Next step, distribution of radios that can only tune into NPR.
Posted on 08/13/2009 8:10:23 AM PDT by NMEwithin
Mark Lloyd, newly appointed Chief Diversity Officer of the Federal Communications Commission, has called for making private broadcasting companies pay licensing fees equal to their total operating costs to allow public broadcasting outlets to spend the same on their operations as the private companies do.
Lloyd presented the idea in his 2006 book, Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America, published by the University of Illinois Press.
Lloyd’s hope is to dramatically upgrade and revamp the Corporation for Public Broadcasting through new funding drawn from private broadcasters.
The CPB is a non-profit entity that was created by Congress and that currently receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal subsidies each year. In fiscal 2009, it is receiving an appropriation of $400 million.
“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must be reformed along democratic lines and funded on a substantial level,” Lloyd wrote in his book....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
ONly thing DIVERSE about this IDIOT is The Diversity of his STUPIDITY...
PUBLIC BROADCASTING Should PAY for Public Broadcasting!
Next step, distribution of radios that can only tune into NPR.
Cloudy Day...
Draining your cash away...
On our way to rule
by the elite...
We will tell you how to get
How to get to Socialism Street
Can’t Public Broadcasting get advertisers? If not, they should have fund raisers like other non-profits. If they can’t make it, no loss.
The arrogance and stupidity of this administration spans the spectrum
dfwgator giving the Commies ideas. ;)
Tell the diversity director to go Obama himself.
The list, ping
Wouldn’t it be better to just pull the plug on PBS?
Unconstitutional on its face - the Govmint may tax one segmant of a for profit industry to support that sement’s non-profit competition. Where does that phuking Kenyan Poseur get these people?
Here it comes...The Fairness Doctrine.
Seizing the profits of another private industry. Chavez must be proud.
Nailed it !
We the taxpayers are already helping to fund these Liberal-Socailist MSM outlets. This is another tax to finance their drivel.
Benito Mussolini has got to be the favorite role model for H. B. 0bama
What's next? Are they going to stick us with the bill for euthanizing our grannies against our wishes once Obama is successful in seizing absolute control of everybody else's rights to life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness in this country too?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
no need for doctrine when you are going to have a 100% fee
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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