Mark Lloyd, FCC's chief diversity officer
The more I look at the Obama administration, the less diversity I see.
Posted on 08/26/2009 9:07:06 PM PDT by Starman417
Have you met our newly appointed, Obama stamp approved, "Diversity" Czar for the FCC?
No?
Well...check him out.
Mark Lloyd, chief diversity officer of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), called for a “confrontational movement” to combat what he claimed was control of the media by international corporations and to re-establish the regulatory power of government through robust public broadcasting and a more powerful FCC.Lloyd expressed his regulatory call to arms in his 2006 book, “Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America” (University of Illinois Press).
In the book, Lloyd also said that public broadcasting should be funded through new license fees charged to the nation’s private radio and television broadcasters, and that new regulatory fees should be used to fund eight new regional FCC offices.
These offices would be responsible for monitoring political advertising and commentary, children’s educational programs, number of commercials, and content ratings of the programs.
Frequently referencing one of his heroes, left-wing activist Saul Alinsky, Lloyd claims in his book that the history of American communications policy has been one of continued corporate control of every form of communication from the telegraph to the Internet.
~~~For those who think any or all of these recommendations might infringe on the free speech rights of broadcasters, Lloyd says his concern is not the “exaggerated” concerns over the First Amendment.
“It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press,” he said. “This freedom is all too often an exaggeration.
And just today Glenn Beck aired some footage of Lloyd speaking about the great change that happened in Venezuela with the dictator Chavez coming to power:
In Venezuela, with Chavez, really a incredible revolution. A dramatic revolution. To begin to put into place saying that we're going to have impact on the people of Venezuela.The property owners and the folks who were then controlling the media rebelled, work frankly with folks here in the US government, worked to oust him and came back and had another revolution and Chavez started to take the media very seriously in this country.
Get that? The "property owners" didn't want a dictator, didn't want Communism, and that's bad. Our government even helped them fight against Communism but Chavez, Lloyd's hero, came back fighting and took over the media.....which is a good thing to our new FCC czar.
He is completely opposed to any privately owned communications.
Read that again.
He want's a government takeover of our media!
Here's Glenn with Seton Motley:
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(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net
Ethnocentrism mixed with Communism, plain and simple.
[forewarned is forewarmed]
Don’t need to be picky but I believe it’s “Forewarned is Forearmed”, pretty important distinction and advisable.
Oh, does he? I knew it was just a matter of time. We saw it coming. Some one, please tell me again, what country are we living in?
Obama appointed a radical, leftist nutjob to run the FCC? What a shock.
As someone else posted about this topic:
“Snickety-snack go 100,000 rifle bolts.”
The more I look at the Obama administration, the less diversity I see.
We have a saying
"every generation should consider that is as if they themselves were released from bondage in Egypt".
Seems that we will have to work for ours a little harder.
Yep, it was a typo error, too many humps on the letter n. Thanks for bringing to our attention what we probably already knew.
Wow - thanks for that video link - had not heard of her! Well done, well done!
Now she needs to do one on these CZARS! The Shadow government!
I would not call it shadow as its real and he is shifting power already, thus parallel soon to be the dominant one. Best part for him? He totally bypasses senate....
This is totally unconstitutional and he should be impeached for his treasonous conspiracy against the commitment where he took oath to uphold.
I did send her an email.....lets see if I get an answer!
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