Telesur is now the "enemy" ...

... and so are RT (Russia Today), Press TV of Iran, and coming soon -- China TV. Isaacson is a former honcho at CNN and TIME magazine, and as the video below will show, a lying sack of crappola and possibly an idiot in regards to modern, worldwide foreign communications networks.

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The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has a new chairman in Walter Isaacson, and the former CNN and Time magazine chief is calling for even more money for the BBG to combat the public diplomacy efforts of America's "enemies," which he identifies as Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and China.

The BBG, which oversees a $700 million annual budget to run such organizations as the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Free Asia, funds breakthrough reporting in some of the most dangerous parts of the world, but at the same time is facing increased competition from other governments' forays into international broadcasting.

Isaacson said that other countries are stepping up their international broadcasting efforts and that the Congress must allow the U.S. government to do the same.

"We can't allow ourselves to be out-communicated by our enemies," he said. "You've got Russia Today, Iran's Press TV, Venezuela's TeleSUR, and of course, China is launching an international broadcasting 24-hour news channel with correspondents around the world reportedly set aside six to ten billion -- we've to go to Capitol Hill with that number -- to expand their overseas media operations."

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http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/10/05/new_bbg_chief_wants_more_money_to_combat_enemies_such_as_china_and_russia


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Apparently realizing that his remarks were going to hit the fan in Russia and China, he backtracked as fast as he could, saying he was talking about Afghanistan -- not Russia or China. (As if Afghanistan has a world-wide TV service.)

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UPDATE: Isaacson e-mails in to The Cable to apologize for the remark, while saying that the "enemies" he was referring to were in Afghanistan, not the several countries he mentioned.

"I of course did not mean to refer to, nor do I consider, that Russia, China, and the other countries or news services are enemies of the U.S., and I'm sorry if I gave that impression," he said.


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Here is a very good video from RT with Andrés Izarra, the president of Telesur. It's in English and very worthy of watching. (About 10 minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUwX9-R0Y4Q

so they demand more welfare from U.S. taxpayers to intensity "Voice of America" and other state propaganda horns, on top of the "Big Lies" of CNN, Faux New, ABC-NBC-CBS, the Associated Pukes, the New York Slimes, the Miami Hairball, the Wall Street Urinal and all the rest.

:rofl:

We really need to cut these "welfare Queens" off the Big Tit!

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By the way, Donald Rumsfeld lays out their Suckling strategy in an op-ed entitled, "The Smart Way to Defeat Tyrants like Chavez," in the Washington Psst, way back in 12/1/07. He even calls for U.S. liars to hit the Internets Big Time with Big Lies straight off the Big Tit ticker machine.

Obama/Clinton are just carrying out his program.

(It's the same op-ed in which, on the very weekend that Hugo Chavez began a series of six FARC hostage releases that Alvaro Uribe of Colombia had asked him to negotiate, Rumsfeld states that Chavez's help with hostage releases is "not welcome in Colombia." The Colombian military then sent rocket fire at the location of the first two hostages as they were on route to their freedom, driving them back on a 20 mile hike into the jungle. Chavez got them and four others out by a different route, later--not for lack of effort by Rumsfeld to get them killed. That's the "smart way" to defeat "tyrants like Chavez"--unmitigated treachery and murder, added to psychopathic lying.)

WTF happened to him? Has he always been a whore?

He clearly called countries the "enemy," and yet he attempted to intimidate Priya, implying she has lax standards and didn't research what he said properly. She researched, all right. She got his number perfectly.

Yeah, Walter, stagger off to the bar and have a few and forget all about it. You're a liar, and people know it. The only ones who'd defend you are of course Republicans.

We're all finding out who "the enemy" is these days.

Loved seeing Andres Izarra. What a guy. He stood up to his tv network during the coup, and walked away, dropped everything and quit on principle. He was working at RCTV when the coup was hatched, and he knows what he was told to do, and told them where to stick that job on his way out.

I just looked and saw he also had worked for CNN en Espanol, earlier, so he has a very clear idea of how US TV networks work, as well.

He has wonderful command of the language. Super duper!

Thank you, rabs. That was a real treat, and I hope Izarra's going to live and prosper a long, long time as Isaacs sinks below the horizon, taking along the others of his ilk. Let's hope there's going to be a revolution in communications the empty, worthless, parasitic fascists can't control.

follow his bosses' orders, as to their collusion in the coup attempt--and walked away from his job! That is a REAL JOURNALIST! What amazing courage!

I really admire his calmness in this interview. If it had been me, I think I would have been spitting nails.

both come under the purview of this guy now. It would not be surprising if Isaacson pours millions more of U.S. taxpayers bucks into those two dark holes.

And they are dark holes.

The only reason they're still broadcasting is because the Cuban interests in this country will fight until their dying breath to keep anyone from shutting them down, just as they did to Colorado Democratic Representative David Skaggs years ago when he told Congress what a spectacular waste of time TV Marti is, and Lincoln Diaz-Balart destroyed his career before he could see it through.

This is another American bureaucrat trying to get money to spend on something stupid. Telesur is not watched by anybody anyway, it lacks the quality soap operas it needs to be popular in a Latin American audience.

If Venezuela wants to have some impact, then they should finance a film industry, to have their own films made. And they should let the films be made to criticize Venezuela and what it does. This would show they are not afraid of being criticized. And these should be in Spanish, and not for the US audience, like that stupid Oliver Stone film, which is clearly meant for north americans, and is light weight, it means nothing to people elsewhere.

If they want to do some damage to the enemies of humanity who lurk in the USA, then they can finance movies about Fox News and the right wing propaganda machine in the USA, and that can be used for a USA audience. Or if they want to point out the evils of the Iraq war and other wars the USA starts, they can pay a little bit of money for independents to film quality films about these wars, without interfering.

This is a better use of the money that this Telesur, which is just another show nobody watches.

lol

Anything done with government funds is probably biased and mere government propaganda. What did they report about the Chavez defeat in the popular vote in Venezuela?

:eyes:

Like trying to follow a thread with ignore on.