This was the acceleration of the MSM fall from grace. I remember back when this happened - it was like a switch was flipped. The news started sounding like 'mean girls' and 'view' combined.
"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.)"
Modified means changed. Face it the gov’t never does anything to benefit the people. The gov’t can disseminate propaganda (lies) to the American people using the many forms of media. Can you say, 4 a.m. talking points?
We are the news now. (Especially since the Smith-Mundt Act was repealed in 2012).
He got rid of the part that made propaganda in the United States illegal since 1947.
In other words lies.
This was the acceleration of the MSM fall from grace. I remember back when this happened - it was like a switch was flipped. The news started sounding like 'mean girls' and 'view' combined.
It was not repealed, it was modified.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736
"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.)"
Modified means changed. Face it the gov’t never does anything to benefit the people. The gov’t can disseminate propaganda (lies) to the American people using the many forms of media. Can you say, 4 a.m. talking points?