U.S. to Pay 'Selected' Foreign Journalists to Cover State Dept.

[Steve Peacock]

U.S. to Pay 'Selected' Foreign Journalists to Cover State Dept.
By Steve Peacock, U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor (June 12, 2012)

U.S. taxpayers soon will pay for hotel rooms, flights, and even the TV production costs of foreign journalists covering the Department of State. The purported goal of the endeavor is to communicate and promote U.S. policies and "American values."

The new project comes at a time when State separately is attempting to buy, produce, and disseminate its own media broadcasts, establishing a paid 24/7 "news" service with contractor assistance (see Obama Assembling de facto Propaganda Ministry; U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor, May 6, 2012).

The department through the new foreign media initiative will hire a contractor to provide "logistical, administrative and financial services" to journalists "selected" to travel to the U.S. on two-week "TV Co-ops, " according to a Request for Proposals that the Monitor located via routine database research.

Continued at U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor.

 

[tod evans]

Reminiscent of Russia during WW1 & 2.........

Oh wait.........Our government pushed propaganda then too..

Continuing with status-quo.

 

[pcosmar]

Operation Mockingbird

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http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/cia_press.html

After Colby left the Agency on January 28th, 1976, and was succeeded by George Bush, the CIA announced a new policy: “Effective immediately, the CIA will not enter into any paid or contractual relationship with any full‑time or part‑time news correspondent accredited by any U.S. news service, newspaper, periodical, radio or television network or station” At the time of the announcement, the Agency acknowledged that the policy would result in termination of less than half of the relationships with the 50 U.S. journalists it said were still affiliated with the Agency. The text of the announcement noted that the CIA would continue to “welcome” the voluntary, unpaid cooperation of journalists. Thus, many relationships were permitted to remain intact.

 

[paulbot24]

"...to communicate and promote U.S. policies and "American values." Doesn't China own most of America's values now? Oh boy.....

 

[Lishy]

Well considering what they're doing right now IS technically what they call "American values", I guess it is okay that China also pay journalists for propaganda? :S

 

[paulbot24]

Well said. "That spade sir? Umm, well it's a spade....sir." lol

 

[Romulus]

Wow.. I thought this was the Onion for a second.