Comments on: U.S. Taxpayers Pay for Spreading Racist Views on Radio Liberty in Russia

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Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:37:16 +0000

[...] About the same time, BBG member Jeff Hirschberg (D. Jeffrey Hirschberg), who has business links in Russia, and the Board’s executive director Jeffrey Trimble conducted secret negotiations with Russian officials to assure them that RFE/RL would practice only “responsible” journalism. When human rights journalist Anna Politkovskaya was brutally murdered in 2006, their hand-picked managers in charge of RFE/RL operations Moscow and Prague expressed confidence in Mr. Putin’s leadership. Another change resulting from BBG market research in Russia was to allow Russian nationalists and other extremists access to Radio Liberty airwaves, causing a Russian human rights organization to issue a warning that comments by these individuals on a U.S. taxpayer-funded station promote acts of violence against immigrants, Blacks, and other minorities. [...]

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Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:43:20 +0000

[...] are subject to blackmail and other forms of intimidation by the Kremlin’s secret police. “U.S. Taxpayers Pay for Spreading Racist Views on Radio Liberty in Russia: What Would Barack Obama… Use this link to the ProPublica.org web site to view the Alhurra Holocaust report (with English [...]

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» Public Diplomacy 2.0 or Propaganda Museum Exhibits - Blogger News Network — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:26:53 +0000

[...] More recently, a Russian human rights organization, the Moscow Human Rights Bureau, has criticized Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for giving an entire hour of airtime to a Russian politician known for his racist views and verbal attacks on Blacks and other ethnic and racial minorities. For the new U.S. administration headed by the first African-American president, this is not a very encouraging sign that the BBG’s marketing and programming strategies have been successful. View FreeMediaOnline.org report: “U.S. Taxpayers Pay for Spreading Racist Views on Radio Liberty in Russia: What Would Barack O… [...]

By: » U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors Silenced Voice of America Radio in Ukraine One Day Before Russia Halted Gas Supplies to Europe - Blogger News Network

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:10:57 +0000

[...] There is also growing evidence of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s inability to carry out its journalistic mission in Russia and in other countries where free media is at risk. FreeMediaOnline.org has been reporting that as a result of strategic decisions made by the BBG, RFE/RL journalists based in Russia are subject to blackmail by the Kremlin’s secret police. The BBG not only ignored these warnings but also prevented VOA journalists based in the relative safety of Washington, D.C. to broadcast radio news to the war zone during the height of the Russian-Georgian conflict last summer. A Russian human rights organization has accused RFE/RL of giving extensive airtime to an extremist Russian politician known for making racist comments about J…. [...]

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By: » Failure of Privatizing U.S. Image Abroad: White House Publishes Self-Serving But Questionable Claims from the Broadcasting Board of Governors - Blogger News Network

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:37:33 +0000

[...] Russian human rights organization, the Moscow Human Rights Bureau has criticized Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for giving an entire hour of airtime to a Russian politician known for his racist views and verbal attacks on Blacks and other ethnic and racial minorities. View FreeMediaOnline.org: U.S. Taxpayers Pay for Spreading Racist Views on Radio Liberty in Russia [...]

By: Piotr

Piotr — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:48:17 +0000

From a frequent Radio Liberty listener in Russian. Everyday broadcasting of nationalist views from politicians and men in power. Criticism of Ukraine, Baltic [states] and other neighbours. Anti-Israeli propaganda … Seldom any critical discussions with [pro-democracy] opposition. Ingratiation with the authorities …

By: Jim Critchlow

Jim Critchlow — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:14:49 +0000

Ted. As the BIB staffer who stirred things up in Washington by blowing the whistle on certain anti-Semitic, anti-Polish and anti-Catholic broadcasts of the RL Russian service, I read this piece with no little interest. Of course you are right that unsavory material may be broadcast only on condition that it is simultaneously balanced by opposing views. In the case of RL that I mention, the evil stuff was presented as coming from the station.

My book describes in some detail my “raid” on the RFE/RL transmitters to document the appalling content of some of the broadcasts.

Keep it up. Jim

By: » Paula Zahn Called Upon to Explain U.S. Radio Program Cuts to Countries Without Free Media - Blogger News Network

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:59:45 +0000

[...] FreeMediaOnline.org reported earlier that the Senate Staff of Senator Joe Biden worked with some of the BBG members and their executive director to help them take VOA radio programs to Russia off the air despite strong opposition to this move from most of the other members of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats. Shutting down VOA Russian-language broadcasting is seen as helpful to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) – a semi-private station also managed by the BBG — which is incorporated in Delaware, Senator Biden’s home state. RFE/RL has also been steeped in controversy. A human rights organization in Russia has recently criticized RFE/RL for giving airtime to an extremist Russian politician known for expressing racist views about immigrants. [...]