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U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans
Foreign Policy ^ | .July 14 2021 | John Hudson

Posted on 07/16/2021 7:28:25 AM PDT by euram

For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government’s mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. So what just happened?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 4minutemen; biden; fourminutemen; propaganda

1 posted on 07/16/2021 7:28:25 AM PDT by euram
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To: euram

Propaganda is what they do.


2 posted on 07/16/2021 7:31:09 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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To: euram

Free, informed societies do not modulate voices, but considering the outright ban on “misinformation” instituted by big tech, a race to make race a point of discussion in our schools, and the government’s stated desire to monitor text messages for COVID misinformation, this is yet another sign that we are being force-fed Communism. Straw, meet camel? Anyone?


3 posted on 07/16/2021 7:32:04 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: euram

Americans are long past believing ANYTHING that has even the remotest affiliation with the ‘US Government’. THEIR brand is ca ca!


4 posted on 07/16/2021 7:33:40 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: euram

Welcome to the V.O.S. “Voice of Subversion”


5 posted on 07/16/2021 7:33:48 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: euram

So they have now acknowledged the Ministry of Propaganda.


6 posted on 07/16/2021 7:38:31 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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7 posted on 07/16/2021 7:46:28 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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“NEW - Biden Regime threatens that any refugee from Cuba fleeing the communist regime and trying to reach the U.S. will be turned away.”

https://t.me/DrainTheSwampNews/2582

Silly me, I thought Cuban refugees were allowed to come here to “flee the communist regime”.


8 posted on 07/16/2021 8:03:43 AM PDT by Darnright (We live in interesting times)
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To: euram
For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government’s mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences...

How did the government get around this since Operation Mockingbird was put in place and flourished, from the mid 1950's to the present day?

One way that comes to mind: they did/do not view the American people as sovereign, and thus not an audience their propaganda need be shielded from.

9 posted on 07/16/2021 8:12:40 AM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both)
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How did they get around it? Easy, they just ignored it. It was also illegal for them to give unwitting people LSD, run guns to the cartels, smuggle cocaine into Arkansas, spy on Trump, et.

The intelligence community merely ignores laws they find inconvenient.


10 posted on 07/16/2021 8:45:16 AM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: euram

NPR


11 posted on 07/16/2021 9:03:33 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: euram

Democrats and Putinistas are so proud.


12 posted on 07/16/2021 2:08:14 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Is this what was called “Operation Mockingbird” back in the day?


13 posted on 07/17/2021 1:08:24 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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