Washington Wants Its Big Lying Machine Revved Up
More money for warmongering
By Stephen Lendman
April 14, 2015 "ICH"
- Its annual three-fourths of a billion dollars spent isn't enough. It's for
managed news disinformation rubbish aired by:● Voice of
America;
● Radio Free Asia;
● Radio and TV Marti aimed at Cuba; and
● Middle East Broadcasting Networks.
Plus enormous sums spent by supportive corporate media, as
well as so-called public (be damned) broadcasting and radio blasting out Big
Lies, fake news, and other grand deceptions instead of what everyone deserves.
Reuters previewed a new report claiming
America is losing the information war to Russia - written by two former US
propagandists, S. Enders Wimbush and Elizabeth Portale.
They along with 30 foreign policy/diplomacy professionals
polled want America's Big Lying Machine revved up.
They want it top-to-bottom overhauled. "US international
communications strategy should be rebuilt from the ground up," their report
says.
"(A)nti-US messaging forment(s) an information war (it's)
winning."
It claims "US international broadcasting is challenged to keep
pace with competitors and changes in the media landscape."
Experts paid to lie claim Russia out-guns America - by
spreading hard truths on issues mattering most.
RT television reaches US viewers. It spends less than a third
annually what Washington's Big Lying Machine budgets.
Its audience grows because Americans and others are hungry for
real news, information and analysis.
They're sick and tired of misinformation rubbish proliferated
instead. They're tuning out.
They're choosing reliable alternative sources everyone should
follow exclusively - many available online in print or in audio and video form.
Growing numbers of people want hard truths not available
through traditional sources. For sure not from America's Big Lying Machine.
Report co-author Wimbush called Ukrainian crisis conditions
"the most serious challenge US international broadcasting has faced since the
fall of the Soviet Union."
Hard truths are increasingly giving US proliferated Big Lies a
run for their money.
House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Ed Royce (R. CA)
complained about Russian English language media beating America's.
US "international broadcasting is floundering. It's
unacceptable," he said.
He sponsored legislation aimed at restructuring the US
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).
Former CEO Andrew Lack quit after six weeks on the job. From
1993 - 2001, he was NBC president. He's returning to head its news operation.
Deputy BBG International Broadcasting Bureau director, Jeff
Trimble, said 25 new (propaganda) programs were created or expanded in the past
year - mostly Russian language ones.
He wants more money for proliferating more Big Lies. Last
month, John Kerry lied to Congress on what RT television spends.
He claimed "more than $500 million annually to mislead
audiences, sow divisions, and push conspirac(ies)."
RT's current annual budget is $225 million. It's spent
reporting hard truths - ones driving Kerry and other US war criminals nuts.
He wants Congress appropriating $639 million for US
state-sponsored propaganda.
"(T)o help our friends in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova as
they seek to strengthen their democracies, withstand pressure from Russia, and
to integrate more closely into Europe," he claimed.
The State Department wants over $2 billion for so-called
"democracy, human rights, and governance programs" - propaganda rubbish by any
other name.
Wimbush and Portale ludicrously claim private media aren't
always in lockstep with US foreign policy objectives.
They regurgitate them ad nauseam. They blast out the same Big
Lies daily.
BBG wants more money for what it ludicrously calls "credible
journalism and information at scale in order to provide Russian language
speakers with a fair and balanced picture of the world."
They want to out-shout truth-tellers with Big Lies Russian
news consumers reject.
They're not stupid. They're not over-entertained and
under-or-misinformed like Americans.
They don't buy Big Lies increasing numbers of US news
consumers now reject.
America's Big Lying Machine has to work harder to blast out
greater amounts of rubbish increasingly not working.
People want real information - hard truths America's Big Lying
Machine buries.
Experts Wimbush/Potale polled expect "no reform…likely to go
far enough" to fix what increasing numbers of news consumers reject.
They want real information and analysis on issues mattering
most.
They want what America's public and private Big Lying Machine
systematically bury.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at
lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint
in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks World War III".
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
Visit his blog site at
sjlendman.blogspot.com.