" Airwaves Off-Limits to New Propaganda Tsar Karen Hughes"

NEW YORK -- One of the most experienced broadcast experts in the United States believes that Karen Hughes -- the high-profile confidante of Pres. George W. Bush nominated to help the State Department do a major makeover of U.S. public diplomacy -- may not be able to lay a glove on one of its key programmes: international broadcasting..

Alvin Snyder, Centre on Public Diplomacy
Alvin Snyder, a senior fellow at the University of Southern California's Centre on Public Diplomacy, says international broadcasting channels -- ”one of the basic tools in the U.S. public diplomacy arsenal” -- are protected by a ”firewall” that makes them off-limits to people from the State Department, or anywhere else.

”The wall is policed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a government-funded but independent corporation governed by eight private-sector politically appointed members -- four Republicans and four Democrats,” Snyder told IPS. ”The secretary of state is the ninth member of the BBG in case there's a tie vote.”

”The purpose of the firewall is to keep broadcast channels independent from government influence,” Snyder says, ”and that government would certainly include the State Department.”

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Peace.

The invisible wall between foerign policy and actions and domestic ones has been effectively torn down.

They obviously need some balance in their broadcasting. :sarcasm:

...Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels job

it's a do nothing job for a loyal bush lackey, kind of like Laura'a war on street crime and her African initiative. It's all bullshit.

Karen Huge needed to get back on the government payroll so they created this position for her.

No one is going to believe the bush White House propaganda any more so what's the purpose? :shrug:

I thou gt Karen wanted to spend more time with her family? :eyes: Did they piss her off or something? :shrug:

:D Like she was always on the payroll but with a reduced salary. Our taxpayer dollars salary, btw...

is about as good as they could do. The official position they gave her is laughable- particularly in an administration with such a "fuck you" attitude to the world community.

breaker...politically appointed "private sector" members. :wow:

:rofl: