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Hugo Chavez Pulls 34 Radio Stations Off the Air (says those who share socialist vision will be back)
Fox News ^ | 08/02/09

Posted on 08/02/2009 11:14:10 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Venezuelan president revokes licenses of 34, says those who share socialist vision will get back on the air

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chavez; doctrine; fairness; latinamerica; liberalfascism; radio; socialism; socialists; venezuela
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Gee, I wonder what Obama’s going to say about this.


21 posted on 08/02/2009 1:54:10 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: FrankR

Bingo, right on, dig it, awesome, sick, rad, bad...and um...oh yeah....cool!


22 posted on 08/02/2009 2:00:05 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Its not nuts to request Obama provde his long form bc, it IS nuts not to.)
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To: Sprite518
Hugo Chavez Pulls 34 Radio Stations Off the Air (says those who share socialist vision will be back)

Obama, Emanuel, Pelosi, Reid et al are taking notes...

23 posted on 08/02/2009 2:14:34 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: bareford101
Link: Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called on President Barack Obama to form a White House commission to help save the press Tuesday night in an impassioned speech at the Aspen Institute. “I personally encourage the president to establish a White House commission on public media,” the legendary newsman said.
24 posted on 08/02/2009 3:35:36 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Obama's multi- trillion dollar agenda would be a "man caused disaster")
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
says those who share socialist vision will get back on the air
Chavez would leave office if someone offered him the right retirement plan. Y'know, "retirement plan".
25 posted on 08/02/2009 3:56:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

The Fairness Doctrine


26 posted on 08/02/2009 6:30:55 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: FrankR

Yes, thank you for your comments. Haven’t we “citizens of the world” been down this road before? The one that leads to privation and death? USSR Cambodia etc etc.


27 posted on 08/02/2009 6:39:54 PM PDT by steve0 (My plan B: christianexodus.org/)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Friday, August 14th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Mark Lloyd: FCC Chief Diversity Officer Seeks to Punish Conservative Broadcasters
By George Fallon

Well the nitwit ideas of the left just keep on coming. At number 10 with a bullet is Mark Lloyd. The FCC Chief Diversity Officer is seeking to punish conservative radio broadcasters to increase the funding for NPR (Nitwit Public Radio) based on the surprise findings that 91% of talk radio programming is conservative and 9% is progressive (New word for Socialist).

The reason Mr. Lloyd can’t understand is because there is no market in progressive broadcasting and thus no profit. Private companies are in business to make a profit. Public broadcasting is not. Adopting this would silence a large portion of radio or at least create a few thousand oldies stations. Will the Christian stations have offer equal time to the non-Christian views and music? The progressive voice is heard when they call in and voice their views. No one is keeping them doing that. But when they do, most are ranting, make no sense and dodge questions. They are much like the dart throwers on conservative blogs. They come in, throw darts, call names, cuss and leave with a closed mind.

“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must be reformed along democratic lines and funded on a substantial level. 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.”

In 2006 while at the liberal Center for American Progress Lloyd wrote a book entitled, Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America. In the book he presents the idea the private broadcasters (private business) should pay a licensing fees which equals their total operating costs so that public broadcasting station can spend the same on their operations as the private companies do. By doing so he hopes to improve the Corporation for Public Broadcasting currently at $400 Million for 2009.

Not only does he want to redistribute private profits, he wants to regulate much of the programming on these stations to make sure they focus on “diverse views” (Progressive Views) and government activities. I am all for that when I see on PBS a conservative voice next to Bill Moyers. And when I hear a conservative voice on NRP or just voice on NRP that sounds excited with some passion.

He suggests that large corporate broadcasting networks have driven liberals off of radio. His idea is that having diversity ownership will reflect diversity in programming. That is not true. Liberals drove themselves of radio because they have no ideas except doom and gloom and business owners do not want to be a part of that. Plus broadcast, like primetime television lives or dies based on ratings. Get low ratings and you are off the air.

Mark Lloyd FCC Chief Diversity Officer

See U-tube vido

This is about control and tax revenue. It is not about diversity or equalizing the radio market. Mark Lloyd like most liberals wants to control our lives and what better way then with taxes. To punish a successful private business should be a crime.

http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=4608


28 posted on 08/14/2009 3:33:15 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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