Citing 'Diversity,' Obama Admin Sides with Leftist Grievance Group

Since the inception of tracking those who listen to Guglielmo Marconi's marvelous invention, Arbitron had relied on a personal pen-and-paper diary system and the journal-keepers' honor and memory as to what they had listened and for how long they had done so. The potential for misremembering and book-cooking was simply staggering.

So Arbitron came up with a pager-esque device called the Portable People Meter (PPM). This gadget automatically tracks to where the radio dial is tuned, thereby virtually eliminating human error and the ability to cheat.

Obviously, this is far more accurate way to establish who is listening to whom, right? If you do find this to be a self-evident truth, you are not a master of the obvious, you are - according to the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) - a racist bigot.

How so? Because the ratings under the new regime revealed that the numbers for hip-hop, urban and other racial minority stations had long been incorrectly inflated (and conversely the listenership of talk radio had long been underreported).

And this, you see, is not the better results of technological advancement, this is racism... [snip]

This new grievance gaggle is made up of groups with names quite reminiscent of the un-diverse FCC "Diversity" Committee that convened on May 7:

• National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB)
• Spanish Radio Association
• Minority Media and Telecommunications Council
• American Hispanic Advertising Association
• Border Media Partners
• Entravision Communications Corporation
• ICBC Broadcast Holdings, Inc.
• Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc.
• Univision Communications Inc.

That Obama's FCC has picked up and made official this pseudo-intellectual twaddle - and assigned the Agency that determines the fate of every broadcaster in America the task of its investigation - isn't very heartening to those of us still enamored with the First Amendment.

As we've already seen in myriad other areas - federal spending, banking and auto manufacturing to name but a few - timidity is not an Obama characteristic. If he is willing to take on this most ridiculous of claims in the name of media "Diversity," we are naturally left to think that there is nearly nothing he WON'T do to ensure that the broadcast world is remade in the manner he thinks it should be.

[SOP: stack a 'panel of experts' with left wing radicals, rely on the MSM to portray it as legitimate, and voila: you can pursue any extreme agenda you want with impunity because 'the experts suggested it'.

This is the same scam being perpetrated in the so-called Health Care Reform 'debate' - stacked with industry representatives but not a single consumer group.

With a duplicitous media and foks who get their news from TV, all things are possible.]

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