Clinton on Propaganda Budget: U.S. Losing ‘Information War’

Clinton on Propaganda Budget: U.S. Losing ‘Information War’

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Congress on March 2 that the American government was losing an information war around the world as foreign media entities continue their rise to power, explaining that the U.S. government needed to step up propaganda efforts to promote its international objectives as the American media was becoming increasingly irrelevant.

The top diplomat’s comments prompted a range of reactions including gloating by media outlets abroad, as well as ridicule and anger by critics in America. Accusations that Clinton was just seeking ever-greater sums of tax money to promote more fraudulent propaganda abroad were common, too.

“We are in an information war, and we are losing that war,” Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while defending her department’s budget of almost $50 billion. “Al Jazeera is winning, the Chinese have opened a global English-language and 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.”

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