BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and his committee staff found that insufficient management and devolved operating structures for digital advertising at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and Voice of America (VOA) in the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), previously called the…
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BBG Watch Commentary U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO John Lansing, who had been appointed in 2015 during the Obama administration, had ignored early warnings of taxpayer-funded USAGM media entities such as the Voice of America (VOA) targeting Americans in violation of the Smith-Mundt Act. Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Rep. Ed…
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BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and his committee staff found that insufficient management and devolved operating structures for digital advertising at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and Voice of America (VOA) in the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), previously called the…
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BBG Watch Commentary It did not occur to International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) bureacrats that Americans might not like the removal of the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act restrictions on domestic distribution of U.S. government-funded news for audiences abroad. They were not prepared for Voice of America (VOA) programs being inaccurately described in media reports as propaganda. They…
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BBG Watch Commentary The Post and Courier, the main daily newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, has called for restoring the Smith-Mundt government propaganda ban on domestic distribution of U.S. international broadcasting programs such as those produced by the Voice of America (VOA) under the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). The editorial, titled, Big Brother in…
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LIPIEN: Losing the information war Washington Times, July 29, 2013 I fear the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 for somewhat … of a previous legal ban on the U.S. government’s domestic propaganda.
Op-Ed: Federal employees identify US stations for government-paid news … DigitalJournal.com-Jul 27, 2013 … congressional modification in the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act, U.S. officials may try to target Americans with government propaganda, the federal …
Propaganda Ban Reversal Draws Criticism BuzzFeed-Jul 25, 2013 The change to the Smith-Mundt Act, which regulates U.S. public … will not only expose Americans to more government propaganda than ever …
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 …