White House Defends Attacks on Fox News: 'They Will Say Anything
October 8th, 2009 5:07 PM
The White House is stepping up its attacks against the Fox News Channel, labeling it a bastion of stilted and opinionated journalism. A top administration communications official has called the Fox "opinion journalism masquerading as news," and vowed to wage a war of ideas against the network.Speaking with Time Magazine, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said that the administration…
FCC's Genachowski Agreed to Have Diversity Czar Lloyd Appear Before Co
October 6th, 2009 2:14 PM
The news wing of the Media Research Center, CNSNews.com, yesterday reported that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) refused their request for an interview with Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd about his tremendously disturbing First Amendment and communications policy views. (Not to mention his affinity and admiration for Venezuelan dictatorial thug Hugo Chavez and his demand that "…
CNN's Lou Dobbs Program Picks Up on Obama/Humana 'Gag Order' Controver
September 24th, 2009 1:00 PM
CNN’s Kitty Pilgrim followed the lead of ABC News in reporting the Obama administration’s attempt to use regulatory power to suppress criticism of its health care proposal on Wednesday’s Lou Dobbs Tonight. Pilgrim noted how “[health] insurers are angry because...the government Medicaid office instructed them to cease sending what it called misleading...information about the bill to clients.”…
Audio: FCC's Diversity Czar: 'White People' Need to be Forced to 'Step
September 23rd, 2009 8:38 AM
One Giant Censorship Step Down For Personkind Mark Lloyd is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Chief Diversity Officer, a.k.a. the Diversity Czar. And he has in a recently discovered bit of archive audio goodness detailed his rather disturbing perspective on race, power and the American system.(Audio located below the fold, courtesy of…
Albright: Washington Times Makes Her 'Crazy', but Insists Press Must P
August 29th, 2009 7:42 AM
It's no secret the print newspaper industry is struggling. It's become all too common to hear that papers, like the Christian Science Monitor or the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, have ceased publishing a print edition and gone completely online. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright addressed this challenge and its impact on a government at the Aspen Institute's Forum on Communications and…
Bozell to FTC: Keep Your Paws Out of the News Media
August 27th, 2009 2:51 PM
Today Media Research Center (MRC) president and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell denounced the Obama administration for its plans to delve into the private sector for the purposes of researching and regulating the national news media. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced plans for a two-day workshop in December to examine the state of the news industry - which could lead to…
MRC's Motley, FNC's Glenn Beck Inform Viewers About Policy Aims of FCC
August 27th, 2009 12:27 PM
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.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…
CNBC's Cramer on Glenn Beck Advertisers: 'I Think They All Come Back i
August 24th, 2009 5:21 PM
Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz and the brain trust at ThinkProgress probably won't like this, but CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer thinks the Glenn Beck boycott won't have an impact on NewsCorp's (NASDAQ:NWSA), the parent company of Fox News, bottom line. During the "Stop Trading" segment on "Street Signs" Aug. 24, Cramer explained that Unilever (NYSE:UN) was going all out with its advertising, by…
If ObamaCare Goes Down in Flames, Will Calls for the Fairness Doctrine
August 20th, 2009 12:32 PM
As each day passes and President Barack Obama's health care proposal faces more and more opposition, some of the talking heads that appear on the cable news networks are looking for a "boogeyman" to blame for allegedly ginning up backlash. And that "boogeyman" has been conservative talk radio. However, if recent history is any indication, there could be an effort to take silence conservative…
Sen Grassley's Letter to FCC Chair- Questions Media Should Ask About F
August 17th, 2009 4:27 PM
"Diversity Czar" Lloyd: Regulating Conservative Stations Within an Inch of Their Lives Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley has publicly released a letter he penned to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski regarding the July 29th announced appointment of new FCC Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd.In the…
MRC's Motley on FNC's Beck to Discuss FCC's New Chief Diversity 'Czar
August 14th, 2009 10:55 PM
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…
FCC’s New 'Diversity Officer' Wants to Force Private Broadcasters to
August 13th, 2009 5:32 PM
The International Sign of Censorship Matt Cover at the Media Research Center's News Division, CNSNews.com, has a piece out today entitled "FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal to Their Total Operating Costs to Fund Public Broadcasting."This is insane. The "Chief Diversity Officer" in question, Mark Lloyd, is…
