From Krim: ""Partly to influence the debates taking place among Muslim-American youth, in July 2013, Congress amended the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act, long known as the 'anti-propaganda law.' The Smith-Mundt Act was passed at a time when Congress suspected that the State Department was staffed with Communists, and prohibited websites and media outlets financed by the U.S. government—like the Arabic-language TV channel Al-Hurra—from broadcasting at home to prevent the government from aiming propaganda at its own citizens. The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act repealed this prohibition, allowing government information produced for foreign audiences to be disseminated within the United States; thus programming produced by Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, and other entities controlled by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) can now be carried by local radio stations."
This was from an article you'd posted earlier. What's odd is that Salon has now truncated more than half of it and the above is now missing from their site. I had to do a bit of digging to find the original."
This was from an article you'd posted earlier. What's odd is that Salon has now truncated more than half of it and the above is now missing from their site. I had to do a bit of digging to find the original."
