Mark Lloyd (lawyer)
Mark Lloyd | |
|---|---|
| FCC Chief Diversity Officer | |
| Assumed office August 4, 2009 | |
| FCC Associate General Counsel | |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | American |
Mark Lloyd is the associate general counsel and Chief Diversity Officer at the Federal Communications Commission of the USA.[1][2] He was appointed to the newly created position by United States President Barack Obama on August 4, 2009.
He was previously the vice president for strategic initiatives at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Lloyd was also an affiliate professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, and in the years from 2002-2004 Lloyd was a visiting lecturer at MIT where he conducted research and taught about communications policy.[citation needed]
Controversy
Lloyd promotes public radio and in 2007 called for public broadcasters to "be funded at levels commensurate or above" budgets at private broadcasting companies. Additionally, Lloyd called for the public broadcasters to be funded entirely through fees on private broadcasters. [3] Lloyd promotes public radio and has promoted policies that would advance public radio at the expense of private or corporate owned radio[4].
Lloyd is one of the Obama appointees who was targeted by conservative talk show host Glenn Beck in fall 2009.[5] Beck described Lloyd as the "diversity czar at the FCC," involved in one of the "diabolical hidden parts" of the administration's plan to "silence dissent" through "localism and diversity."[6][7] Beck also played a clip showing Lloyd admiring the rise of socialist-inspired Venezuela leader Hugo Chavez, and the "rebellion" against a media controlled by property owners, [8] calling it "an incredible revolution, a democratic revolution". [9] Venezuela is especially notable since a top official there has announced the closing of 34 radio stations in the process of "democratizing" media ownership[10] and the Attorney General pushed for a "Media Crimes Law". [11]
The conservative Media Research Center's Seton Motley has called Llloyd "virulently anti-capitalist, almost myopically racially fixated and exuberantly pro-regulation."[12]
In his defense, Amanda Terkel of ThinkProgress said that this and other criticisms of Lloyd are inaccurate in a post titled, "FACT CHECK: The Right-Wing Smear Against Mark Lloyd." [13] "What progressives like Lloyd are advocating is not more liberalism, but more localism," Terkel said.
References
- ^ "The Media Research Hub - Mark Lloyd". Social Science Research Council. Retrieved September 2, 2009.
- ^ "Office of General Counsel - Mark Lloyd, Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer". Federal Comunications Commission. Retrieved September 2, 2009.
- ^ “Prologue to a farce: communication and democracy in America", By Mark Lloyd, 2007, p 278.
- ^ “The Structural Imbalance Of Political Talk Radio,” John Halpin, Senior Fellow and Executive Speechwriter; James Heidbreder, Research Intern; Mark Lloyd, Senior Fellow; Paul Woodhull, Special Adviser, Founder and President of Media Syndication Service, June 26-27, 2007, p 2, 9-11.
- ^ Watch Dogs: FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWNER. Do not link before burning to disc. Glenn Beck, Twitter. September 3, 2009
- ^ Freedom of Speech Under Attack Glenn Beck Show, Fox News, August 26, 2009
- ^ Glenn Beck. Reasonable questions for unreasonable times, GlennBeck.com. August 28, 2009
- ^ "his efforts to establish a Socialist-inspired state"
- ^ Limbaugh on Attacks on Freedom of Speech Thursday, August 27, 2009 "In Venezuela, with Chavez really had an incredible revolution, a democratic revolution, and to begin to put in place, saying that we're going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela, the property owners and the folks who were then controlling the media in Venezuela rebelled. Worked, frankly, with the folks here in the U.S. government, worked to oust him and came back had another revolution. And Chavez then started to take the media very seriously in this country".
- ^ Chavez minister vows more Venezuela radio closings Sep 5, 2009
- ^ Venezuela Attorney General Pushes for Media Crimes Law By Jeremy Morgan Latin American Herald Tribune
- ^ Video: FCC 'Diversity' Czar on Chavez's Venezuela: 'Incredible...Democratic Revolution', Seton Motley, Newsbusters, August 28, 2009.
- ^ http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/22/mark-lloyd/
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