Gene's Footnotes: A view of Alinsky via the FCC

Inspired by Saul Alinsky, FCC 'Diversity' Chief Calls for ‘Confrontational Movement’ to Give Public Broadcasting Dominant Role in Communications

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

By Matt Cover, Staff Writer

you will find a break down of the Saul Alinsky method as raised by the new Obama administration as to how it can be applied to radio and TV. The government can tax and downplay our current system in favor of "public media" and eight new czars. The mind set of these statists is, finally, clear to everyone but the severely challenged, those who can't deal with facts such as time lines, you know like Governor Dean.

Statist is a very good word because the regime, though now fracturing, is made up of socialists, Marxists, "liberals" (the undefined term), oligarchs, and millions of useful idiots. Mark Levin created that term in his recent book. The collapse of the ruling clan is inevitable where power has been achieved. The main concern of normal people is that one group doesn't extinguish the others, such as the Bolsheviks. I would expect the oligarchs, the rich ruling class, will snuff out the rabble left fairly soon. Watch. They will come to our rescue.

Here is a good sample of Alinsky-think, one not especially unusual, so you get a flavor of children in power:

... Throughout history, Lloyd said, “[t]he most powerful communications tool was deliberately placed in the hands of one faction in our republic: commercial industry.” {No, I don't know of a non-commercial industry.}

“Neither Progressive era reforms nor new communications technologies have been able to correct the problems resulting from government abdication of a responsibility to advance the equal capability of citizen discourse,” Lloyd added. {What?}

“Corporate liberty has overwhelmed citizen equality,” he wrote....

Apparently, someone deliberately gave Edison the entertainment business that didn't exist before he and others invented it, and a major business to RKO before they created the radio networks. How dare these business do business. Of course, radio, movies, and TV, before they existed, should have been given to the people to run.

Also, one has to surmise, it is an abuse of liberty of the citizen where, if the citizens doesn't listen to a bad show, it folds. This is obviously undemocratic. Obviously, the government must provide funding for the citizens who are too stupid to select their own programs. This is real democracy. Enlightened censorship is democracy. Peace is War. Good is Bad.

The interesting thing to keep in mind is that the major media is already leftist, click on the title for more discussion. I don't think you can seriously listen to someone who disagrees. They are disagreeing with those they defend.

So, what we are faced with is a desire for more direct propaganda - and taxes of the commercial sector (which, surprise, means you.) We are faced with an attempt to silence any voice out of sync - hence the Internet is a target though it does not come under the FCC's enabling act. The Internet terrifies the oligarchs. They can get at Glenn Beck and Mark Levin in all manner of ways, but the Internet was established clear of the government's direct regulation. This area will require an overt fascism clear even to Silicon Valley.

Here is a parting view from Lewis:

...“It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press,” he said. “This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. 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.”

“[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance,” said Lloyd. “[T]he problem is not only the warp to our public philosophy of free speech, but that the government has abandoned its role of advancing the communications capabilities of real people.”

So, take away this: the FCC has a diversity czar dedicated to creating an Obama controlled media by declaring the current media is "commercial."

Another point to ponder is: how does this Alinksy approach to being radical (Alinksy wrote Lucifer was the first radical) work when you are actually in power? This makes no sense. Those in power need to create some other demon to attack - but they are in power. They gain power by pretending to champion the people, then when they are in power, they inflame things by attacking the people.
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A lesson from the father of mass media control, a socialist oligarch:

Goebbels' project: