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Date: Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:46 PM<br>Subject: [P2P-F] "Hillary Clinton declares international information war" - article + video<br>To: <a href="mailto:sustainable_solidarity@yahoogroups.com">sustainable_solidarity@yahoogroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:hc_ecology@yahoogroups.com">hc_ecology@yahoogroups.com</a>, p2p-foundation <<a href="mailto:p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org">p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a><br>
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<b><font color="#000066" size="4">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.</font></b></p>
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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.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">
Clinton was defending her department�s budget in front of the House�s Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">
Clinton said the US should step up its propaganda effort and get back �in the game� of doing �what we do best.�</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">
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<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Published:�<span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important;">03 March, 2011, 02:23</span><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">
Edited:�<span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153) ! important;">03 March, 2011, 14:47</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">US 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)</span></p>
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<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;">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.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;">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.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;">Clinton was defending her department�s budget in front of the House�s Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;">Clinton said the US should step up its propaganda effort and get back �in the game� of doing �what we do best.�</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;"><i style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">�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,�</i>�she said.�<i style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">�Our private media cannot fill that gap.�</i></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;"><i style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">�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,</i>� she stated.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;">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.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;">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.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;">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.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;">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.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;">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.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;">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.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;"><i style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">�We can�t allow ourselves to be out-communicated by our enemies,��</i>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.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden;">Journalist and filmmaker Danny Schechter says the US can no longer maintain a monopoly on information.�<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">
<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><i style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">�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,��</i>he said.�<i style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">�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.�</i></p>
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