Glenn Beck: The Death of Talk Radio?

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[Yosemitest]

Glenn Beck: The Death of Talk Radio?


The New and Improved Fairness Doctrine

Glenn Beck talks with Media Research Center’s Seton Motley
about our new FCC Diversity Czar [Chief Diversity Officer], Mark Lloyd.
Lloyd wants to require privately owned radio stations
to pay a tax equal to their operating costs each year.
That money would then be given to publicly funded stations (like PBS or NPR).
Private radio stations, in essense, would be paying to fund the competition,
not that they could survive this tax anyway.

[Yosemitest]

Here's a transcript.

Seton Motley on Glenn Beck about Mark Lloyd:
ASSAULT ON CONSERVATIVE AND CHRISTIAN TALK RADIO

Originally aired on Friday August 14, 2009





Comment from poster, Yosemitest: I recommend you open the video link to the right from youtube.com in a separate window and reduce its size to view just the 9:00 minutes of video. Then you can read along on the transcript below.


BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

MODERATOR: For years, the world has seen reality distorted, facts manipulated, and truth hidden.
But there’s even more to the story than anyone has ever suspected.
Because no one has been able to see the whole picture,
until now.
Three, Tow, One, Beck.



BECK: America, I am uh,
I’m going to go on vacation, uh next week.
But when I come back, we have um,
We have quite a week of uh, shows to do for you.
We’ve been working on them for a while,
and I’m going to be introducing you to uh,
what I think is really going on in this country.
Methodically lay it out
and then show how to fight it.

Stand up.
Know what you’re dealing with.

I’ve been telling you for a while,
"Something is NOT RIGHT with the direction the country is headed in, now."
I think I know what it is, and it evolves around some of these Czars.
Well now, there’s something else that has been bothering me for a while
and, lo and behold, we’ve got a new Czar.
Radio is under attack by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). I told you before,
"Pay no attention to the Fairness Doctrine. It’s not going to happen."
But this man is the FCC NEW CHIEF Diversity Officer.
When I say "NEW CHIEF Diversity Officer,"
I didn’t know if they had an old one.
His name is Mark Lloyd.
He wants private broadcasters to pay LICENSING FEES,
listen to this,
LICENSING FEES EQUAL TO THEIR TOTAL OPERATING COST.
And, if they’re a conservative radio station,
they could receive a CRIPPLING Two Hundred and FIFTY Million-Dollar Fine.
All that money will be used to fund Public Broadcasters,
like NPR
who are competitors of these private broadcasters.
The man trying to silence FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA in Washington is Seton Motley.
Comment from poster:(Glenn makes a mistake here.
The man trying to silence free speech in America is MARK LLOYD, for Obama. )
He’s the Director of Communications at the, uh, Media Research Center.
Seton, tell me a little bit about the man,
uh, what is his name, uh, our new Czar Lloyd.

MOTLEY: MARK LLOYD. He is a FORMER Senior Fellow at the GEORGE SOROS funded, John Podesta run "Center for American Progress."
Man, people remember John Podesta from the Bill Clinton days.
He was also a Chief Obama Transition Team Czar, so to speak.
Uh, Mark Lloyd as a Senior Fellow there, co-wrote a pi.., a uh, a paper there in June 2007 entitled "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio".
Now first of all, this report is flawed
because it completely excluded Public Radio, from their survey.

BECK: Of course they did. That’s just fair. (Disgusted looks)

MOTLEY: And then they ... That’s just fair (disgust).
And because he’s looking at it from a market saturation standpoint.
And as you know, in many large cities, with a, with any number of, El ..,
Los Angeles for example, has a number of, has at least three Public Broadcasting Stations on the radio.
They get more than 100 percent market share.
But they, but that doesn’t count as market domination.
It’s only for private ownership.

But this report is frightening on how it wants to enforce the localism,
the media diversity rules of the FCC, which are very nebulas as they are written.
And therefore, up to the enforcement interpretation of whoever is doing the enforcing.
And now, this guy Mark Lloyd is doing the enforcing and ...

BECK: Okay. How long ...

MOTLEY: People have forgot ...

BECK: Well first of all, who was our last Diversity...
what is it? Chief uh, Chief Diversity?



MOTLEY: Chief Diversity Officer.

BECK: Who was the last one at FCC?

MOTLEY: That’s an interesting question.
I have a friend who’s been working there for years,
and that person doesn’t recall this position ever existing before.

BECK: Huh.

MOTLEY: Most amazing. This position.

BECK: That’s interesting. Okay.

MOTLEY: This may be a new Czar, in and of itself.

BECK: Okay. So we have this guy.
He wants to force private broadcasters to fund Public Broadcasters DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR.
So, if I understand this right, help me out, he is saying

whatever the gross operating budget is for every private radio station,
every year, they will have to pay a fee equal to that, uhm, to get their license for a year.


MOTLEY: Right.
To get their license from the FCC,
and of course, that money goes to fund stations with whom they then have to compete.

BECK: Let me ask you,

MOTLEY: Uh, okay.

BECK: Let me, let me ask you this?
What Company in America can take ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of their operation budget
and PAY IT AS A TAX and survive?

MOTLEY: Well, uh,
and then, and then, and then say
"Okay,. Now let’s start doing business."
It’s impossible.

BECK: IMPOSSIBLE!

MOTLEY: Impossible. ... It’s literally impossible.

BECK: Okay.

MOTLEY: It’s literally impossible.

BECK: Okay. I want to take a break, and when we come back,
There’s, there’s more to this, America.

MOTLEY: Much more...

BECK: There is much more to this. Radio under attack, next.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

BECK: America, I am here to announce the birth of a new Czar.
This one at the FCC.
Back again is Seton Motley of the Media Research Center.

Seton, there is a part here that I,
it’s CANNOT be right.
Uh, Lloyd suggest fining conservative radio stations up to TWO HUNDERD AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS
and giving the proceeds to the government subsidized Corporation of Public Broadcasting.

MOTLEY: Well that’s isn’t it.

BECK: That CANNOT be right.

MOTLEY: That’s not exactly right.
Well, that’s an estimated total of what the operating cost are,
for somebody like Premiere Broadcasting,
who syndicates several large talk show host, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity among them.
Uh, the fine, this is,
that’s just an extrapolation of the fine we’ve been discussing,
which is DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR for the, uh, annual operating cost.

BECK: Okay.

MOTLEY: Just to be clear ...

BECK: Okay. So it’s not,
it’s not, it’s not a fine IF YOU’RE A CONSERVATIVE, uh, RADIO STATION?
,br> MOTLEY: No. He does have,
he has laid out a road map for liberal activist
to attack conservative ... , oh, Conservative and Christian Talk Stations, however.

BECK: Okay.

MOTLEY: Uh, you said, "Forget,"
you said, "Forget the Fairness Doctrine?"
A month after his report came out, he wrote an essay called "Forget the Fairness Doctrine."

BECK: (Shaking his head “No”) I’m telling ya’.

MOTLEY: ... In which, he lays out a way
for liberal activists to use the FCC
by threatening their licensees,
if they don’t, uh,
if they're politically, uh, opposed to what they’re saying on the air.

BECK: (Shaking his head “NO”) I think it’s all localism like I SAID.
This is the way they’re going to go.

MOTLEY: And media diversity... And media diversity.

BECK: Yeah. Yeah. They’re going to take it,
they’ll take those licenses
and they’ll keep everybody AFRAID TO PUT ANYTHING ON THE AIR.
If they do put something on the air, somebody can challenge it.
They can take that license away from them at the end of the year
and give it to some ... ACORN-like group, or some,
you know, some, some minority group,
and then you’ve lost that radio station.

MOTLEY: Right, and then it’s...

BECK: Voices like mine, Seton, v ... voices ...

MOTLEY: It’s Freddie Mac..

BECK: Go ahead.

MOTLEY: It’s Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae for the radio industry, is what it is.

BECK: (Sigh) First of all, how long before you think this could come to fruition?
He’s there.
He, uh, doesn’t have to be confirmed or anything.
He’s there. It’s happened.

MOTLEY: He, He started work on July 29th, unless I’m mistaken.
Yes, he’s, he uh,
he stands waiting to take their calls.
However, there’s a,
there’s a Supreme Court decision in the Nineties called the "Ateran Decision"which said you can’t, you couldn’t set aside, uh, contracts for minority business owners.
(Poster's comment: not sure if this is the case, Domar Electric v. City of L.A. )
And now, that’s being looked at
as applicable to setting aside licenses for minority broadcast stations.

So he’s going to have to go into 'research mode' to overcome the Supreme Court, uh, law
that’s been set against doing this
strictly based on racial decisions.
So he’s got a little bit of work to do.

BECK: Okay.

MOTLEY: But believe me, don’t, ...

BECK: Oh no...

MOTLEY: Don’t, don’t think that he’s not working on it.

BECK: Oh no, they’ll,
I mean they’ll uh, they’ll get this done.
Broadcasters like me,
I mean if you take ..
you know, Rush makes ... a bazillion dollars a year.
Premiere would have to step to the plate and say,
"Okay, you pay Rush a bazillion dollars a year, AND
you pay the Federal Government that same bazillion dollars."
With my salary, then it’s like a bazillion and ten dollars.
Uh, and uh,
so then you would to,
you, they would have to,
that would WIPE those people out.
There’s just no way they could ever do it. So ...

MOTLEY: It’s an ..

BECK: MOTLEY: It’s an, it’s an assault on,
it’s an assault on the radio industry
to affect an ideological outcome.

BECK: What happens to free...

MOTLEY: That’s it.

BECK: What happens to FREE SPEECH in America?

MOTLEY: That’s IRRELEVANT to these people.

BECK: Is this, uh,
do you know anything about this guy?
Is he a uhm, ... Socialist, Marxist?
What, what is his ideals?
Uh, I got to, uhm ...

MOTLEY: Well .. he is definitely...

BECK: I tell you what.
I’m being told we’re out of time.
May I have you back,
I’d like to cover this when we come back,
I’m going on vacation next week,
the week after?
I’m going to show you, America, what is, what is coming.
And I’d like for you to do some more research,
and I’d like to have you back.
Is that possible?

MOTLEY: (Shaking his head “YES”) I’d ... , I’d love it.
Thank you.
Yes.

BECK: Okay, thank you,
thank you very much.
Uhm, America, ...
Don’t ... don’t miss it.
I’m going to be back a week from Monday.
Uhm, don’t miss it.
Please tell all of your friends.
Join us the week I return for the whole week.
PLEASE, don’t miss it.
I’ll be back in a second.

END OF TRANSCRIPT


Read the materials...


FCC’s New 'Diversity Officer' Wants to Force Private Broadcasters to Fund Public Broadcasters Dollar for Dollar

Glenn Beck on Obama's New 'Fairness Doctrine', FCC Diversity Czar [Chief Diversity Officer] Youtube video 9:00 minutes

The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio" by Mark Lloyd

"Forget the Fairness Doctrine" By Mark Lloyd

[yorkie01]

It’s time to fast-track these czars through the Supreme Court. They’re cearly not in the constitution, have no oversight and pose a serious threat to the stability of this country.

[kempster]

I am still amazed that we don’t hear a word from those bastions of truth in Congress that their oversight of these czars has been eliminated. Not Republicans or Democrats are making an issue of this.

[Yosemitest]

They’re hoping “we won’t notice.”

[Uncle Ike]

The ‘Death’ of talk-radio??

Doesn’t anybody remember the 60’s?? Does “Wolfman Jack” tingle a synapse or two??

Underground radio, originating offshore, and delivered nationwide via ‘bootleg tapes’ - the technology of the day -circumvented draconian ‘decency’ laws, and changed broadcasting forever....

I’m as passionate an advocate of the 1st amendment as anyone, but let’s take a breath, here — with modern, borderless, communications reaching virtually every person, would ‘going underground’ necessarily be a bad thing for Talk Radio?

[Venturer]

That amazes me also. One of their major powers has been usurped by the usurper and they remain quiet.

I was amazed that they let the Census be taken over by the White House, now the White House takes over communications and still they remain quiet.

What will it take, what power over them does Obama have.

Are they all frightened that they may be called racist?

[Yosemitest]

Then they'll do like China and the internet,
and block certain sites, or jam the airways.

[abb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline
Radio Caroline

[Anima Mundi]

The radio stations should publicize a day of silence and on some appointed day all go silent or just play funeral music.

[Yosemitest]

Take a look at RUSH: McCARTHY on Pelosi, the NY Times and the GERMAN NATIONAL SOCIALISTS,
and also watch this:

LISTEN to the video.
You won't believe it.

Manning Speaks Out Against the "Mack Daddy"



Record and play this back, LOUDLY at our protest and demonstrations!...

[2111USMC]

Yes, it would be a bad thing.

It would mean that we allowed the Marxists to remove our 1st Amendment rights.

[magua]

Underground is possible. But think of the fight. Our “Dream Team” talk radio against the Czars. Not the feeble Republicans. If we wanted to a have a perfect enemy they are it. This is a good thing. Bring it on.

[kempster]

IMHO: It will take the folks at Fox News to ask the questions on their shows and get the issue on the table.

[Polybius]

.... to publicly funded stations (like PBS or NPR)

NPR should be funded solely by the Democratic Party, left-wing organizations like MoveOn.org and their left-wing listeners.

After all, NPR is nothing more than their left-wing, partisan mouthpiece.

[Uncle Ike]

” Then they’ll do like China and the internet,
and block certain sites, or jam the airways. “

And it’ll be even more ineffective here, where interconnectiveness is all-pervasive, than it has been in China, or Iran...

‘Omnipotent Government’ is the pie-in-the-sky mythical goal of the Left - it never has been, and never will be, anything more than a bogeyman to frighten the sheeple into submission....

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“would ‘going underground’ necessarily be a bad thing for Talk Radio?”
Allowing the socialists to proceed even an inch with their agenda is equivalent to surrender. These morons need to be sent packing with whatever force necessary to ensure they don't return next year, or ever.
They are trying to systematically dismantle every semblance of freedom in America.
They, and their supporters are organized criminals and traitors. Nothing less than total victory against them is acceptable.

[Yosemitest]

Here's what we need.

"Gonna' burn their play house down!"
Click on the video link

[Uncle Ike]

” It would mean that we allowed the Marxists to remove our 1st Amendment rights. “

In case you hadn’t noticed, they already have - ‘Political Correctness’ morphed into ‘Speech Codes’, which became ‘Hate Speech Laws’, and now ‘free speech’ is but a fond memory in the land-of-the-free-and-the-home-of-the-brave...

Even our beloved Talk Radio is constrained by these abominations, and ‘going underground’ may be the only way to exercise and restore the 1st Amendment....

[Sooth2222]

Didn’t Howard Stern receive a $500 million contract form Sirius? How much do you guess that satellite would offer Rush and Glenn and the rest? They might manage to kill over the air broadcast radio like cable did to broadcast TV but it’s unlikely that they’d censor Glenn and Rush.

[Uncle Ike]

” Nothing less than total victory against them is acceptable “

Preaching to the choir, here... I’m inviting you to consider a tactic, to achieve the strategic goal of ‘total victory’...

Every Revolution in history - even, and I could argue, especially, non-violent Revolutions - has grown from an active and effective Underground movement....

We’ve ceded so much to the Marxists, that now it’s time to start thinking seriously about these things.....