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FCC Diversity Chief Says Republican Communications Policies Hurt Civil Rights

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Posted by Fred 2009-08-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 And so it begins. (The return of the "Fairness" doctrine, that is.)

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-08-29 00:26|| 2009-08-29 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Ascertainment po;icy will ensure that a survey and community outreach is taken to determine the public attitudes and needs. Community organizing groups will be perfect for using push polling to define the needs, and amazingly, minority broadcasting proposals, with goverment seed money, will end up with ownership of licenses, hence stations. Goebbels would be proud and Trotsky would applaud the brazen theft of the media, all the while creating government controlled organs of propaganda.
1934 anyone?

Posted by NoMoreBS">NoMoreBS 2009-08-29 00:56|| 2009-08-29 00:56|| Front Page Top

#3 nhegatively impaced the civil rights of minorities.

must be why minotities never get elected to the oval office

Its all aout the assault on the constitution by one who is constitutionally inell8igible to the oval office anyway.

Posted by Percy Spons4194 2009-08-29 02:15|| 2009-08-29 02:15|| Front Page Top

#4 And so the Ministry of Truth starts its work.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-08-29 09:04|| 2009-08-29 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Just going by the play book. Marxists know the first thing to do is seize the means of communication.

Posted by ed 2009-08-29 09:20|| 2009-08-29 09:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Glenn Beck has some questions:

- Why does the FCC have a diversity "czar"?

- Who is Mark Lloyd and how does he plan to "balance" the airwaves?

- Will he bring back the Fairness Doctrine or worse?

- Cass Sunstein once said he wants to balance the Internet; is that next?

- Will broadcasters who leave the airwaves be allowed to go to satellite or Internet without government regulation?

- Is there any place (that has a mass audience) where the government wont regulate free speech?

- Why does it seem every member of the Obama advisory team hates capitalism, unless those companies (like G.E.) are in bed with the administration?

If Lloyd has his way, stations who don't comply to the governments definition of the "public interest" will have to pay a massive fine that helps support public broadcasting:

- What will be the definition of "public interest"?

- Who defines "public interest"?

- Why should it be balanced? Because it's public airwaves? (Well, there are public roads that go by my house and I don't count how many Republicans and Democrats are driving on them)

Posted by Parabellum 2009-08-29 09:39|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-08-29 09:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Just one question; as a casual/infrequent T.V. viewer, aren't all the "alphabet" media (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC,et al) liberal/extremely liberal? AND, don't they outnumber (only quantity of FCC licenses, NOT viewers) Fox News by a significant number? A true balance could/would be achieved by "redistributing" their licenses to more conservative broadcasters.

Posted by WolfDog 2009-08-29 11:10|| 2009-08-29 11:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Wolfdog - it depends on where your centerline is. For this clown the 'centerline' is places like 'moveon.org' and huffington post. So with that sort of centerline the MSM is 'just right'.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-08-29 12:40|| 2009-08-29 12:40|| Front Page Top

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