Mark Lloyd is the new FCC Chief Diversity Officer and Associate General Counsel for the Obama administration. His picture here is from a post at civilrights.org which states he is a staff member of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. This was dated July 29, 2009. Their Executive Committee includes leaders of AARP, Asian American Justice Center, ACLU, AFL/CIO, and SEIU to name a few. So, I guess, he is a civil rights activist.
You may want to pay serious attention to what he does going forward to see, if or how, his actions might affect free speech in America. For example, he is one of a number of people who co-authored a report in 2007 titled, “The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio,” which seeks to change the structure of the media. In a follow-up article, Lloyd wrote the report did not call for a return to the Fairness Doctrine but wants more local ownership. He also said; "We trace the rise and influence of Rush and other conservative radio hosts to relaxed ownership rules and other pro-big business regulation that destroyed localism..."
In a speech before the lefist National Conference for Media Reform last year he highlighted Rwanda and Venezula for their ability to make social change through state run media (see below for video). Talk about disturbing.
Is Lloyd in a position of power to actually make sweeping leftist changes to the FCC?
Update 8/27/09: CNSNews wrote about his 2006 book Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America
” ....Lloyd also said that public broadcasting should be funded through new license fees charged to the nation’s private radio and television broadcasters, and that new regulatory fees should be used to fund eight new regional FCC offices. These offices would be responsible for monitoring political advertising and commentary, children’s educational programs, number of commercials, and content ratings of the programs...Frequently referencing one of his heroes, left-wing activist Saul Alinsky, Lloyd claims in his book that the history of American communications policy has been one of continued corporate control of every form of communication from the telegraph to the Internet...Government, Lloyd said in his book, is the “only” institution that can manage the communications of the public, arguing that Washington must “ensure” that everyone has an equal ability to communicate..."
The government is the only institution that can manage the communication of the public? Are you kidding me? I haven't read this book yet but the author of the article apparently did. It's possible his book could be at your local library so you can read it for yourself.
Update 8/28/09: In a 1998 Essay, Lloyd said the Republican communication policy hurts minorities.
Update 12/15/09: FCC Diversity Officer Lloyd Vociferously Denies Things He’s Written and Said on Tape
...Because we have a written, video and audio archive of his thoughts, positions and policy prescriptions. So we know the differences between what he has said in the past, and what he claimed yesterday to have said in the past.
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Videos:
Lloyd spoke at the
2008 National Conference for Media Reform:
NCMR 2008 Media Reform and Social Change w/Mark Lloyd 1/2 (8.38 min)
NCMR 2008 Media Reform and Social Change w/Mark Lloyd 2/2
In this video Lloyd discusses two countries and their ability to be able to make social change through their state TV: Rwanda and Venezuela. This is beyond disturbing:
mass genocide was able to be committed by state radio in Rwanda---Chavez led an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution ------- media and social change ---
Also see:
AmericanProgress 2004 archive page on Mark Lloyd: states he was a as a reporter and producer at NBC and CNN, and a consultant to the Clinton White House. He also worked for George Soros Open Society.
Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy, a project of the Tides Center. Lloyd was the executive director in 1994 according to this archived page.
An affiliate of the Asian American Justice Center mentioned in the post abouve is the Asian Law Caucus:
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Saul Alinsky:
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Saul Alinsky on McCarthyism and Woodlawn (he said he never joined any organization - even the ones he created!
Saul Alinsky. Interview with Saul Alinsky, Part Ten ... PLAYBOY: What was your own relationship with the Communist Party? ALINSKY: I knew plenty of ...Back in the Thirties, the Communists did a hell of a lot of good work; they were in the vanguard of the labor movement and they played an important role in aiding blacks and Okies and Southern sharecroppers...Without the Communists, for example, I doubt the C.I.O. could have won all the battles it did. I was also sympathetic to Russia in those days, not because I admired Stalin or the Soviet system but because it seemed to be the only country willing to stand up to Hitler. I was in charge of a big part of fund raising for the International Brigade and in that capacity I worked in close alliance with the Communist Party. "
Book Reveille for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
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