Robert McChesney on Hillary Clinton's Critique of US/Foreign Media & Cuts to US Public Broadcasting

Run time: 14:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hwkgN_SSZQ   Posted on YouTube: March 07, 2011 By YouTube Member: mediagrrl9 Views on YouTube: 302   Posted on DU: March 08, 2011 By DU Member: democracy1st Views on DU: 565

 
"The United States is in an information war and we are losing that war," said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week as she praised Al Jazeera's dedication to "real news." To win the war, Clinton called for expanding U.S. propaganda TV and radio broadcasts overseas. At the same time, public broadcasting and community media are under attack in the United States. Last month, the House voted to eliminate all financing for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by the year 2013. Democracy Now! interview Robert McChesney, co-founder of Free Press, and broadcasts highlights from Amy Goodman's three-day "Don't Ice Out Public Media" tour in Colorado.

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Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) told more than 2,000 bloggers and organizers attending the Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas on July 24, 2010, that our media system is at risk everywhere we turn - from our free speech online to the growing power of companies who own a massive number of media outlets.

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