it involves the the new diversity czar at the f.c.c. i have told you for a long time, don't pay attention to the fairness doctrine thing that will shut down voices like mine on the radio or mine and bill o'reilly on t.v. that's too obvious. they're going to do it through localism an diverse t.i. the final piece of the argument p will be against these giant corporations, broadcast groups like, g.e., but of course g.e. is fine. they have too much power. this has been my warning and my theory. well, a week and a half ago, i began to look into the f.c.c. diversity czar, mark lloyd. i just -- i want to show you what he said in his 2006 book "prolog to a farce, communications and democracy in america." quote "it should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or press. this freedom is often too 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." i'm sorry. i just have to choke that one do down. "freedom

it involves the the new diversity czar at the f.c.c. i have told you for a long time, don't pay attention to the fairness doctrine thing that will shut down voices like mine on the radio or mine and bill o'reilly on t.v. that's too obvious. they're going to do it through localism an diverse t.i. the final piece of the argument p will be against these giant corporations, broadcast groups like, g.e., but of course g.e. is fine. they have too much power. this has been my warning and my theory. well, a week and a half ago, i began to look into the f.c.c. diversity czar, mark lloyd. i just -- i want to show you what he said in his 2006 book "prolog to a farce, communications and democracy in america." quote "it should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or press. this freedom is often too 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." i'm sorry. i just have to choke that one do down. "freedom

this one at the f.c.c. back again is he seat ton motley of the media research center. seton, there is a part here that this cannot be right. lloyd suggests finding conservative -- fining conservative radio stations up to $250 million and giving the proceeds to the government subsidized corporation of public broadcasting. >> that's not exactly right. that's an estimated total of what the operating costs for someone like premier broadcasting who simulates large shows like rush limbaugh among them. that is a simulation of the fine we have been discussing, which is dollar for dollar of their total operating costs. just to be fair. glenn: so it's not a fine if you're a conservative radio station? >> he has laid out a road map for liberal attacks to attack conservative and christian talk stations, however. glenn: ok. >> you said forget the fairness doctrine. a month after his report came out he wrote a report called "forget the fairness doctrine" in which he uses a way for them to threaten licenses if they are politically opposed to what they're saying on the air. glenn: it

did you see what we have been playing here, what the diversity officer of the f.c.c. aid about venezuela? >> with all due respect, he is a complete lunatic if he believes that venezuela is the model we ought to be following. does barack obama understand this? i agree with you. why isn't someone standing up in the white house briefing room and saying with all due respect, mouthpiece gibbs, does the president believe that venezuela is the model of what we ought to achieve in american media? glenn: and if not, why is this man the diversity czar? >> right. glenn: should you have a communist, self avowed revoluntionary who named his son, four-year-old son after a marxist guerilla leader, should that person be advising the president of the united states? why are they not asking this question? >> well, we have an incredibly mients press corps, and the arrogance that mr. gibbs displays when he is dealing with them shows that they are held in disrespect even by the people they are supposed to be covering. the white house and burton understands that the white house press corps i

the econoc stimulus package passed in jaary calls on the f.c.c. o develop a plan by february 2010 as part of the process, the f.c.c. is holding a series of workshops on national broadband one this morning here and another we'll cover this afternoon. live getting underway here on c-span2. >> i encourage you to read their bios, because it is a very impressive panel. first we have jim prieger, an associate professor of public policy at pepperdine and actually just finished spending a year here at the f.c.c as a senior economist. he specializes in industrial organization, applied econometrics and writes more broadly, such as on cell phones and driving and the effects of the americans with disabilities act on retail firms, so if you have very question about economics, come see him afterwards. >> thank you very much. well, i want to thank scott, don, and the commission for this opportunity to come back. in some ways, it feels like just coming bac from my august vacation, being back at the f.c.c. so i asked to speak first because what i'm going to do is t

in some ways, it feels like just coming back from my august vacation, being back at the f.c.c. o i asked to speak first because what i'm going to do is try to provide a bit of an overview on the topic of today, from the standpoints of academia and academic studies that have been do, that hopefully will be useful to set the context for what we're looking at so i wanted to start by looking at macro approaches that have been taken to measuring, to a lesser extent, employment, most of what i'll talk about today has to do with productivity studies and there's, the smallest litature is that that deals with broadband if particular. stepping back, a lot of -- well, many mother studies have looked at communications technology and then there's a middle set of studies that have looked at communicions more broadly than just broadba, so most of the results that i'll mention have to do with ict, because, to be nest, there are very few that look at broadba specifically, but many of the sam issues pertain. so these studies disaggregate to different levels this way, but regardless of the type of

i think there's some studies that clearly get at -- and i think the stimulus bill and what the f.c.c. and ntia are looking at and are going to show this that computer ownership is still an issue in this country, if you don't have a computer, you don't need broadband, but at the same time, in many of those communities they have mobile devices and cutting edge mobile devices that they can access some of the benefits of broadband. they even know certain cutting edge technologies like the i phone, the palm pre, the blackberry storm are changing that ability. you look at some of the net books coming out on the market, some of the deals you see wireless carriers making for a contract at a cheap price. that is rest revolutionary for helping smaller communities access broadband, because the purchase of a computer was often an impediment to that and the ability to get a new net book that enables them to do everything they need to do for $99 or for free, i'm not sure if it's free yet, it probably will be the way the market goes on some of these things, it's phenomenal. it's a game changer. we t

regulation and the federal reserve and the f.c.c. and the soviet union in your mind? >> if you want to regulate out greed, you want to regulate out bubbles and financial -- >> ok, you're become being repetitive. >> -- you will get the soviet union. >> mr. madrick, thank you very much. mr. gasparino, you're subject to cross-examination. mr. moore. >> mr. gasparino, it's good to see you. >> i'm sure of that. >> you seem to be very bothered by some of these high executive salaries that some of these c.e.o.'s were made. >> i'm just stating the facts, sir. >> do you have any idea how much money lebron james makes? >> i don't care. >> would it surprise you to know he makes $40 million? >> do you have any idea how much money hannah montana makes? >> would it surprise, you, sir, to know she makes over $50 million. >> she didn't blow up the economy. >> mr. moore, don't ask him how much the mayor of las vegas makes, ok? >> now here is my question to you, sir. can we agree that someone who runs a major company with thousands, if not tens of thousands of employees, who has oversi

was from the bra of newt minno whoecame chairman of the f.c.c. under jack kennedy. as his idea and frank stanton who w then president of cbs. it got int the number one issue wasixon's makeup. whichs ridiculous. i mean, we're picking a president of the united ates anthe issue is nixon's makeup. there ha been so many extraneous issues like being asked, inew jack kennedy a ou know jack kennedy, the insults, ronald agan saying to jmy carter, there you go again, i thought there was la of dignity and it became kind o television shows. tavis: you know what's inic as we s and have this conversation and listen to you telle about what it's like to behere and produce that eventn 1960, as i sit and list to you tack about -- you talk about it,hat occurs to me whatame out of that debate by your o admission is great deal of conversation abo symbol ice hi and nixon not wearing keup and sweating profusely and how tan and handsome and matinee idolishnd tan h kennedy lked. and it w style over stance then and here were in 2008 and we're still getting the same kindf conversatio about the

the phone calls of what are they doing? we better speak up, because this is going to undermine our politics, plus they are up to things like f.c.c. that scare me and the internet that is really frightening. glenn: pat, i want to talk to you again. we have a network break. >> praise for the cuban healthcare system and fidel castro at a healthcare town hall. what is america headed for? next. hard-hitting, straightforward and tough. quality and reliability... are more than words here. it's personal. i have diabetes. rodney's kid too. so we're so proud to manufacture... the accu-chek® aviva meters and test strips... here in the u.s.a. plus, we've proven you'll waste 50% fewer strips... when you use our meter, which means greater savings... for people with diabetes, like me. now that's a true american value. accu-chek® aviva. born in the u.s.a. glenn: america, we have to find a way to each other. we have to find a way to get this message to the reasonable people of america. a lot of people ain't going to listen to me because they hate my guts or think whatever. that's fine. how do you bring this information? it makes me uncomfortable

the white house hasn't bothered to spin that information or the information we presented on the f.c.c. diversity czar. this is disturbing. this man's name is mark lloyd. he actually lamented on the fact that non-state-run radio stations prevented the incredible revolution of hugo chavez in venezuela. >> venezuela and chavez have run an incredible revolution to begin to put in place saying that we're going to have impact on the people of venezuela, the property owners who have been controlling and the folks who were then controlling the media in sen ven rebelled, work, frankly with folks here in the u.s. government. glenn: wow, the pesky private sector and property owners. why don't you just take them? it is just littered with that non-propaganda talk, isn't it? we must stop that, and that is exactly what this man is he prepared to do. lloyd has talked about balancing out the airwaves, and that's not just conservatives. that's balancing them out with anyone who doesn't agree with the state and this new revolution. again, the white house has not disputed any of this. quite frankly, i ha

we don't have enough speed for the two-way, but we hope -- we hope with the work of the f.c.c. nd a policy for this country to be there shortly. some things that we have learned, and that would be the next slide. the bottom there. speed matters. and i think christopher mentned a speed test that was in the "u.s.a. today" and that actually is a test that cwa did that shows the different speeds in the different states and where the different states fall. speed does matter for instruction. so not only do you have to be able to afford internet, but you have to have fast internet, or else these courses are very, very tedious and frustrating and the learning is not as good. instructors matter p you can't just take a classroom instructor and say now you're going to do an on-line cours it doesn't work that way. it's different. some classroom instructors make the transition very well. others don't like it. and aren't very good at it. there is actually -- and this is something people often don't understand. there is actually more instructor-student interaction oftentimes on line, than ther

were going to do, so we can evaluate that and my suggestion for the analyses is, you know, here at the f.c.c, you know, hopefully you can be freed up to do good empirical analysis, where the conclusion is going to come from the data, not from other quarters, and external analysis is always good, partner with academia, there are professors across the nation with graduate students who would love to get the data to work on this sort of stuff and can help you out a lot. thank you very much. >> thanks, jim. i also forgot to mention that if you have questions, you should write them down on a card, and give them to carrie lee earl, who will collect them. yes. >> our next speaker is mr. goldfarb who is at the robert h. smith school of business. he studies issues such as the exchange of technology, a traditional economic goods, national innovation systems and the relationship to firms and policies. >> thank you, scott. i am going to use my time to talk about broadbent as a general purpose technology. this is going to echo some of the pops and unravel some of the things that james was talking about. s