Do You Value Free Speech? FCC 'Diversity Chief' Doesn't

Mark Lloyd thinks government should control the airwaves. He's a non-apologetic communist, and as a 'czar' is not answerable to anyone but Obama. He wants to break the country into eight regions to control broadcast content. “Clear federal regulations over commercial broadcast and cable programs regarding political advertising and commentary, educational programming for children, the number of commercials, ratings information about programs before they are broadcast, and the accessibility of services to the disabled should be established and widely promoted.” He wants up to 100% of commercial broadcast operating costs to go the FCC, and they will monitor and decide who and what gets said. His full plan, quoting from communist revolutionary Saul Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals', he set forth in his 2006 book, “Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America” (University of Illinois Press). His full program to control media you can read here. [Note"before they are broadcast".]

Lloyd: “It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press.” “This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.”

“[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance,” said Lloyd. “[T]he problem is not only the warp to our public philosophy of free speech, but that the government has abandoned its role of advancing the communications capabilities of real people.”

"In Venezuela, with Chavez, really an incredible revolution — a democratic revolution — to begin to put in 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 in Venezuela rebelled — work frankly with folks here in the U.S. government worked to oust him and came back and had another revolution. And Chavez then started to take the media very seriously in this country."

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.