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Broadcasting Board of Governors

Blind Ambition

Alex Belida | Posted 04.16.2012 | Media
Read More: Broadcasting, News Agencies, News, Broadcasting Board of Governors, Voice of America, Walter Isaacson, Media News
Alex Belida

When the Broadcasting Board of Governors unveiled a new Strategic Plan, it set an ambitious goal: "To become the world's leading international news agency by 2016." But based on its latest budget proposal, global news organizations like Reuters and AP have little to fear.

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Lugar Report Honsestly Evaluates U.S. International Broadcasting

Philip Seib | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Lugar, Iran, Foldi, China, Al Jazeera, Broadcasting Board of Governors, Al Hurra, Voice of America, World News
Philip Seib

Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), the ranking Republican member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has done something remarkable: issued an...

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The Perino Conundrum: PR's Expert Inexperts

Martin Luz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Heck of a Job, Plouffe Obama, Burson-Marsteller, Ari Fleischer, Dana Perino, Mark Penn, Edelman PR, Pr, Flacks, David Plouffe, Edelman, Talking Points, T Mobile, Waggener Edstrom, Michael Smerconish, Starbucks, Spin, Broadcasting Board of Governors, Cuba, Bay of Pigs, Politics News
Martin Luz

Sometimes a story just sticks with you. Such is the crazy and amusing story of Dana Perino - Bush's White House House Press Secretary - who admitted she had no idea what the Cuban Missile Crisis was.

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Dana Perino Nominated By Obama To Broadcasting Board Of Governors

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Obama Nominates Dana Perino, Broadcasting Board of Governors, Obama Dana Perino, Dana Perino Broadcasting Board of Governors, Dana Perino Bbg, Obama Perino Nomination, Dana Perino, Obama Perino, Politics News

President Obama has nominated Dana Perino, George W. Bush's last press secretary and a frequent critic of the new administration, to a board overseein...

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Critics Say U.S. Radio Program for Darfur Goes Soft on Sudan

Sheri Fink | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Humanitarian Aid, Frank Wolf, Radio, Darfur, Radio Afia Darfur, Alhurra, Sudan, Middle East Broadcasting Network, Broadcasting Board of Governors, World News
Sheri Fink

Funded by the U.S. State Department, Radio Afia Darfur, a half-hour shortwave radio program, is beamed three times a day into war-torn Darfur, Sudan, and refugee-packed eastern Chad.

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Alhurra TV: Uncle Sam's Boondoggle

Nancy Snow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Broadcasting, Dumb Power, Propaganda, Alhurra, Government Propaganda, Soft Power, Public Diplomacy, Broadcasting Board of Governors, Foreign Policy, Broadcast TV, Bbg, Media News
Nancy Snow

I've been sifting through several studies of Alhurra Television that dropped like a "cascade of candor," to paraphrase David Frost's hoped for outcom...

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Media Change We Can Believe In

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Politics, Mccain, Obama, Media, Pbs, Van Jones, Rovian Political Partisanship, Media Deregulation, Cpb, Bush Administration Media, Shock Jocks, Npr, Bush Administration, Media Consolidation, Fcc, Netroots, Radio Hate Speech, Media Politics, Broadcasting Board of Governors, Media News
Rory O'Connor

The Bush Administration's default approach toward journalists has been to use them when necessary and bypass them when not.

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