Yesterday they chatted with NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell. Today, Liz Stephans and Scott Baker of Breitbart.tv's "The B-Cast" interview NewsBusters contributing editor and Media Research Center Director of Communications Seton Motley.
You can click here for the live stream or watch it in the embed below the page break.
<div style="float: right"><object width="240" height="194"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=GdSUuz8z8z&c1=0x2A3F9C&... name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=GdSUuz8z8z&c1=0x2A3F9C&... allowfullscreen="true" width="240" height="194"></embed></object></div>Media Research Center Communications Director and NewsBusters.org contributing editor appeared live in studio with Glenn Beck on his Fox News program yesterday where he discussed more damning information he's unearthed about FCC diversity czar Mark Lloyd: his ties to Marxist Hugo Chavez defender Robert McChesney. [MP3 audio <a href="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/10/2009-10-07-FNC-Motl... target="_blank">available here</a>]<br /><p>McChesney's leftist group, ironically styled Free Press, co-authored with Lloyd and the liberal Center for American Progress a paper exploring "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio," which essentially serves as a treastise to justify "balancing" political talk radio via government regulation. </p>
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MRC's Seton Motley will be on the Glenn Beck program in just a few moments on Fox News Channel.
<div style="float: right"><object width="240" height="194"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=Gd8zprVrSU&c1=0x2D5B97&... name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=Gd8zprVrSU&c1=0x2D5B97&... allowfullscreen="true" width="240" height="194"></embed></object></div>Appearing on his program yesterday, Media Research Center's Seton Motley talked with Glenn Beck about the various regulations the FCC's new diversity czar Mark Lloyd wants to bring upon the terrestrial radio industry, particularly conservative-dominated talk radio.<blockquote><p>GLENN BECK: When you read the new diversity officer, what is the most disturbing thing that you have seen? What are the things that he says that stick out to you?</p><p>SETON MOTLEY: Well, he's fundamentally opposed to virtually any private ownership of media. [...]</p><p>BECK: Tell me exactly what his plan is.</p><p>MOTLEY: His plan is to use the nebulous FCC regulations of media diversity and localism to travel alternative routes to arrive at the same destination as the Fairness Doctrine, which is to shut you up by shutting you down. He wants to assault the radio industry to effect an ideological outcome... </p></blockquote><p>You can view the entire segment embedded above on the right. </p>
Seton Motley, the Media Research Center's Director of Communications, was on the Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck to discuss the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s new "Chief Diversity Officer," Mark Lloyd.
Chief Diversity Officer Lloyd is virulently anti-capitalist, almost myopically racially fixated and exuberantly pro-regulation. He is a frightening guy to have having any power at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). And yet that is exactly where he currently stands, astride the private radio industry he loathes like a Socialist Colossus.
It does not bode well for free speech on the radio airwaves, but as Seton says to Glenn during this appearance, "That's irrelevent to these people."
<p>Media Research Center Director of Communications and NewsBusters contributor Seton Motley is scheduled to appear on today's <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/glennbeck/index.html" target="_blank">Glenn Beck program</a> on Fox News Channel. </p><p>His segment should air around <b>5:45 p.m. EDT.</b></p><p>Motley will discuss the views of FCC's new "chief diversity officer" Mark Lloyd and how his influence on regulatory policy could prove detrimental to free speech on America's radio airwaves.</p><p>As Motley <a href="/blogs/seton-motley/2009/08/06/new-fcc-chief-diversity-officer-co-wrote-liberal-groups-structural-imb" target="_blank">noted recently</a>, these are some <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/06/pdf/talk_radio.pdf" target="_blank">statist policy initiatives</a> Lloyd endorsed when he was a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress:</p>
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| For the Matador Media, One Side Fits All |
The most recent high-water mark in media health care bias was last Wednesday, when ABC broadcast on four separate occasions from the White House during what they said was a day of their "moderating" a health care "conversation" with President Barack Obama. Good Morning America, World News and Nightline all satellite-beamed their video images from within the confines of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
And all of that was in addition to a one hour prime time special entitled Questions for the President: Prescription for America. During which the queries posed to Obama were for the most part fairly difficult, but given the home-field advantage format he was able to deviate from the intent of each question as much as he wanted, filibuster as long as he wished and in every instance had the last word on each issue.
This all-day Obama domination of the "conversation" ABC was claiming to "moderate" inspired in us a notion. After all, one doesn't "moderate" a "conversation." What IS moderated - and what is certainly called for on something as important as the decision whether to allow the government to shanghai nearly 20% of the private sector (and arguably it's most important portion) - is a DEBATE. And ABC wasn't having one.
So we decided to offer up the other side of the deliberation in which ABC - and the media as a whole - aren't engaging. Working with Americans for Tax Reform and the Health Care Freedom Coalition, we put together a rock star panel of legislators and health care experts to put forward free market-based health care reforms. And to identify the myriad problems with and debunk the many myths and canards about government medicine - which the Left repeatedly offer up and the Matador Media let go by them with barely a wave of the cape.
<div style="float: right"><object width="240" height="194"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydaGQunzkU&c1=0xCE4717&... name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydaGQunzkU&c1=0xCE4717&... allowfullscreen="true" width="240" height="194"></embed></object></div>Calling it an "all-day home field advantage play for Obama and his position on health care," MRC's Seton Motley noted on the June 17 Fox News Channel program "America's Newsroom" that an upcoming ABC network special hosted at the White House will fail to include the other side of the complex policy argument. [audio <a href="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/06/2009-06-17-FNC-Motl... target="_blank">available here</a>]<br /><p> Although there will also be a question and answer section with participants picked by ABC News, the planned special will not include a response from Republicans or government-run health care critics.<br /><br /> ABC "has a history of going as far left as possible with these specials and yielding time to Democrats when they won't yield to Republicans," Motley argued. The MRC Director of Communications pointed out that Linda Douglass, White House Director of Communications, served as an ABC News correspondent from 1998 to 2006. </p>
<div style="float: right"><object width="240" height="194"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydaG2G6U6U&c1=0xCE4717&... name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydaG2G6U6U&c1=0xCE4717&... allowfullscreen="true" width="240" height="194"></embed></object></div>Media Research Center Director of Communications Seton Motley appeared Sunday morning on Fox News Channel's "America's News Headquarters" to discuss comedian David Letterman's inappropriate joke about Gov. Sarah Palin's 14-year-old daughter Willow.<br /><br /> Motley noted a marked difference with the now infamous Don Imus joke about the Rutgers women's basketball team. <p>While both Letterman and Imus made crude and inappropriate jokes, conservatives like Gov. Palin do not have the benefit of the mainstream media's outrage as did the Rutgers basketball players [audio <a href="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/06/2009-06-14-FNC-MOTL... target="_blank">available here</a>, see embedded video at right]:</p>
<p><object align="right" width="250" height="202"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydSUaG8zSU&sm=1"></para... name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydSUaG8zSU&sm=1" allowfullscreen="true" align="right" width="250" height="202"></embed></object>Media Research Center's Seton Motley appeared on FNC's <i>Fox & Friends</i> on April 16th to talk about the egregious media bias in covering the tax day TEA Party protests. And there was no shortage of bias to talk about.</p><p>Of <a href="/blogs/julia-seymour/2009/04/15/cnn-correspondent-claims-tea-parties-anti-government-anti-cnn" title="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/julia-seymour/2009/04/15/cnn-correspondent-... Susan Roesgen's openly hostile reporting </a>from one event, Motley said, "She was totally in attack mode. She was almost angry to be there."</p><p>He also addressed the juvenile pornographic references by <a href="/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/04/15/cnns-anderson-cooper-its-hard-talk-when-youre-tea-bagging" title="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/04/15/cnns-anderson-coop... Anderson Cooper</a> and <a href="/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/04/14/msnbc-place-low-brow-teabag-humor" target="_blank" title="NewsBusters.org | Media Research Center">MSNBC</a>, which he referred to as "Nestea-Plunging" "so as to not sink to their level." </p><p>Motley added "They can't get any more biased, so they decided to go vulgar too." </p>
Washington, D.C. -- The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) for 2009 is underway and NewsBusters is here to cover it at the lovely Omni Shoreham Hotel on Bloggers Row. We're not sure how much we'll blog per se, but you can also follow us on Twitter @TheMRC and @KenShepherd.
You can watch a Web stream of the CPAC proceedings at Ustream here.You can watch the streaming video embedded below the page break on this post.
Be sure to set your stopwatch alarm for 3:40 p.m. That will give you a good 5-minute warning for a CPAC panel discussion entitled Targets of the Fairness Doctrine, moderated by MRC/NewsBusters's own Seton Motley. Radio host Roger Hedgecock and former and current MSNBCers Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough will comprise the panel.
Speaking of which, feel free to sign the MRC's Free Speech Alliance petition here if you haven't done so already.