[P2P-F] "Hillary Clinton declares international information war" - article + video

Sat Mar 5 04:52:31 CET 2011

added a tag to major ( new ? ) internationally oriented news broadcasters
tending to potentially "outcommunicating" the US...

http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/outcommunication

<http://www.delicious.com/deliciousdante/outcommunication>following Hillary
Clinton's  http://rt.com/news/information-war-media-us/

* <http://rt.com/news/information-war-media-us/>Did Clinton's "We are
loosing the information war" get broadcasted on american news ?*

I do not yet find info from CNN or other american News Broadcasters about
it,
when googling "CNN clinton loosing information war"...

On "Colbert Report" ?

I did find the info on "Democracy Now" facebook page...

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> thanks Dante!
>
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> From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:46 PM
> Subject: [P2P-F] "Hillary Clinton declares international information war" -
> article + video
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> http://rt.com/news/information-war-media-us/
>
> <http://rt.com/news/information-war-media-us/>excerpt :
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> The US is losing the global information war, Secretary of State Hillary
> Clinton declared while appearing before a congressional committee to ask for
> extra funds to spread US propaganda through new media.
> *
>
> Clinton said existing private channels are not good enough to handle the
> job, naming as rivals Al Jazeera, China's CCTV and RT – which she watches,
> she added.
>
> Clinton was defending her department’s budget in front of the House’s
> Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday.
>
> Clinton said the US should step up its propaganda effort and get back “in
> the game” of doing “what we do best.”
>
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>  link to
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>  18Mb
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>  Video Download :
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> http://rt.com/files/news/information-war-media-us/media-gayane-live-02.flv?download=1
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> Full Copy/Pasted Article :
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> http://rt.com/news/information-war-media-us/
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>  Hillary Clinton declares international information war
> permalink <http://rt.com/news/information-war-media-us/> email story to a
> friend<http://rt.com/emailstory/?doc_id=58711&type_doc=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Frt.com%2Fnews%2Finformation-war-media-us%2F> print
> version <http://rt.com/news/information-war-media-us/print/>
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> Published: 03 March, 2011, 02:23
> Edited: 03 March, 2011, 14:47US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
> testifies before a Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in
> Washington, DC, March 2, 2011 (AFP Photo / Rod Lamkey Jr)
> (17.9Mb)<http://rt.com/files/news/information-war-media-us/media-gayane-live-02.flv?download=1>embed
> video<http://rt.com/files/news/information-war-media-us/media-gayane-live-02.flv>
>
> *TAGS:* Russia <http://rt.com/tags/russia/>, Politics<http://rt.com/tags/politics/>
> , Mass media <http://rt.com/tags/mass-media/>, USA<http://rt.com/tags/usa/>
> ,Yulia Shapovalova <http://rt.com/tags/yulia-shapovalova/>, Gayane
> Chichakyan <http://rt.com/tags/gayane-chichakyan/>
>
> The US is losing the global information war, Secretary of State Hillary
> Clinton declared while appearing before a congressional committee to ask for
> extra funds to spread US propaganda through new media.
>
> Clinton said existing private channels are not good enough to handle the
> job, naming as rivals Al Jazeera, China's CCTV and RT – which she watches,
> she added.
>
> Clinton was defending her department’s budget in front of the House’s
> Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday.
>
> Clinton said the US should step up its propaganda effort and get back “in
> the game” of doing “what we do best.”
>
> *“During the Cold War we did a great job in getting America’s message out.
> After the Berlin Wall fell we said, ‘Okay, fine, enough of that, we are
> done,’ and unfortunately we are paying a big price for it,”* she said. *“Our
> private media cannot fill that gap.”*
>
> *“We are in an information war and we are losing that war. Al Jazeera is
> winning, the Chinese have opened a global multi-language television network,
> the Russians have opened up an English-language network. I’ve seen it in a
> few countries, and it is quite instructive,*” she stated.
>
> Things have changed a lot since the days when Western media outlets,
> including BBC and CNN, had a monopoly on the coverage of world news. More
> and more viewers across the world tune into various foreign media to get a
> fresh take on events.
>
> It is all in the numbers. For instance, RT’s presence on YouTube is a real
> hit: almost 300 million views, when CNN International is struggling to reach
> 3 million.
>
> RT’s constantly growing audience is an indication that the days of media
> monopoly are over and that people are demanding more multi-polar thinking.
>
> One of the latest examples is Al Jazeera’s coverage of the unrest in the
> Middle East and North Africa, which by most accounts outshone the US media’s
> presentation of events.
>
> Not everyone, however, is happy with the wider variety of media options.
> The head of the federal agency that manages the US’s government-run
> international broadcasting has basically called all those foreign media
> enemies.
>
> Last year Walter Isaacson, who heads the federal agency that manages the
> US’s government-run international broadcasting, including the Voice of
> America, warned against the influence of foreign media.
>
> *“We can’t allow ourselves to be out-communicated by our enemies,” *he
> said, in a now-infamous pitch to get his agency more funding. He did,
> however, later backtrack on his statement, saying that he was misunderstood.
>
> Journalist and filmmaker Danny Schechter says the US can no longer maintain
> a monopoly on information.
>
> *“The United States feels defensive in part because it can no longer
> monopolize not only the terms of authority in these countries, but also the
> terms of the debate,” *he said. *“There is other information out there.
> There are other points of view and those points of view are profoundly
> damaging to a country that believes that its point of view is the only point
> of view.”*
>
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