Posted on 12/04/2010 7:43:56 PM PST by T.L.Sink
Keeping with Obama's big government ambitions, the FCC has announced a plan to CONTROL THE INTERNET and a proposal to sustain "traditional media" by requiring broadcasters to reflect ethnic diversity and public affairs programming to keep their license. Both agendas were revealed this week by two FCC commissioners, Michael Copps and Julius Genachowski, who was appointed agency chairman by Obama. Their job is to regulate interstate and international radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. Now the agency wants to CONTROL CYBERSPACE. Copps threatened free speech with an outrageous proposal that's clearly aimed at conservative stations [Rush, Hannity, Beck?] viewed as a threat to the administration's liberal agenda. If every commercial broadcaster doesn't pass a "public value test" it could lose its broadcasting rights.
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Does ethnic diversity include conservative voices of all stripes?
Maybe someone should Inform the Justice Dept.about Ethnic Diversity.Black Panthers anyone. Republicans in the House DEFUND the FCC
Yes, Glenn played those clips on his TV & radio shows. You’re right, though, the real Czar is in the White House. It’s like Rome, and every day Congress becomes more and more irrelevant.
Absolutely. “Diversity” has just become the pretext for the government to intervene and exert more control. Libs can’t compete is the free market place of ideas (talk radio, TV, etc.) so their ultimate answer is always government regulation to tilt things in their favor.
Thanks for the reference. That might be a good idea. Something has to be done to stop Obama (or any others in the future) from creating a multitude of “czars” or unvetted bureaucrats who constitute a shadow government. These arbitrary and capricious “appointments” remind one more of a monarch or dictator than the president of a democratic republic!
Bump
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