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Home Front: Politix
Diversity Czar Lloyd and Marxist McChesney's Censorship Dream
2009-11-20
The FCC's Plan for Government Broadband

The Wall Street Journal's intrepid and very good Amy Schatz has a piece today updating us on the progress of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s National Broadband Plan.

With all that we have thus far seen, things look quite grim from a free speech, free market perspective. The groundwork for government information totalitarianism - favored by people like Hugo Chavez-loving FCC "Diversity Czar" Mark Lloyd and Marxist "media reform"-outfit Free Press founder Robert McChesney - is being laid in the Plan being crafted by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

In his 2006 book Prologue to a Farce, Lloyd called for the FCC to charge private broadcast companies 100% of their operating budgets for their broadcast licenses.
As we first reported, the Center for American Progress (at which Lloyd was then a Senior Fellow) and McChesney's Free Press co-authored the deeply flawed, anti-conservative and Christian talk radio "report" entitled The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio.

But their shared disdain for free speech and the free market extend way beyond just this. These "media reformers" seek to eradicate most or all private ownership of all information delivery - be it by radio, television or the internet - thereby leaving the federal government as sole purveyor.

In his 2006 book Prologue to a Farce, Lloyd called for the FCC to charge private broadcast companies 100% of their operating budgets for their broadcast licenses. He also called for heavy fines to be levied on these stations for failing to meet his vast and expansive (not to mention warped) definitions of diversity and localism. Lloyd called for all of this money to be handed to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting - in other words, government radio and television.

Any one who has ever run a business - or worked for a business, or can count to three without error - knows that these sorts of confiscatory and regulatory impediments would make it impossible for any private media company to continue to exist. They would all be forced to cede the field, leaving government - holding vast sums of the private owners' money - as the only player left standing.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Kiss my ass.

Hack it out.
Posted by: newc   2009-11-20 06:26  

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