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Talk Radio Czar: Mark Lloyd

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Fast Facts
- He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
- 20 Years as a reporter and producer at both NBC and CNN
- Served as a consultant to the Clinton White House
- Previously, Mr. Lloyd worked as general counsel to the Benton Foundation and as a communications attorney at Dow, Lohnes & Albertson in Washington, D.C. representing both commercial and non-commercial companies.
- From the fall of 2002 until the summer of 2004, Mr. Lloyd was a Martin Luther King, Jr. visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught communications policy and wrote and conducted research on the relationship between communications policy and strong democratic communities.
- Wrote a book called Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America (2006) The book argues against media and communications being controlled by Free Markets, and would be better suited Funded by the government with the “intention” of providing better local coverage.
- Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
- Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at the Leadership Conference of Civil Rights (LCCR/EF) - Founded in 1969, LCEF initiatives are grounded in the belief that an informed public is more likely to support effective federal civil rights and social justice policies.

In July 29th, Mark Lloyd joined the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as its new associate general counsel and chief diversity officer.

For the record the position of “Chief Diversity Officer” has never before existed

 

The FCC is the federal agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.  In his new position, Lloyd will help the FCC to develop communications policy that will increase media diversity and address the needs of low-income people, women, minorities, and people with disabilities.

Lloyd, a communications lawyer and former broadcast journalist, was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress before joining LCCR/EF as vice president for strategic initiatives, where he provided strategic guidance for the organization's media and telecommunications work.

The common theme of his beliefs throughout the years is a wide body of publications, book, interviews and public testimony can be summed up in a simple philosophical paradox:  Media communications is all forms is bad because it exists in a free market system.  He believes that a network of local services, all funded by the federal government, would better serve the people.

While he blames the national media systems in the US and abroad for everything from the genocides in Doffer Africa to the Vietnam war, he operates under the falsehood that if only government could have full control that more accurate news would result.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Famous Quotes:

"It is my opinion that Congress and the American people will accept nothing less than strong credible rules that encourage local coverage, diverse programming, and minority, female, and local ownership of media outlets."

“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) must be reformed along democratic lines and funded on a substantial level. Federal and regional broadcast operations and local stations should be funded at levels commensurate with or above those spending levels at which commercial operations are funded,” Lloyd wrote. “This funding should come from license fees charged to commercial broadcasters. Funding should not come from congressional appropriations. Sponsorship should be prohibited at all public broadcasters.”

 

Videos:

Video #1 - Produces by the Center for American Progress (you know the DNC Talking Points People) Anyone else thinking "Atlas Shrugged?

Video #2 - Part one of a Media Reform and Social Change speach AKA "Me parties opinion or the Highway"

Video #3 - Part two of a Media Reform and Social Change speach AKA "Me parties opinion or the Highway"

Video #4 - CSPAN - 2005 Hearing in Washington DC "Atlas Shrugged" again, anyone see a long standing pattern here?  What is it with the contant referances to the post office lately?


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