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Dana Perino Nominated By Obama To Broadcasting Board Of Governors

Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

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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 03.05.2009 | World

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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 01.12.2009 | Media

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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 12.05.2008 | Media

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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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