Meet Mark Lloyd: FCC Chief Propaganda Officer

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Catch that? Media is a powerful tool when used “independently”. By this, Mark Lloyd of course means having a neutral third party watch dogging how media is used. And that neutral third party is of course the FCC whose people were appointed by a socialist progressive regime running our current government.

Lloyd wants to make sure your political intake is “fair and balanced”, but not in the sort of way Fox News advertises. More in the CCCP has decided what you should hear from this radio station or this TV channel sort of way.

This is the new face of the Fairness Doctrine by any other name would smell as sweet. Memorize it.

It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. -Sun Tzu

Does anyone know what comes after media control? What comes after the “authority” controls media, is thought control. Don’t think this is possible? Do you think people in the world were as reasonable and conscientious as you or I today back 73 years ago? You know who was successful in controlling thoughts and actions of a well educated, reasonable, and conscientious people? The Nazi’s. First through controlling media, radio and newspapers, then controlling the message and counter message, and then by controlling how they thought. Did you know the Nazi’s told the German’s that they couldn’t smoke or eat certain foods because the government had decided what was best for them? Heard anything like that lately?

Mark Lloyd is not your friend. He is not here to help you or to make sure that everyone is hearing “both sides of the story.” He is here to make sure you hear the administrations side of the story.

In the futuristic tales of society, I always thought that Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was much more on task than that of the more often referenced 1984 by George Orwell. Along with Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World focuses on a society too busy to care. Their democratic system lays crumbled at their feet. But it wasn’t a war that forced government control and the creep of communism and fascism like in 1984. Society is simply too wrapped up in the glitz and glamor of the newest soap opera, automobile, celebrity, etc to care about the dilapidation of their liberty. Sort of the society of which one-third of the country will watch the Super Bowl, but only 119 million will vote in a presidential election.

He [Lloyd] wants them to regulate political advertising and commentary, the number of commercials these stations run, and ratings information about programs before they are broadcast. So basically he wants to takeover regulation of the entire operation of radio and television stations. -Seton Motley, 8/26/2009, Glenn Beck Show

This isn’t a recent phenomenon for Lloyd though. In 2007 (Strangely enough the time period in which Dems backed off the Fairness Doctrine to rename it. Which begs the question, is this a new Dem strategy? If something doesn’t pass the taste test with the American people, you just rename it and try again?) Lloyd wrote an article called Forget the Fairness Doctrine for the Center for American Progress. A well known fair and balanced think tank in DC. Which is an accurate statement as long as “fair and balanced” means “as far left as possible”. If there was a cliff where you could go no farther left, CAP would have fallen off of it. The article itself begs additional questions, like if you are trying to present a neutral case for fair media balance, why aren’t you publishing in a newspaper instead of on CAP’s blog?

But I digress…

In the article, Forget the Fairness Doctrine Lloyd presents the case for regulating free speech.? But he also makes the case not to regulate free speech. You read that correctly. It’s very clever. Watch:

From paragraph 2:

Only the most misinformed still believe that radio group owners such as Citadel Broadcasting Corp., which refuses to air popular progressive hosts like Ed Shultz, are only concerned about the bottom line. Few would agree that markets such as Philadelphia and Houston are well served with 100 percent conservative talk radio.

Here Lloyd says there isn’t a balance, something he would like to change forceably. But…wait for it…

But that doesn?t mean that the answer to this pervasive imbalance is the Fairness Doctrine.

Then he pretends that this action is not what the Fairness Doctrine is all about.

From paragraph 3:

In our report, we call for ownership rules that we think will create greater local diversity of programming, news, and commentary. And we call for more localism by putting teeth into the licensing rules.

And once again a call for enforcement of “balanced” media.

But we do not call for a return to the Fairness Doctrine.

Followed by the statement that what he is talking about isn’t the Fairness Doctrine.

You know what it’s called when someone tells you one thing but is attempting to do something else? Propaganda.

Maybe no one has told Lloyd what the Fairness Doctrine is? Because it sure sounds like he’s saying he doesn’t want the Fairness Doctrine, but he wants the ability to regulate local radio and television markets presentation of content. In fact, he couldn’t have been more clear.

By the way, this is the same guy that praised Chavez for taking over the media to execute his take over of the Venezuelan government.

I hope America has woken up in the last six months.? Because you are in for a long fight.? And we all have responsibility in the battle; both those of us who voted in this administration and those of us who didn’t do more to resist it.

The Obama administration is full of micro-presidents known as Czars that pull in the reigns of bureaucratic powers that have normally been separated from the Executive branch.? He has appointed self-confessing socialists and communists to places of power in our country, and the last six months has been an appetizer.

America, we’ve got 15 more months of this to go before we even have a shot at any recourse. Stimulus packages, cap-and-trade, and health care are just the tip of the spear. Steady your sights, and remain strong in your resolve.

-nick