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Title: FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal to T
Post by: Chris_ on August 13, 2009, 06:36:30 AM
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FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal to Their Total Operating Costs to Fund Public Broadcasting

(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.
 
Lloyd presented the idea in his 2006 book, Prologue to a Farce: Communications and Democracy in America, published by the University of Illinois Press.
 
Lloyd’s hope is to dramatically upgrade and revamp the Corporation for Public Broadcasting through new funding drawn from private broadcasters.
 
The CPB is a non-profit entity that was created by Congress and that currently receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal subsidies each year. In fiscal 2009, it is receiving an appropriation of $400 million.
 
“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must be reformed along democratic lines and funded on a substantial level,” Lloyd wrote in his book.

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Title: Re: FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal to T
Post by: Lord Undies on August 13, 2009, 07:05:06 AM
If funding PBS is so vital, then why-oh-why didn't PBS insist on being a part of the Sesame Street merchandising licensing FORTY YEARS AGO?  That licensing has been worth untold billions and could have provided PBS a nice income through the 29th century.
Title: Re: FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal to T
Post by: NHSparky on August 13, 2009, 07:31:02 AM
More proof that in the arena of public opinion, liberalism fails.

Time and again, liberalism shows it is a failure.
Title: Re: FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal to T
Post by: Chris_ on August 13, 2009, 07:34:40 AM
PBS =   :censored: Propaganda Broadcasting Collective.
Title: Re: FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal
Post by: thundley4 on August 13, 2009, 08:06:30 AM
That idea is the very essence of stupidity.  There are far fewer PBS stations in the country than there are private broadcasters.
Title: Re: FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal to T
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 13, 2009, 08:50:33 AM
If public broadcasting actually represented a diversity of viewpoints, this idea might at least have a fig-leaf of credibility, considering the source and all, but as it stands, it's just a combination of penalty for not being a Democrat mouthpiece and theft to fund those who are.
Title: Re: FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal to T
Post by: Ptarmigan on August 13, 2009, 11:43:27 AM
If PBS was not funded by the government, it would still operate because of donations.
Title: Re: FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer Wants Private Broadcasters to Pay a Sum Equal to T
Post by: Chris_ on August 13, 2009, 11:45:42 AM
If PBS was not funded by the government, it would still operate because of donations.
What percentage of their budget is government provided?