THEY HAVEN'T GIVEN UP ON CHIPPIN' AWAY AT THE PESKY FREE SPEECH THING

Of course, they better make it out to be some sort of "emergency" so they can ram it through.

now on the horizon is an FCC Diversity Czar calling for private broadcasting companies to fund public broadcasting companies their total operating cost. Matt Cover at CNSNEWS.COM files this report:

(CNSNews.com) - Mark Lloyd, newly appointed Chief Diversity Officer of the Federal Communications Commission, has called for making private broadcasting companies pay licensing fees equal to their total operating costs to allow public broadcasting outlets to spend the same on their operations as the private companies do. LINK

Lloyd not only wants the money to come from private companies, he is planning on regulating the content:

“Local public broadcasters and regional and national communications operations should be required to encourage and broadcast diverse views and programs,” wrote Lloyd. “These programs should include coverage of all local, state and federal government meetings, as well as daily news and public issues programming. (see link above for complete story)

Pravda anyone? (Hot Air)

Its so unfair! Liberal talk radio tanks because no one wants to hear their nutty crap. Conservative talk has great ratings. People CHOOSE to listen to that, and DON'T CHOOSE to listen to un-hinged moonbats.

Its how it works in a free society with a free press.

But we can't have that. It interferes with the left having complete control.