:
1. Force all German broadcasters to carry only government propaganda
2. Sell "affordable" radios to the sheeple that could only pick up local stations
3. Make it illegal to listen to foreign broadcasts.
Problem solved.
For the life of me, I don't remember such a title in the defunct Soviet Union or Communist China!
0Dung0's innovations are in evidence.
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