Posted on 05/01/2009 11:17:34 AM PDT by UnalienablyRight
Behold one of the new "Fairness" Doctrines - "media diversity" - coming soon to a radio station near you.
President Barack Obama's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the names of the thirty-one members of their Advisory Committee On Diversity For Communications In The Digital Age. This May 7 gathering is made up of a laundry list of left-wing grievance groups, with a smattering of radio and television companies included to break up the monotony.
Not a single conservative organization is taking part in this Commission - more than a dozen Leftist groups are. A little ironic for a "diversity" panel, is it not?
Chairing the meeting is Henry Rivera, a former FCC Commissioner who was (and presumably still is) a strong proponent of the Censorship Doctrine, also mis-known as the "Fairness" Doctrine.
Many, many liberals in Washington have over the last several years called for a reinstatement of the Doctrine. But push-back from people who have read and actually understand the First Amendment led the Left to realize that the political price to bring it back was too high, so they MovedOn.org.
Of course, their desire to silence the lone voices of their opposition had not lessened in the slightest. They're still just as dictatorial, just pragmatically so.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Forced “Diversity” is not much different from forced “servitude”, they are both clearly unconstitutional.
YES.
...the Rush Pirates are coming......
We need diversity on the diversity panel!
Shame on Obama. He has no class.
“Not a single conservative organization is taking part in this Commission - more than a dozen Leftist groups are. A little ironic for a “diversity” panel, is it not?”
Conservatives are the ones fighting to preserve the Constitution and freedom. Socialists, which means all Democrats and other “liberals”, oppose capitalism, freedom of speech, and the Constitution in general. The Constitution has already been trashed by laws such as Social Security, which takes money from those who earn more and gives the money to those who earn less. The Constitution has been violated by quotas, by McCain-Feingold, by Medicare and Medicaid, by property grabs for “public use”, and by infringements on the Second Amendment, even though it literally reads: “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”.
69.5 million people voted for the budding National Socialist Obama. How many regret it now? How long will it take for millions to wake up?
Here’s what’s in the article:
Emma Bowen Foundation for Minority Interests in Media (Rivera’s outfit)
Minority Media and Telecommunications Council
Black Entertainment Television Holdings, Inc.
Afro-American Newspapers
Inner City Broadcasting
National Urban League
National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (yes, again, NABOB)
Spanish Broadcasting System
American Women in Radio and Television
Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc.
Asian American Justice Center
Rivera got the gig heading up this racial grumble group because he has long championed the concept of “media diversity.”
The proponents of station owner affirmative action are the same Leftists who were so ardently in favor of reinstating the Doctrine. One can thusly be forgiven for seeing this as an alternative route for the Left to reach their long-sought original destination - the silencing of conservative and Christian talk radio via governmental regulatory fiat.
And it’s not just our imagination - it’s also our lying eyes. The Center for American Progress is a left-wing hack outfit headed by former Clinton Administration and Obama Transition Team adviser John Podesta. And they released on January 22, 2007 a report entitled “Local Media Diversity Matters - Measure Media Diversity According to Democratic Values, Not Market Values.”
My version of the Diversity Committee
http://www.gejsten.dk/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/celebrate_diversity_guns.gif
Diversity????The chicken$hit POS screwballs have yet to have a member from the VRWC on any of the leftist news outlets! Obummer administration - hypocrite be thy name!
The Country went socialist just in time for May Day.
Last time I check, May Day means to nose dive after pilot loses control of aircraft. Seems correlate to me.
Just googled the first one, Henry Rivera, and he’s a huge fairness doctrine advocate.
Of course not, conservatives are the target. This has nothing to do with fairness.
ping
” The unanswered question is: are the Conservative Talk Radio icons willing to really fight for their microphone? “
What is it that you expect them to do that they aren’t doing already? I would also add that it’s not “their” microphone, it’s OUR microphone. Now are WE going to fight for it?
Opps!, not your qoute sorry!
Not a single conservative organization is taking part in this Commission -- more than a dozen Leftist groups are. A little ironic for a "diversity" panel, is it not? Chairing the meeting is Henry Rivera, a former FCC Commissioner who was (and presumably still is) a strong proponent of the Censorship Doctrine, also mis-known as the "Fairness" Doctrine.The so-called Fairness Doctrine will be the dealbreaker.
And the republicans remain silent on yet another unconstitutional liberty grab.
Ptttuiii!!
Really?
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