{"id":12987,"date":"2015-04-15T11:13:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12987"},"modified":"2015-04-15T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:27:07","slug":"ed-royce-to-champion-new-approach-to-us-international-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/ed-royce-to-champion-new-approach-to-us-international-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Royce to champion &#8220;new approach&#8221; to US international broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12988\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EdRoyce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12988\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12988\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EdRoyce-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"US Representative, Ed Royce\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EdRoyce-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EdRoyce.jpg 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Representative, Ed Royce<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Michael, for sharing a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/countering-putins-information-weapons-of-war-1429052323\" target=\"_blank\">this opinion piece in the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> by Ed Royce (R), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a short clip from the piece:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Vladimir Putin has a secret army. It\u2019s an army of thousands of \u201ctrolls,\u201d TV anchors and others who work day and night spreading anti-American propaganda on the Internet, airwaves and newspapers throughout Russia and the world. Mr. Putin uses these misinformation warriors to destabilize his neighbors and control parts of Ukraine. This force may be more dangerous than any military, because no artillery can stop their lies from spreading and undermining U.S. security interests in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Neither can the U.S. international broadcasting services that performed such a valuable service during the Cold War. They have withered until they are no longer capable of meeting today\u2019s challenges. Until this changes, Russia\u2019s president and his propaganda will flourish.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]From its inception, the BBG has drawn criticism from right, left and center. A part-time board that is supposed to oversee and spend $740 million a year, it has a fundamentally flawed structure. A 2013 Inspector General report for the State Department found the BBG to be dysfunctional. The same year, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the BBG as \u201cpractically defunct.\u201d No wonder the agency isn\u2019t coming close to competing with Mr. Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Righting this ship must be an urgent foreign-policy priority. I will soon introduce bipartisan legislation to do just that. The bill would charge one U.S. broadcasting organization (VOA) with reporting U.S. policy and other global news, and another, including RFE\/RL and similar services, to act as the free press in repressive societies like Russia. Each organization will have its own CEO and its own board, with accountability that is clear to all[&#8230;]&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/countering-putins-information-weapons-of-war-1429052323\" target=\"_blank\">Read Ed Royce&#8217;s full Op Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Dan Robinson also points out <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/16\/us\/signs-of-turmoil-seen-for-voice-of-america.html?referrer\" target=\"_blank\">this piece, by Ron Nixon, published in the NY Times.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Michael, for sharing a link to this opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by Ed Royce (R), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Here is a short clip from the piece: &#8220;Vladimir Putin has a secret army. It\u2019s an army of thousands of \u201ctrolls,\u201d TV anchors and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,56,960,3,43],"tags":[406,936,3775,3776],"class_list":["post-12987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbg","tag-broadcasting-board-of-governors","tag-ed-royce","tag-wall-street-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3nt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28359,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/go-after-north-korea-with-sanctions-and-short-wave-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":12987,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Go after North Korea with sanctions and short-wave radio&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"September 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Yahoo News) Key GOP Lawmaker:\u00a0Go after North Korea with sanctions and short-wave radio WASHINGTON \u2014 House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R.-Calif., called Wednesday for tough new sanctions on Chinese banks that do business with North Korea. 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