FCC Will Not Allow Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd to Speak to Press

How convenient. Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd will  not grant interviews to the press because the FCC won’t allow it.

CNS News reports:

Lloyd, who cites the radical author Saul Alinsky as an inspiration, has argued that public broadcasting outlets in the United States should be funded on a level equal to the funding of private broadcasting companies–with the money coming from licensing fees levied on private broadcasters by the government.

The FCC says it does not allow any commission staffers to be interviewed.

CNSNews.com attempted to interview Lloyd Friday at a public forum held by the FCC. CNSNews.com wanted to ask the FCC diversity chief about policy recommendations he made in his 2006 book Prologue to a Farce and in papers written for the liberal Center for American Progress about changing media ownership rules in the United States, the role of public broadcasting, and the influence of 1960’s radical Saul Alinksy on his views.

CNS News was told the FCC doesn’t allow interviews because it could have an impact on policy making. I suppose that could be true, or they just don’t want him expanding on his world view.

“If our republican form of government is perishing because communications – the infrastructure of that republic – is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it?” he asks. “We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.”
 
To do this, Lloyd draws on his experience lobbying the FCC during the Clinton administration, counseling would-be revolutionaries to follow the tactics used by other left-wing movements, such as the followers of Saul Alinsky and the people who ran the campaign to block Republican Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork.

“We understood at the beginning, and were certainly reminded in the course of the campaign,” wrote Lloyd, ”that our work was not simply convincing policy makers of the logic or morality of our arguments. We understood that we were in a struggle for power against an oppenent, the commercial broadcasters ….”

“We looked to successful political campaigns and organizers as a guide, especially the civil rights movement, Saul Alinsky, and the campaign to prevent the Supreme Court nomination of the ultra-conservative jurist Robert Bork,” wrote Lloyd. “From those sources we drew inspiration and guidance.”

What a surprise, another Alinskyite in the Obama administration. The big question is – who in the Obama administration is not an Alinskyite?

This whole broadcasting diversity crisis might be a harder sell than even health care reform. A crisis in broadcasting? Do most Americans believe there is a crisis in broadcasting? The left owns the main stream media as well as most of the entertainment industry. They’ve tried and failed at liberal talk radio. Nobody wants to listen to it, withouts the artists and entertainers making liberalism sexy and hip, leftist talk is mind numbing.