FCC’s “Chief Diversity Officer” Threatens Broadcast Freedoms
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL (July 21, 2010) –The Obama Administration’s controversial appointment of Mark Lloyd as “chief diversity officer” at the Federal Communications Commission signals a threat to the broadcast freedoms of dissenting media, experts warn on the July 25 nationwide broadcast of The Coral Ridge Hour TV program.
Since 2009, Lloyd has been charged with diversifying America’s media landscape.
“If he begins to argue that content is part of that diversity, that a Christian radio station ought to be a religious radio station and air diverse religious viewpoints, you can easily see how challenging that would be for Christian media to continue to be faithful to the Gospel,” said Dr. Frank Wright, president of the National Religious Broadcasters, the nation’s largest association of Christian communicators.
The Sunday broadcast examines Lloyd’s background and explores why he poses a threat to Christian and conservative voices in the media.
As a senior fellow at the ultra-liberal Center for American Progress, Lloyd co-authored a paper entitled, “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio.” That paper laments that, “Conservative talk continues to be pushed out over the airwaves in greater multiples of hours than progressive talk is broadcast” and questioned whether such stations were “serving the listening needs of all Americans.”
“Any policies or regulations or legislation that enables the government to become the arbiter of the discussion of which ideas are appropriate and which are not ought to be opposed as strenuously as possible,” Wright said.
Experts on the broadcast also question past statements that Lloyd made in which he appears to praise Venezuela’s communist President Hugo Chavez.
On a tape that surfaced after his appointment, Lloyd said: “In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution—a democratic revolution, to begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela.”
“When I hear that kind of praise for Mr. Chavez, I get very concerned, because what I’ve seen happen in Venezuela is a president who’s closed down radio stations that spoke out in opposition to his policies, who’s limited the freedoms of the people to speak out against government policies with which they disagree,” Wright said.
Lloyd claims his statement has been misinterpreted, but Maria Elvira Salazar, a television host and journalist at the Spanish language Mega TV based in Miami, says that anyone in U.S. leadership who applauds Chavez’s efforts is “uninformed.”
“The effect that Chavez has had on free speech [in Venezuela] has been terrible,” Salazar said. “Why? Because he needs to control every single media outlet in Venezuela in order to control the opposition movement.”
It is alarming, said Robert Knight, author of Radical Rulers: The White House Elites Who Are Pushing America Toward Socialism, when a presidential appointee to the body that regulates broadcast media praises a figure like Chavez, known for his heavy-handed approach to restricting broadcast freedom.
“Mark Lloyd is a key player in the Left’s campaign to silence the one segment of the media that leans conservative—talk radio,” said Robert Knight, Senior Writer for Coral Ridge Ministries and also the author of The Silencers: How Liberals Are Trying to Shut Down Media Freedom in the U.S.
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See, now this could be a good way to spread the gospel. The next time NPR has on, say, Brian McLaren or the Jesus Seminar, we just go and demand that they interview John MacArthur, or D.A. Carson, you (Ingrid), etc., for the sake of fairness and equal airtime. If they don’t, we sue them for violating FCC policy.
How come there isn’t an equal and opposing Non-Fairness Doctrine for the Fairness Doctrine? What, was I thinking?
“Conservative talk continues to be pushed out over the airwaves in greater multiples of hours than progressive talk is broadcast” and questioned whether such stations were “serving the listening needs of all Americans”
Well, my response to that comment is…these stations MUST be serving the ‘listening needs’ of their communities or they wouldn’t be able to stay on the air! People are listening…DUH!…a lot of people! Progressive and liberal talk shows/hosts have tried to compete and all went belly-up because they couldn’t draw enough listeners. So now, since the free market didn’t work for them, they are trying to find a way to force their views down our throats like bad medicine under the guise of ‘diversity’. This man’s appointment is a bad sign…and his praise of Chavez very disturbing.
Corral Ridge recently sent out a list of Obamas appointments (89) Open homosexuals per their source noted on the sheet ( Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute ) and Presidential Appointments Project.
WHY?? Should this concern us? The Homosexual gives us a HEADS UP, you see the Homosexual has NO NATURAL BOUNDARIES, NO BORDERS, if you have ever worked closely with one or have same in family you know they function or lead close with their FEELINGS EMOTION as a MOM, a Woman, the Mother of Harlots has used and will continue to use a MOMS heart EMOTIONS to manipulate and deceive churches and nations, BEWARE of ALL Small Group Cell Group materials that focuses in on FELT perceived needs, these Cell groups will be used in the future to feed Intel back up the food chain, you see the Cell Group leader gains Confidence in his cell by attaching himself/herself to the individual groups emotions, much as a PRIEST THERAPIST , the Cell Group leader becomes ONE in MIND with his cell, the emotional psychological barriers are removed and mental intercourse is being used, AS the Priests in the days of Constantine
The Anti Christ will use those who perceive themselves as VICTIMS or he creates the victim so he can sell his HELPS material. In the Garden Adam and Eve was COMPLETE, it was the TRUE FATHER God, Adam who is called in the Gospels Son Of God, and Eve who was pulled OUT OF SON OF GOD’S SIDE, the Serpent Dragon gained confidence in Eve through DIALOG just normal communication planting the HYBRED seed in her head, she had been seduced to thinking there was TRUTH HELP OUTSIDE her family unit, especially Son of God who received the Word of God directly from the Father, so she RECEIVED the serpents help, she went from being a PURE BRIDE to the First Harlot, you see she accepted HELP apart from her PURE Word of God husband. Now what happened? The Original plan was TOP down Management, now with the HELP from the OUTSIDE the family Therepist Priest the Dragon with many heads became the False Father, you see the False Father uses Moms heart to REMOVE BORDERS BOUNDARIES LAW, Eve then had TEAM management, LEGION, The TRUE Father was kicked to the curb.
We are living in dangerous times where many church leaders have brought the Dragons materials INTO the organized church and now we have Lucifer operating either in the Small Cells and even the Pulpits themselves, CLOSE you help books and materials and get back to LIGHT, Gods Word. Adam and Eve were as CHILDREN and the serpent was the FIRST CHILD MOLESTER, how do child molesters gain confidence in children? He gives them whatever they want to seduce them, BEWARE and RUN from any Priest , Pastor, Teacher, Small Group leader who begins with What do YOU want, How do YOU feel, pick up your “christian” best sellers and highlight the repetitions of YOU and YOUR, these are TRANSITIONAL materials designed to transform our churches from being TRUTH CHRIST focused to SELF FLESH MAN FOCUSED. The REASON why the HYBRID tree in the garden was tempting to Gods first children is because they were children and the EVIL was cloaked by the GOOD on the SAME TREE. ” Learn HOW to discern the EVIL in what APPEARS to be good”