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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (73600)	10/14/2009 12:54:59 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224755

The talks of another Fairness Doctrine. The talks of possibly financing the newspapers.

To: jlallen who wrote (73600)	10/14/2009 1:26:12 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224755

RE:what are you referring to? Obama's FCC Diversity Czar, Lloyd, uses Venezuela as his model what our media should look like - government controlled and non-white owned. ------------------------------------------------------------- This is of course in addition to Lloyd's rather disturbing perspective on the First Amendment. "It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies. "[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance." And Lloyd's rather disturbing perspective on Venezuelan Communist dictator Hugo Chavez's "incredible...democratic revolution." To go with Lloyd's bizarre admiration for the thuggishly fascistic manner in which "Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country." On Fairness Doctrine: What we're really saying is that the Fairness Doctrine's not enough. And that having a sort of over-arching rule that says broadcasters ought to be "fair" or ought to provide issues important to communities and that they ought to do it in a fair and balanced way is simply enough. Unless you put some teeth into that and put some hard, structural rules in place that are going to result in fairness. On race: And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions we will not change the problem. We're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power. newsbusters.org