Posted on 08/02/2009 11:14:10 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Venezuelan president revokes licenses of 34, says those who share socialist vision will get back on the air
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this is what we will have in this country within 2 years.
He’s calling it the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE>
Time for ‘Radio Free Venezuela”?
Pat Robertson was right about this one.
Perhaps thats what they want, but it will be over my dead or wounded body.
me too. Give Me Freedom or Give Me Death!
I suppose Obama is watching Chavez to see which of the things he does work and which don’t. If Chavez is successful in keeping dissenting opinions off the air, I’m sure Obama will try to do the same. Obama just loves dictators and would follow them anywhere.
Looks like he caught wind of what 0bama was working on doing to censor radio stations here in the soon to be New USSR.
bambi’s intentions could not be more clear when it comes to how he has sided with all the wrong people on Honduras. Hillary better make a clean break from him over this.
they are both using the same play book.
only BO is more to the left
And this is 0zer0’s hero.
But, we have heard nary a word from those same journalists about the deeply troubling and even more draconian steps that Chavez has taken to squelch free speech in Venezuela.
I wonder what makes Russian autocratic socialism less desirable than Venezuelan autocratic socialism, in the minds of these leftist American journos.
Mass protests by liberals in the States???
...and Obama got a tingle up his leg!
AMEN!
Where are the 1st amendment types? If Zero can replace the cabinet Sec. with CZARS, does the media types really think he won’t replace their butts. SUCKERS
BTW: FR is a better place without F-bombs. It's one of the main things that distinguishes us as superior to the sewers on the left side of the internet. Let's keep it that way, OK?
Chavez: Doing his utmost to set a good example for BH0.
See they do believe in free speech as long as you agree with them.
Gee, I wonder what Obama’s going to say about this.
Bingo, right on, dig it, awesome, sick, rad, bad...and um...oh yeah....cool!
Obama, Emanuel, Pelosi, Reid et al are taking notes...
says those who share socialist vision will get back on the airChavez would leave office if someone offered him the right retirement plan. Y'know, "retirement plan".
The Fairness Doctrine
Yes, thank you for your comments. Haven’t we “citizens of the world” been down this road before? The one that leads to privation and death? USSR Cambodia etc etc.
Friday, August 14th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Mark Lloyd: FCC Chief Diversity Officer Seeks to Punish Conservative Broadcasters
By George Fallon
Well the nitwit ideas of the left just keep on coming. At number 10 with a bullet is Mark Lloyd. The FCC Chief Diversity Officer is seeking to punish conservative radio broadcasters to increase the funding for NPR (Nitwit Public Radio) based on the surprise findings that 91% of talk radio programming is conservative and 9% is progressive (New word for Socialist).
The reason Mr. Lloyd can’t understand is because there is no market in progressive broadcasting and thus no profit. Private companies are in business to make a profit. Public broadcasting is not. Adopting this would silence a large portion of radio or at least create a few thousand oldies stations. Will the Christian stations have offer equal time to the non-Christian views and music? The progressive voice is heard when they call in and voice their views. No one is keeping them doing that. But when they do, most are ranting, make no sense and dodge questions. They are much like the dart throwers on conservative blogs. They come in, throw darts, call names, cuss and leave with a closed mind.
“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must be reformed along democratic lines and funded on a substantial level. Federal and regional broadcast operations and local stations should be funded at levels commensurate with or above those spending levels at which commercial operations are funded,” Lloyd wrote. “This funding should come from license fees charged to commercial broadcasters. Funding should not come from congressional appropriations. Sponsorship should be prohibited at all public broadcasters.”
In 2006 while at the liberal Center for American Progress Lloyd wrote a book entitled, Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America. In the book he presents the idea the private broadcasters (private business) should pay a licensing fees which equals their total operating costs so that public broadcasting station can spend the same on their operations as the private companies do. By doing so he hopes to improve the Corporation for Public Broadcasting currently at $400 Million for 2009.
Not only does he want to redistribute private profits, he wants to regulate much of the programming on these stations to make sure they focus on “diverse views” (Progressive Views) and government activities. I am all for that when I see on PBS a conservative voice next to Bill Moyers. And when I hear a conservative voice on NRP or just voice on NRP that sounds excited with some passion.
He suggests that large corporate broadcasting networks have driven liberals off of radio. His idea is that having diversity ownership will reflect diversity in programming. That is not true. Liberals drove themselves of radio because they have no ideas except doom and gloom and business owners do not want to be a part of that. Plus broadcast, like primetime television lives or dies based on ratings. Get low ratings and you are off the air.
Mark Lloyd FCC Chief Diversity Officer
See U-tube vido
This is about control and tax revenue. It is not about diversity or equalizing the radio market. Mark Lloyd like most liberals wants to control our lives and what better way then with taxes. To punish a successful private business should be a crime.
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=4608
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