FCC Diversity Czar and his plans.

[OvenMaster]

Nearly every country in the world has some sort of government-sponsored or operated broadcasting entity, usually radio, often television. The BBC and CBC come to mind immediately.

I spotted this: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/52435

The FCC Diversity Czar wants to have "...private broadcasting companies pay licensing fees equal to their total operating costs to allow public broadcasting outlets to spend the same on their operations as the private companies do."

Okay, sounds expensive to me. DAMN expensive. Especially since he wants "...to make sure they focused on “diverse views” and government activities.

“Local public broadcasters and regional and national communications operations should be required to encourage and broadcast diverse views and programs,”... “These programs should include coverage of all local, state and federal government meetings, as well as daily news and public issues programming.

“In addition, educational programs for children and adults, and diverse, independent personal and cultural expression should be encouraged".

Apparently this guy forgot about Voice of America.

I mean, my God, our taxes are already being spent on this to the tune of billions of dollars yearly, yet the vast majority of Americans have no clue that VOA exists at all... because it's all aimed at OVERSEAS audiences.

Why doesn't the government just simply rebroadcast our own Voice Of America programming, both on radio and television, domestically? Either buy a low-rated radio or TV station in each market from Clear Channel, or set up a national low-power network, AND save the nation's private broadcasters from having to fund it?

Or.. is that all too common-sense?