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page describes a campaign. For a personal biography, see
Profile of
Mark Lloyd.
Obama's
Federal Communications Commission "Diversity Czar" Mark Lloyd once said:
There are few things, I think, more frightening in
the American mind than dark-skinned black men. Here I am.
Lloyd, a 55-year-old civil-rights attorney, took office on August 4,
2009, in Obama’s newly created FCC post of Associate General Counsel
/ Chief Diversity Officer. The post of chief diversity officer in
the FCC, unlike the same job title in corporations and universities,
has no policy-making power and no control over the FCC’s budget ($335,794,000 for 2010). But his socialist
views before being appointed alarmed Americans far more than his
dark skin.
The Wall Street Journal said,
“Mr.
Lloyd in the past has criticized corporate ownership of media
outlets, saying it has led to conservative dominance of talk radio.”
The WSJ also noted that Lloyd was a senior fellow at John
Podesta’s Center for
American Progress in 2007, and co-authored a report “that
proposed ways the FCC could change the balance of conservatives to
progressives on talk radio by imposing new rules on the radio
industry, such as more frequent license renewals and a national
radio-ownership cap.”
Investor’s Business Daily
(IBD) headlined an editorial, “Diversity Czar Threatens Free Speech,”
with a subhead reading:
1st Amendment: Mark Lloyd, a disciple
of Saul Alinsky and fan of Hugo Chavez, wants to destroy talk
radio and says free speech is a distraction. The new FCC
diversity “czar” says Venezuela is an example we should follow.
To underscore the Chavez remark, IBD quoted a
June 10 video of Lloyd at
the
Free Press 2008
National Conference
for Media
Reform, which showed him
saying:
In Venezuela, with Chavez, it’s really an incredible revolution - a
democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are
going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela.
The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in
Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S.
government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another
revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media
in his country.
Mr. Lloyd's praise of Chavez earned him
a place on an old Soviet propaganda poster of Lenin / Lloyd leading
the people to socialist glory - not exactly something the Obama
administration wanted Americans to think about their Federal
Communications Commission Diversity Czar.
Investor’s Business Daily
editors did not mischaracterize Lloyd,
who did indeed refer extensively in his
2006 book,
Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America,
to Saul Alinsky as a model
for activists (pages 249 and 271 through 276), and indeed
Lloyd calls for an all-out “confrontational movement” against
private media.
But the truth could
not be allowed to stand. So an army of Obama
non-profit supporters came forward to deny it all by changing the
subject and not addressing the concerns. So, on September 16, 2009,
a letter went to the FCC's Commissioners and selected members of
Congress with the title, "Public Interest and Civil Rights Groups
Speak Out Against Unfounded Attacks on Mark Lloyd." It had the
sub-title:
More than 50 organizations call on the FCC and
Congress to support the work of the FCC diversity officer and to
correct the record on localism and diversity policies
What the long letter didn't say was how closely connected to Obama
the 55 authors were and how rich their groups were from left-wing
donors including George Soros, Peter Lewis, and other ultra-partisan
Democrat fat-cats. Groups with combined annual revenues of several
hundred million dollars put full effort into keeping Obama's Media
Diversity Czar in office.
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THE 55 SIGNERS
THAT
WROTE TO SAVE MARK LLOYD (with group income) |
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Josh Silver
Free Press
$2,702,303 |
Wade Henderson
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights $1,073,950 |
Winnie Stachelberg
Center for American Progress $26,638,475 |
James Rucker
Color Of Change
(ColorOfChange.org) $343,651 |
Stephanie Jones
National Urban League Policy Institute $47,145,386 |
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Brent Wilkes
League of United Latin American Citizens (Income Secret) |
Larry Cohen
Communications Workers of America $176,856,960
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Alex Nogales
National Hispanic Media Coalition $559,071
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Bernie Lunzer
The Newspaper Guild
$3,816,429 |
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Kimberly Marcus
Rainbow PUSH Coalition's Public Policy Institute(Income
secret)
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Malkia Cyril
Center for Media Justice
$60,000+ |
Andrew Schwartzman
Media Access Project
$619,284 |
John Kosinski
Writers Guild of America West $23,196,986
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Sandy Close
New
America Media
(Project of Pacific News Service)
$6,593,313
|
Amalia Deloney
Media Action Grassroots Network (Project of Center for Media
Justice) |
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Angelo Falcon
National Institute for Latino Policy $2,325 |
Michael Calabrese
New
America Foundation
$14,193,707 |
Melanie Campbell
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation $2,089,992 |
Gigi Sohn
Public Knowledge $687,720 |
Rinku Sen
Applied Research Center $2,555,600 |
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John Clark
National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians
$424,306 |
Graciela Sanchez
Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
$596,597
|
Mimi Pickering
Appalshop $1,526,372
|
Steven Renderos
Main
Street Project $557,880
|
Hal Ponder
American Federation of Musicians $12,210,236
|
Tracy Rosenberg
Media Alliance $139,150
|
Terry O'Neill
National Organization for Women
$3,680,200
|
Roger Hickey
Campaign for America's Future
$1,301,395
|
Andrea Quijada
New Mexico Media
Literacy Project
(Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc.)
$345,812 |
Jonathan Lawson
Reclaim the
Media
(Center for Social Justice - Seattle)
$32,572 |
DeAnne Cuellar
Texas Media Empowerment Project
(Esperanza
Peace and Justice Center)
$596,597 |
Chris Rabb
Afro-Netizen
(Bread & Roses Community
Fund)
$721,296 |
Loris Ann Taylor
Center for Native American Public Radio
(National
Federation of Community Broadcasters)
$776,940 |
Lisa Fager Bediako
Industry Ears
(Form 990 not available) |
O. Ricardo Pimentel
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
$1,159,872 |
Todd Wolfson
Media Mobilizing Project
$257,528 |
Erica Williams
Campus Progress
(Center
for American Progress) |
Gary Flowers
Black Leadership Forum
$297,181 |
Eva Paterson
Equal Justice Society
$878,118 |
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.
Hip Hop Caucus
Peace Action Education Fund $871,694 |
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Cheryl Contee
Jack
and Jill Politics
(BLOGGERPOWER ORG)
$902,822 |
Dr. E. Faye Williams
National Congress of Black Women
$496,705 |
Emily Sheketoff
American Library Association
$57,224,984 |
Ari Rabin-Havt
Media Matters Action Network(Form
990 not available) |
Kathryn Galan
National Association of Latino Independent Producers
$1,021,182
|
Roberto
Lovato
Presente
(writer, blogger) |
Joshua Breitbart
People's Production House
(fiscal sponsor: Fund for the City of New York)$34,682,290 |
No Photo
Karen Bond
National Black Coalition for Media Justice
(no record of incorporation or exempt status) |
Tracy Van Slyke
Media Consortium
(fiscal sponsor: National Training & Information Center)
$1,367,648
|
Shireen Mitchell
Digital Sisters, Inc
(fiscal sponsor:
National Council of Women's Organizations)
$371,153 |
Tessie Guillermo
ZeroDivide:
$1,286,208
|
Ariel Dougherty
Media Equity Collaborative (fiscal sponsor:
International
Media Project)
$280,376 |
Helen Soule
Alliance for Community Media
$580,812 |
Helen De Michiel
National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture
(a non-exempt professional network) |
Carol Pierson
National Federation of Community Broadcasters
$776,940
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