The FCC's Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age plans to meet Thursday. The group exists to "make recommendations to the FCC regarding policies and practices that will further enhance the ability of minorities and women to participate in telecommunications and related industries."
Seton Motley, director of communications for the Media Research Center, said the commission represents more than a dozen Leftist groups, but not a single conservative organization.
He said the goal is clear.
"The Left, no longer comfortable with trying the top-down, all-out assault that is the 'Fairness' Doctrine, intends instead to silence conservative and Christian talk via this broadcast license manipulation," Motley wrote in a recent blog post.
"If they can succeed in making it impossible for talk radio to operate as a business, talk radio will cease to operate. Leftist problem solved. 'Media diversity' is just the latest Leftist attempt to get this done."
The so-called Fairness Doctrine would force radio stations to "balance" opinions on controversial issues. It was put in place by the Federal Communications Commission in 1949, and was dropped as new technologies offered an abundance of sources for information.
— Jennifer Mesko
