Posted on 08/31/2009 10:04:23 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
The threat to free speech on radio will not come through the "fairness doctrine." The threat comes from Mark Lloyd, newly appointed Chief Diversity Officer of the FCC.Lloyd, a disciple of Saul Alinsky and fan of Hugo Chavez, wants to destroy talk radio and says free speech is a distraction. The new FCC diversity "czar" says Venezuela is an example we should follow.
Loyd has called for making private broadcasting companies pay licensing fees up to an amount equal to their total operating costs to fund Public Broadcasting. Lloyd wants to upgrade and revamp the Corporation for Public Broadcasting through new funding drawn from private broadcasters.
“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must be reformed along democratic lines and funded on a substantial level,” Lloyd wrote in his book.
“Federal and regional broadcast operations and local stations should be funded at levels commensurate with or above those spending levels at which commercial operations are funded,” Lloyd wrote. “This funding should come from license fees charged to commercial broadcasters. Funding should not come from congressional appropriations. Sponsorship should be prohibited at all public broadcasters.”
The fee that broadcasters would pay would vary based on the station's programming of “diverse views” and government activities. In other words, a frontal assault on conservative talk radio.
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ah it is good to see stalinism is not dead.... now we must fight it and kill it.... figuratively speaking
We have won the victory over ourselves. We love Big Brother!
Just think of all of the Congressional careers this monkey will destroy! Marxists? Bring ‘em on... Your socialist utopia is about to crash & burn!
These old school Communist dopes are SOOOO out of touch with the rest of the world! Bring on 1960s politics to solve the problems of the digital era! When will they give up? Nobody cares about social justice, peace, and all of the other crap. Che is dead, Castro is a living fossil and communism is a failed doctrine. Yet, in the United States, the pinko geezer brigade is now “in power.” What a friggin joke. Affirmative action fools masquerading as communists when the world could care less. Pathetic.
There is absolutely no reason for taxpayers to subsidize television. We must have 150 channels these days.
If foundations and private industry and liberals want to support public TV, it's their money and they can do what they want with it.
It would be more accurate and make more sense if you had said that the world couldn't care less, meaning that the world doesn't care at all. Saying that the world could care less is ambiguous and doesn't indicate if the world's caring is currently at a high, medium, or low level, but only that it could be less than that.
OOOPPPS! My bad! But, really, when it comes to being careless, I couldn’t care less!
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