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re: Why is it that we do not have a law against MSM pushing propaganda
Posted on 3/19/24 at 9:46 am to 88Wildcat
Posted on 3/19/24 at 9:46 am to 88Wildcat
88Wildcat
My apologies. What actually occurred was the Smith Mundt modernization act of 2012 signed by Obama.
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The president does not have that power. Congress can pass for an act of Congress repealling a previous law and the President can sign that act but the president does not have the power to repeal laws made by Congress, only Congress has that power.
My apologies. What actually occurred was the Smith Mundt modernization act of 2012 signed by Obama.
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Introduced in House (05/10/2012)
Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 - Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the Secretary of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide for the preparation and dissemination of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, including about its people, its history, and the federal government's policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers and instructors. (Under current law such authority is restricted to information disseminated abroad, with a limited domestic exception.)
Authorizes the Secretary and the Board to make available in the United States motion pictures, films, video, audio, and other materials prepared for dissemination abroad or disseminated abroad pursuant to such Act, the United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, or the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act.
Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 to prohibit funds for the Department of State or the Board from being used to influence public opinion or propagandizing in the United States. (Under current law such provision applies to the United States Information Agency [USIA].)
Applies such prohibition only to programs carried out pursuant to the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, the United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, and the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act.
States that such provision shall: (1) not prohibit the Department or the Board from providing information about its operations, policies, programs, or program material, or making such information available to members of the media, public, or Congress; (2) not be construed to prohibit the Department from engaging in any medium of information on a presumption that a U.S. domestic audience may be exposed to program material; and (3) apply only to the Department and the Board and to no other federal department or agency.
Posted on 3/19/24 at 12:44 pm to TigerB8
Having lived in many foreign countries on military bases I am surprised how few Americans know the scope of American propaganda overseas. CNN is the worlds number one purveyor of foreign propaganda, it is to this day. What the "modernization" act did was allow the same propaganda to be disseminated here.
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