OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT MEDIA……BROADCASTERS AT THE TROUGH
From The Wall Street Journal article, Minority Broadcasters Seek Federal Aid:
WASHINGTON—A group of minority broadcasters asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Monday for financial assistance akin to the aid that has been extended to the financial and auto industries.
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The broadcasters appeal follows a proposal sent in May to Mr. Geithner by a group of influential House members asking for a minority broadcaster support program, bridge funding, or government-backed loans.
Strangely the outfit advocating this madness is named “Free Press”.
But….instead if a Free Press they actually are quietly setting the stage for a very expensive subsidized press.
It seems that under the guise of community standards and racial balance the Democrats will pursue officially sanctioned racism, using the power of government to force a division of public assets (broadcast frequency allocation and licensing) based on pigmentation. Martin Luther King must be spinning in his grave as we are asked to support racial balkanization rather than a color blind society.
This is wrong in so many ways.
You can count on the silence of the North Dakota congressional (Conrad, Dorgan, and Pomeroy) delegation on this one. Count on it.