Was NOT RFE specifically designed initially to deliver truth otherwise unavailable to the captives behind the Iron Curtain, therefore a tool of the Cold War?
That makes it a different circumstance than what Opinionated Blowhard is talking about.
I agree with O.B. completely.
I am all for RFE. My point is our government does pay for radio programs. Do we just support those whose point of view we agree with? Isn’t that what we complain about? What about those who have a different point of view than RFE?
That’s right. I’m all for radio broadcasts into enemy countries to undermine them. That is just another defense tool. The issue is the government broadcasting propaganda to us to control how news is presented to its own citizens. Now we know its a firing offense to tell people that a reporter has fears about seeing people in Muslim garb on airplanes.
I seem to remember Clarence Page saying that he felt nervous when he saw young black men in street clothes following him at night and that he breathed a sigh of relief if he found out they where white. I wonder what Clarence will say about this.