Posted on 09/11/2009 11:33:53 AM PDT by nickcarraway
New Federal Communications Commission chief Julius Genachowski says he wants to promote diversity in media ownership, but his recent decision to hire Mark Lloyd, a civil-rights attorney critical of corporate-owned media, to help with that effort has riled some talk-radio hosts who fear the agency is planning to go after them.
The criticism comes as another Obama administration appointee, environmental jobs adviser Van Jones, resigned over the weekend following an outcry over things he said before joining the government.
Mr. Lloyd was named in July to the new FCC post of chief diversity officer as part of what agency Chairman Julius Genachowski called an effort to "expand opportunities for women, minorities and small businesses to participate in the communications marketplace."
FCC chief of staff Edward Lazarus said Mr. Lloyd is currently working, for example, on how to increase broadband adoption in minority communities and by small businesses. Through an FCC spokeswoman, Mr. Lloyd declined to comment.
But Mr. Lloyd in the past has criticized corporate ownership of media outlets, saying it has led to conservative dominance of talk radio, among other things. He has called for a broader range of voices in the media and advocated taxing station owners to subsidize public broadcasters and local media.
"If we as a nation...fully funded a broadcaster like the British citizens fund BBC, we might have an impact on what they cover and have more power to demand that they cover everything," Mr. Lloyd said at a 2008 media conference.
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this guy should go, too....
It is on like Donkey Kong.
‘Wack-a-Czar’
No matter what flavor of Socialism they believe in, stifling freedom of speech is imperative to them.
If the libs get away with forcing obamacare down our throats with the “nuclear option” then I believe they will not stop there. They will then use this same option to pass cap & tax and the fairness doctrine. It won’t end until the Republicans or (armed) citizens put a stop to it.
When the healthcare fight is over, they will come after free speech and free press.
Liberalism in a nutshell: I demand that you do what I want.
Julius Genachowski says he wants to promote diversity in media ownership, but his recent decision to hire Mark Lloyd, a civil-rights attorney critical of corporate-owned media, to help with that effort has riled some talk-radio hosts who fear the agency is planning to go after them... as part of what agency Chairman Julius Genachowski called an effort to "expand opportunities for women, minorities and small businesses to participate in the communications marketplace." ...Lloyd in the past has criticized corporate ownership of media outlets, saying it has led to conservative dominance of talk radio, among other things. He has called for a broader range of voices in the media and advocated taxing station owners to subsidize public broadcasters and local media.Better yet, we need to cancel all government subsidies for partisan shilling by PBS and NPR and the left needs to stop pretending that conservative talk is on the air without anyone to listen to it. Thanks nick.
If the libs get away with forcing obamacare down our throats with the “nuclear option” then I believe they will not stop there. They will then use this same option to pass cap & tax and the fairness doctrine. It won’t end until the Republicans or (armed) citizens put a stop to it.
I have a vote of no confidence in the GOP. I do have faith in a large portion of the American citizenry, however.
These people are going to get rid of talk radio if they stay in power. They are not done with their game and their have thousands of game players. We win a few but that is nothing.
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