[Peace-discuss] FW: U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Characterizes "Alternative Media as Terror"

[David Johnson]

U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Characterizes "Alternative Media
as Terror"


BBG associated with CIA white propaganda efforts


By Kurt Nimmo <http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/kurt-nimmo> 

Global Research, January 30, 2015

Infowars
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nors-characterizes-alternative-media-as-terror/>  1 February 2015

http://www.globalresearch.ca/critics-push-back-after-broadcasting-board-of-g
overnors-characterizes-alternative-media-as-terror/5428363

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Bolivian President Evo Morales weighed in on the controversy over remarks
made earlier this month by Andrew Lack, the new chief executive of the
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).

The BBG is noteworthy for its connection to the CIA's effort to control
media and dispense white propaganda. The United States government agency
controls the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Marti
and TV Marti. CIA control of these organizations is well documented.

BBG is also associated with the United States Information Agency and the
National Endowment for Democracy. "A lot of what we do today was done
covertly 25 years ago by the CIA," Allen Weinstein
<http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/National%20EndowmentDemo.html> , who
helped draft the legislation establishing NED, said in 1991.
"When the media turns into the voice of the people, especially in the voice
of revolutionaries, there are those people and the media, who will judge
them and falsify the truth," Morales told RT
<http://sputniknews.com/latam/20150130/1017553418.html#ixzz3QJBKaHPv> , the
Russian state-funded cable and satellite television channel. "This media is
the voice of the developing countries, the voice of the peoples of the
world, and it deserves our admiration."
During an interview with The New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/us/broadcasting-board-of-governors-names-
chief-executive.html?_r=1> , Lack said it is the job of the BBG to confront
news organizations not under the control of the U.S. government.
"We are facing a number of challenges from entities like Russia Today which
is out there pushing a point of view, the Islamic State in the Middle East
and groups like Boko Haram, " said Lack, the former president of NBC News.
"But I firmly believe that this agency has a role to play in facing those
challenges."
Lack's comments were so transparently over the top, even the State
Department felt obliged to distance itself from them:
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura
<http://rt.com/news/227691-morales-rt-voice-people/>  told RT Lack and the
BBG are calling alternative media to be censored.
"There should be no Big Brother telling us what we can or cannot see,"
Ventura said. "If someone desires to watch RT TV and takes the opinion they
don't like, well then they merely don't have to put it to that station."
Michael Krieger, the editor of Liberty Blitzkrieg, points out that RT is
popular in the United States and thus a challenge because Americans are fed
up with news coverage offered by the corporate media.
"RT's success was not because the Russian state poured so much time and
money into the network,"Krieger writes
<http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/01/29/former-nbc-and-bloomberg-executive-
and-head-of-the-u-s-broadcasting-board-of-america-compares-rt-to-terrorist-g
roups/> . "It's success was a direct result of the U.S. mainstream media
being so childish and useless. By spewing a mind-numbing amount of inane
celebrity gossip, sports drama and cartoonish American propaganda, a massive
audience yearning for a different perspective was already present and
underserved. RT merely came along and filled that void."

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