Feds Repeal ‘Domestic Propaganda‘ Ban Wizbang (blog)-by Warner Todd Huston-Jul 24, 2013 With the updating of the Smith-Mundt Act, some are criticizing the … of the ban on governmentpropaganda and says it will unleash “thousands …
US International Broadcasting Finally Accessible for Americans Heritage.org (blog)-by Helle Dale-Jul 23, 2013 Provisions in the original Smith–Mundt Act, which authorized U.S. … is not Stalin-style propaganda, but world news collected and written by …
Propaganda? No. Bringing ‘Voice of America’ To America Is Good for … PBS MediaShift – Jul 23, 2013 Government press is not part of the American constitutional tradition and should have no role in American life. The risks to free press and other civil liberties do not justify any of the dubious benefits that the change in the…
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It was always legal for Americans and American media to use U.S. government-funded news programs in the United States and rebroadcast such programs if they had obtained access to them on their own. In other words, there were no legal prohibitions on using such programs by American citizens, residents of the United States or American…
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Taxpayer money at work: US-funded foreign broadcasts finally … NBCNews.com (blog)-Jul 20, 2013 The purpose of the Smith-Mundt Act — also called the U.S. … D-Ark., declared the U.S. was fundingpropaganda, and argued Voice of America, …
Big Brother Speaks! Huffington Post (satire)-Jul 19, 2013 Allow us to explain: The propaganda arm of the United States is enormously well … Thanks to an amendment to the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act — an …
New law ‘allows Obama to take over all media’ WND.com-Jul 19, 2013 You’ll never know going forward if this is propaganda or if this is a news … audiences,’ it does not neutralize or repeal Smith-Mundt and, in fact, …
US Government-Funded News Comes Home Inter Press Service-Jul 17, 2013 The Smith-Mundt Act was established in 1948, at the outset of the Cold … government news aspropaganda and said the agencies “should be …
The Case for American Propaganda Foreign Policy (blog)-Jul 17, 2013 Late in 2012, Congress passed the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, and in … the horror of “government propaganda” hitting the U.S. airwaves.
From Digital Journal: Government officials used deceptive propaganda to get congress to overturn a ban on government news distribution in the U.S. Would government officials resort to deceptive propaganda to help them get the U.S. Congress to overturn an old law, the Smith-Mundt Act, which prohibited them from distributing government-funded news to Americans? They most…
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