FCC Diversity Czar On Incredible Democratic Revolution

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Mark Lloyd - Alinskyite Chavista Borker
"our work was not simply convincing policy makers of the logic or morality of our arguments. We understood that we were in a struggle for power against an oppenent, the commercial broadcasters ...."

"We looked to successful political campaigns and organizers as a guide, especially the civil rights movement, Saul Alinsky, and the campaign to prevent the Supreme Court nomination of the ultra-conservative jurist Robert Bork"

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The government took off the gloves in its running battle with the more independently minded media, as Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz insisted that the state had to take action in the face of new forms of criminality that have arisen as a consequence of the abusive exercise of freedom of information and opinion.

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Infrastructure Minister Diosdado Cabello closed 34 radio stations in July, saying the government was "democratizing" media ownership. Critics say the move limits freedom of expression and has taken critical voices off the airwaves.

The powerful Chavez ally has threatened to close over 100 stations in total, part of a long-term campaign against private media that the government says are biased against Chavez's government.