Obama Admin Campaign Against Free Speech Continues

The FCC is directed by five Commissioners appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate for 5-year terms. It was established by the Communications Act of 1934 to regulate interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. Just appointed as 'Chief Diversity Officer' is Mark Lloyd. He was a Senior Fellow at the (Statist) Center for American Progress (CAP), and co-wrote, in 2007 for them, an anti-free speech screed "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio."

Leftists on the radio can't get anyone to listen to them; unless paid for by taxpayers (NPR). Their talk shows have tiny audiences. Since the MSM is the media wing of the Democrat party, I really don't get their beef against Conservative talk radio. They have lots of Statist outlets...ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, NY Times, LA Times, etc. They present their Statists views as news. Talk radio is opinion, presented as opinion. Oh yeah! If you don't agree with them shut up or they'll shut you down! And use the government to do it. Used to be called "The Fairness Doctrine" which was exposed for what it was, so now it's called "localism". (Like 'global warming' is now 'climate change'.)

What this character Lloyd advocates are steps to stamp out Conservative talk radio. Christian radio is on the chopping block too. The free market is a problem for this guy, as it is for our Dear Leader and his Statist friends. Some solutions: Go back to limiting how many stations anyone can own, and control who owns them.
Require more local control and local coverage (the FEDERAL FCC will administer that of course). If a station doesn't have the proper (federally imposed) public interest or "balanced" programming, then a fine will be imposed to support (Statist) public broadcasting.

There you go. Can't compete in the free market, use the government to bludgeon and bankrupt the opposition.