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Clinton Wants $47bn for News
| International News by Staff ReporterClinton wants to revive the American global news machine to help win the 'information war'
Hilary Clinton has asked the U.S. Congress for more money to promote America’s agenda overseas as she says foreign news networks are winning the 'global information war'.She said English-speaking foreign news networks are increasingly making American media irrelevant around the world, and as a result the U.S. needed to step up their propaganda efforts.
Explaining the situation to Congress on March 2, Clinton said the U.S. was on the losing side of the information war.
"Al-Jazeera is winning," she said, "the Chinese have opened up a global English-language and multi-language television network, the Russians have opened up an English-language network. I’ve seen it, and it’s quite instructive."
Referring to the Cold War, she said America had done a great job of getting their message out, but that now the effects of withdrawing are starting to show.
"After the Berlin Wall fell we said, 'OK, fine, enough of that – you know, we’ve done it, we’re done.’ And unfortunately we’re paying a big price for it today." Clinton said.
Speaking to RussiaToday (RT) Georgetown University lecturer Christopher Chambers said America has opened huge gaps in its media as it’s been more concerned with reality TV and who’s attacking the President, than what’s actually happening on the ground.
Referring to Al-Jazeera, he said : "When you do that [cover stories on the ground] you can produce a product that people here and around the world are going to respect."
Clinton told Congress that America’s home-networks were not up to the task of filling the gap, accusing the U.S. media of "a million commercials, arguments between talking heads and a general lack of useful information, even for Americans".
"Our private media, particularly cultural programming, often works at counter purposes to what we truly are as Americans," she said, explaining that she had once spoken to an Afghan general who believed all American men wrestled and their women wore bikinis because he had only seen wrestling and Baywatch on the TV.
Clinton is defending her $47 billion
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