U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans
For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences.
JULY 14, 2013, 7:06 PM
For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government’s mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. So what just happened?
Until this month, a vast ocean of U.S. programming produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks could only be viewed or listened to at broadcast quality in foreign countries. The programming varies in tone and quality, but its breadth is vast: It’s viewed in more than 100 countries in 61 languages. The topics covered include human rights abuses in Iran, self-immolation in Tibet, human trafficking across Asia, and on-the-ground reporting in Egypt and Iraq.

The restriction of these broadcasts was due to the Smith-Mundt Act, a long-standing piece of legislation that has been amended numerous times over the years, perhaps most consequentially by Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright. In the 1970s, Fulbright was no friend of VOA and Radio Free Europe, and moved to restrict them from domestic distribution, saying they "should be given the opportunity to take their rightful place in the graveyard of Cold War relics." Fulbright’s amendment to Smith-Mundt was bolstered in 1985 by Nebraska Senator Edward Zorinsky, who argued that such "propaganda" should be kept out of America as to distinguish the U.S. "from the Soviet Union where domestic propaganda is a principal government activity."

Zorinsky and Fulbright sold their amendments on sensible rhetoric: American taxpayers shouldn’t be funding propaganda for American audiences. So did Congress just tear down the American public’s last defense against domestic propaganda?

Don't go away mad. Just go away.

Get it a break, that horse is dead.

LoL! the New York Slimes! ROTFLMAO
Using one liar to prop up another.

Watched it.
A lot of it I knew, some new revelations were new to me. In all, very informative, nicely edited. As with so many documentaries these days, they need to turn down the volume of the music score. Very distracting.

Who is Robert Sarbacher?
Hint: You won't find a page on this world famous scientist in wiki. Why?
Wiki is worse than useless, it is the poster child of misinformation/disinformation.

I am studying American history. Reconstruction was started, but never finished. Instead American made a devils margin with England to cover our war debt. We became AMERICA Inc. with England as our bond holder. We remain debt slaves to foreign countries via the Central Bank System. You'll never find that in wiki.

I don't know why this is news. I've been reading articles about it for a decade at least. I believe the edit history is public and you can see IP addresses. It is well known that a lot of government employees are active editors. The state controls its livestock by physical violence just as well as mental abuse, such as propaganda, brainwashing and gaslighting.

I recommend to everyone who is not a goose-stepping collectivist ideologue to switch to the Hoaxipedia alternative that the collectivist crowd is desperately trying to hide:

Infogalactic.
http://www.infogalactic.com

It has the same format and much of the same content as Hoaxipedia, but its treatment of contentious political topics is shorn of the hard-Left slant for which Hoaxipedia has become famous, generally altering language to the neutral lingo that any respectable encyclopedia (which Hoaxipedia is not,) should have. A simple example would be a comparison of the Martin Durkin film "The Great Global Warming Swindle" and its respective writups by Hoaxipedia and by Infogalactic.

There are a lot of topics which still do not have Infogalactic entries, but that will change with time as the site is relatively new. (And as a pretty stark indicator of how far down the lunatic-fringe Leftwing rabbit-hole Orwoogle has gone, a search for Infogalactic there yields no results. None. I counted 109 links on an Orwoogle search for "Infogalactic" before I got the "Not relevant" notice, and not a one of them was the simple link to Infogalactic.com. Doing the same search on every other major search engine - Qwant, SwissCows, DuckDuckGo, even Bing and Yahoo - not known for their affinity to anything this side of loon-Left - brings up Infogalactic.com at the #1 spot at the top of the list. Orwoogle is apparently at war against reality.)

Looking for facts on anything more controversial than Elvis' birth and death dates at Hoaxipedia should be considered akin to researching virginity at a whorehouse. Or worse, looking for internet entities via Orwoogle. Do not engage. You have better options for fact-finding.

Something that ticks me off endlessly is precisely that search engine slant - the fact that Hoaxipedia is invariably given the top slots on any search on any given search engine, most disgustingly by search engines which claim to be "conservative" alternatives to the Google Borg and other far-Left-slanted search sites. As far as I'm concerned, Hoaxipedia entries are mandatory skip-over material, and search engines which claim to be impartial but still push that site's crap to the top of every results-list, are frauds.
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I usually like to do a deeper dive for my info. I am never quite trusting in Wikipedia, and it drive me nuts when someone quotes them. If you get there via Google, you better be ready to question accuracy. now Firefox is all Google, so I just had to put it on a leash this week. Obama gave the Internet to the UN as a final act, they put Chinese in charge of it. It had to come to this.

We hear a lot of blabber about conspiracy theories from the left, MSM and democrats including the DOJ and other 3 letter agencies but we never hear a peep when a conspiracy theory is proven to be correct. The more blabber I hear on a subject from these yahoos, the more I am inclined to believe what they are telling me is false.

Safest bet: Trust nothing in wiki.

Easy-Peasy. If Snopes says it's true, you know it's a lie. If Snopes says it's a lie, you you can take it to the bank it's true.
Like so much of media, be it printed, broadcast or online, the C.S.'s at the c i a are driving the narrative.
At this point in our societies continual degradation into the cesspool of humanity, a turning point is being (or has been) reached: Trust no-one. The Media's track record of lies and deceit is complete.
If you don't question everything you hear and see, you are a fool.
"Believe Nothing You Hear, and Only One Half That You See" Edgar Allen Poe, 1845.

I do indeed. Looked high and low for Libertarian outlets. This is a good one.

Thank you been watching for a few years actually now it seems so much to say, you know how that goes: ))

Welcome.