A classic example of the private sector “countering propaganda.”
The New York Times headline (4/15/15) paints a dire picture:
Turmoil at Voice of America Is Seen as Hurting US Ability to Counter Propaganda
But wait a second—isn’t Voice of America itself a propaganda outlet? Not in the New York Times stylebook, apparently. The piece, by Ron Nixon, describes VOA as “the government agency that is charged with presenting America’s viewpoint to the world.” Later on, the Times refers to what it calls “America’s public diplomacy.”
The US’s enemies, on the other hand, have “sophisticated propaganda machines that have expanded the influence of countries like China and Russia and terrorist groups like the Islamic State.” The difference between “propaganda machines” and “public diplomacy” is never explained in the article, but the former appears to be what “they” do while the latter is what “we” do.
The only source quoted in the article who’s not directly connected to the government is Glen Howard, president of the Jamestown Foundation, described as “a Washington think tank.” (“We are getting our butts kicked…. Countries like Russia are running circles around us,” Howard says.) Not mentioned is the fact that Jamestown was founded with the help of then–CIA Director William Casey to provide financial support for the Agency’s spies (Washington Post, 1/10/05).
The article reports that since the Cold War, which it helped win by “providing unfiltered news to dissidents and countering communist propaganda in the Soviet Union and Soviet-backed countries,” VOA has been “pulled between providing credible news and supporting American policy.” Congressional Republicans want to
revise the Voice of America’s charter to state explicitly that the agency has a role in supporting American “public diplomacy” and countering propaganda from other countries.
In other words, they’re insisting that VOA make its news more propagandistic. And the New York Times refers consistently to this goal throughout the article as “countering propaganda.”
When you have arguably the US’s most prestigious for-profit media outlet describing government propaganda as “efforts to counter propaganda,” it’s pretty clear that the nation’s demand for propaganda is going to be met—whether by the public or the private sector.
Excellent article, as usual. It actually adds to a piece I wrote recently about the US government funding of foreign media. When the money comes from Russia, it is called “state-controlled media”, but when it comes from the US it is called “independent media”… even if the recipient country, e.g. Iraq, has been illegally invaded and occupied by the US right before the funds were given. Go figure…
http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-propaganda-101-illegally-invade-countries-fund-the-media-call-it-independent/5437617
What do you call propaganda about propaganda?
All the news that’s printed to fit
Great piece, and great comments too. Very useful for understanding the difference between ‘propaganda’ and ‘public diplomacy’ and between ‘state-controlled media’ and ‘independent media’.
@Yoram Gat
I’m not sure if the real problem is “state controlled media”. I think the problem we have under capitalism is a media controlled state – or a state which is itself the exclusive property of the same class which have monopoly control of the media .Certainly privately owned corporate media have not been much better than propaganda when dealing with the US backed war in the Ukraine, or Russia and China, or US militarism in general
New York Times, you’re such a good little lapdog. Yes you are, yes you are.
Isn’t this the same NYT that was informed of the government’s mass surveIllance program in 2005 and decided to keep mum and strike a deal with the government? In addition, they handed over the names of the 6 whistleblowers to the government, who were then harassed by the FBI on national security grounds. It took many years later when another whistleblower by the name of Ed Snowden came forward to reveal the government’s mass surveillance program. He learned what happened to the whistleblowers and decided to avoid the US media and went to the Guardian instead.
If you want to read US controlled propaganda just checkout News Corp, Bloomberg or Business Insider. You can read all the Russophobia and Sinophobia propaganda. As for ISIS, most of the major US media don’t even care to report about them. They’re more concerned about bashing Russia or China.
Feel free to read the political news on our Yahoo and compare it with the political news on uk.yahoo, au.yahoo and sg.yahoo. Then you’ll realize there’s different US propaganda for different parts of the world.
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