Did You Know?

[KNN]

That in 2012 the Obama Admin repealed the ban on propaganda in the media?

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 did just that. With a swift stroke of the pen, our country was instantly transported back in time to a 1950’s Soviet-esque era.

And people wonder why our media has become such a shit hole.

 

[occupied]

Your link says it died in committee without ever being voted on.

 

[Moonglow]

That in 2012 the Obama Admin repealed the ban on propaganda in the media?

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 did just that. With a swift stroke of the pen, our country was instantly transported back in time to a 1950’s Soviet-esque era.

And people wonder why our media has become such a shit hole.

Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 - Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the Secretary of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide for the preparation and dissemination of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, including about its people, its history, and the federal government's policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers and instructors. (Under current law such authority is restricted to information disseminated abroad, with a limited domestic exception.)


How in the hell does this have anything to do with a ban on propaganda?

 

[KNN]

They never updated it, In 2013 it was put in the National Defense Authorization Act and was enacted in July 2013

 

[KNN]

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans

For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences.

foreignpolicy.com

 

[sparky]

so now propaganda is propaganda?

~S~

 

[rightwinger]

Your link says it died in committee without ever being voted on.

Shhh…It is his first thread
Let him spread his lies

 

[BULLDOG]

Shhh…It is his first thread
Let him spread his lies

He's got a long way to go before he catches up with the other MAGA crazies, but it is a fine start.

 

[okfine]

Didn't Trump try to end RFA and RFE?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

They never updated it, In 2013 it was put in the National Defense Authorization Act and was enacted in July 2013

How many Repubs voted in favor of it?