Posted on 02/26/2008 8:10:13 AM PST by bs9021
State Department Launches TV Studio
by: Emmanuel Opati, February 26, 2008
Given the increasing negative perception of the world towards the United States, the Department of State has created a new Television Studio to improve America’s image...
....Ms. Colleen Graffy, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Diplomacy, Europe and Eurasia at the U.S. Department of State, said, “we have invigorated our public diplomacy by fusing policy and public diplomacy and creating new tools by which to effectively operate in these two short-term/long-term frameworks.”
This comes amidst concerns that positive views of United States have been declining in the last six years giving rise to anti-American sentiments around the world. According to Pew Research, favorable attitudes toward the U.S. declined in Germany, from 78% in 2000 to 3% currently. Similarly, positive views of the U.S. held by 9% in Turkey and 15% in Pakistan, with similar trends in France and Spain...
Michael Doran, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Support to Public Diplomacy at the Department of Defense said that “if you look at the successes that we have had in Iraq, success there wasn’t really a success of arms, it was a success of enlightened understanding of the challenge in Iraq.”
He said that because the war was people-centric, it was a perception and information war and “the first goal was to provide security to the population.” He added that the lesson from that is that “we need to counter Al-Qaeda’s claim that we are at war with Islam and we need to project the best side of United States to the global audience.” “The second thing we need to do is to attack Al-Qaeda’s brand,” he said. “We need to make the world public aware of Al-Qaeda’s intimidation and the intolerance,” he added.
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It will probably get more air time over here than where it was intended to target...
Just another C-SPAN propaganda channel...
George Orwell sure did have a lot of this stuff right on the money...
We’ve always been friends with Eastasia, and always at war with Eurasia.
Ping to my 4.
Another f*#&@!g waste of our $$$. And why, in God’s green Earth does the U.S. gov’t need a propaganda channel?
Foggy Bottom Channel?..............
If our standing in the world has slipped to new lows these people are the ones directly responsible. Now they want their own TV channel? The have done enough damage already. Can you imagine the “hate America” lineup?
I know how these people think, they will take the approach of self-deprecation in the hope that they will love us. Everything they do has exactly the opposite intended outcome.
TV works. It has been used for anti American propaganda for 50 years.
This is why State waited until now to start the program, you wouldn’t want the “image” of the USA to look good with GWB in office would you?
There will be a full time 24/7 365 day a year media campaign to make the new POUS look like a king if it is a DEM.
We needed this 6 years ago but GWB just wanted to get along.
The only problem State had 6 years ago is they could not find anything good to say about the USA, now with “HOPE” on the way it’s time to fire up the propaganda machine.
Spend a $10 billion to counter Islamist and leftist propaganda in order to avoid another war or $500 billion on another war. It's your money.
Improve image with the world or just the America people?
LOL! Better lame than never...
Da!
FBC...
Has a familiar ring to it...;-)
We report, WE decide...
FBC, a subsidiary of FUBAR Corp, .............
Another one? What happened to Al Hura?
Uhm... because the sky's blue in my world? Because I don't live in my own zip code?
All examples of American propaganda are at least main stream liberal by our standards (meaning rabid conservative by foreign standards.). A leftist/Islamist channel would have a lifespan of of a gnat.
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