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 ...
I’m so lucky to have Sensenbrenner as my rep, my state rep is good too (Grothman if you care). Unfortunately, I have Kohl and Feingold for my federal senators, gag. There are some conservative reps out there, and the removal of Specter is just a start to purging these libs out our the republican party. This is what we need, remove the rinos. To the Libs, keep pushing your agenda, you’ll be skunked sooner than you realize. If not, we own the guns and ammo.....
I nominate Perez Hilton for the diversity committee.
I see they left off Robert Johnson, who actually founded a network (BET), instead of just pimping his way into “chief diversity officer” at a Fortune 500. Johnson is the richest black man in America. However he derided Barack Obama, ridiculed him on his coke use and community organizing, supported Hillary and was friends with G.W. Bush, so he is unwelcome.
“Leave it to the left to couch this in terms that sound as if racial in scope. Theyre going to charge this effort, so that if you oppose it, youre a vile person.”
Family planning...who could POSSIBLY be against nice young people PLANNING a family?
Rush alone has 300 million listeners, per year, at last count. And he owns EIB. The left has tried this stuff before, left wing radio does not make advertisers money, since no one listens, and it goes under very quickly as a result. Right wing talk radio makes money, which is why it is successful.
The “DIVERSITY POLICE” are at it again...
Can U say “fascism???”
DIVERSITY = DIVISIVENESS
I am all for Fairness Doctrine
Equal air time on the major news nets, CNN, MSNBC, CNBS, etc
Equal space in the newspapers seeing as how they use public networks and the streets to deliver their product
I am in the bluest of blue northeast states, with a “so-so” Republican as my rep. Probably the most we could hope for.
Things are so tilted to the left, I’m surprised they haven’t tried to shut down the churches in my state.
Oh well. I really, really hope America wakes up, before it’s too late. Again, having an opposition party would help.
Poor you in the NE. There are many local conservatives in our area ready to take back our constitution (local and fed), and they’re very vocal. We’re starting from the bottom up, and soon, we’ll be there. Wisconsin has always been a ‘red state’ it’s just that the lib big cities are determining our politics which makes us appear blue. Good luck to you!
Thanks you too!
I've discovered internet radio and haven't listened to broadcast radio except in my truck. I know it'll be screwed up sooner or later, but right now I'm digging the near-constant music format of internet radio.
Obama has something right, start from the bottom up for change. Hopium isn’t just for the libs. Run for office, support your local conservatives, build it up, get involved from the local level and it will trickle up. You can make changes locally. Again, Good luck to you!
PING!
Thanks - today I needed the encouragement.
It’s not the big city stations that I worry about as there is already “diversity” with NPR, Spanish radio, “progressive” talk radio, etc. It’s the small towns who have Rush and Sean and Mark on in the p.m. They also broadcast the local HS football and baseball teams, provide community service announcements, emergency weather, etc. They are often the only station in rural areas. They are the ones (and their working class audience) that will be hurt with this “diversity” drive.
USA Buys Enough Guns in 3 Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Army
Law abiding US citizens bought on average 3,177,256 guns every 3 months in 2008.
EveryTown, USA - -(AmmoLand.com)- In just 3 months Americans bought enough guns to outfit the entire Chinese and Indian armys combined.
You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass. - Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto WWII
You also bought 1,529,635,000 rounds of ammunition in just the month of December 2008. Yeah that is right, that is Billion with a B. This number takes no accounting of reloading or reloaded ammunition.
This is an evaluation of overall firearms and ammunition purchases based on low end numbers per Federal NIC instacheck data base Statistics. The numbers presented are only PART of the overall numbers of arms and ammunition that have been sold. The actual numbers are much higher.
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. ~~ Thomas Jefferson
The era of conservative pirate radio stations fed by encrypted dark-net media streaming is about to begin.
Arrrgh Matey and we ain’t talkin’ rubber boats and machine guns here ya land lubbers...
Will they be able to stop the signal, Mal?
Absolutely. I just stated in a previous post that Rush keeps saying he is staying just where he is and not to worry. With Rush leading the way, I am fully confident the rest will follow.
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