El Zar de la FCC toma lecciones de Chavez y Kirchner

Miraba el post de Luis sobre el artículo de Emilio Cárdenas y me quedé pensando en que, después de todo en Latinoamérica estamos acostumbrados a los avances de los poderes sobre la libertad de prensa y expresión, aunque coincido en que nunce se vió una embestida tan coordinada y vasta como ésta.

Pero la nota de Càrdenas no hace mención a algo mucho mas terrible. Esto està pasando en EEUU también, por ahora en un grado de tentativa o globo de ensayo. Vean si no lo que dice el "Diversity Czar" de la FCC (otro de los cargos inventados para no tener que pasar por audiencias del Senado) :

[Mark Lloyd], President Obama's diversity czar at the Federal Communications Commission has spoken publicly of getting white media executives to "step down" in favor of minorities, prescribed policies to make liberal talk radio more successful, and described Hugo Chavez's rise to power in Venezuela "an incredible revolution."

[...] In a video clip of the conference that has been aired by Fox News personality Glenn Beck and others, Mr. Lloyd seems be siding with the anti-American leader against independent media outlets in his own country, some of which supported a short-lived coup against Mr. Chavez in 2002.

"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," Mr. Lloyd said. "But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country." [...]


At another conference, Mr. Lloyd spoke about the need to remove white people from powerful positions in the media to give minorities a fairer chance.

"There's nothing more difficult than this because we have really truly, good, white people in important positions, and the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions," he said. "And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions, we will not change the problem. But we're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power."

[...] Other bloggers are questioning Mr. Lloyd's commitment to free speech based on a line in his 2006 book, "Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America."

"At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies," Mr. Lloyd wrote. "The purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance." [...]

The researchers [Mr. Lloyd and co-author John Halpin] also proposed putting caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations, giving local authorities more control over radio licensing and requiring commercial owners "who fail to abide by enforceable public interest obligations" to pay fines that would go toward public broadcasting.

Leyendo los dos últimos parrafos, literalmente me corre frío por la espalda, por la patente similitud con el discurso kirchnerista. Si esto está pasando en the land of the free and home of the brave, que nos queda a nosotros sino el Road to Serfdom ?

Es desesperante.