{"id":1423,"date":"2020-08-11T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2020-08-11T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T01:18:08","slug":"rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me-pompeo-denounces-proposed-russian-law-as-burdensome-limitation-on-us-propaganda-outlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Rules for thee but not for me: Pompeo denounces proposed Russian law as \u2018burdensome\u2019 limitation on US propaganda outlets"},"content":{"rendered":"

from rt.com<\/a><\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has voiced a protest over a proposed Russian rule that would require labeling of propaganda content, saying it would burden \u201cindependent\u201d information work of outlets such as Voice of America.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decree will impose new burdensome requirements that will further inhibit RFE\/RL\u2019s and VOA\u2019s ability to operate within Russia,\u201d Pompeo said<\/a> Monday, commenting on the draft rule published by the media regulator Roskomnadzor.<\/p>\n

Pompeo called VOA and its sister outlet Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty \u201cvital sources of independent news and information for the people of Russia\u201d for \u201cmore than 70 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Far from independent, however, they were both established as US propaganda outlets at the dawn of the Cold War. They are fully funded by the government, and the charter of their parent organization \u2013 now known as US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) \u2013 mandates they \u201cbe consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the United States\u201d and \u201cprovide a surge capacity to support United States foreign policy objectives during crises abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 1948 law that established these outlets outright prohibited their content from being broadcast in the US itself, until the Obama administration amended it in 2013.<\/p>\n

The proposed rule would require all content produced by designated \u201cforeign agents\u201d in the Russian Federation to be clearly labeled. When the draft of it was made public last month, acting RFE\/RL president Daisy Sindelar protested<\/a> that its purpose was to \u201cintimidate\u201d her audience and make them \u201cfeel like criminals, or believe that they are in danger when they watch or read our materials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet the Russian regulation is the mirror image of the requirement imposed under the US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) on RT, Sputnik and China Global Television Network (CTGN) since 2017, which only a handful of groups such as the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned<\/a> as an attack on free speech. The USAGM remained conspicuously silent even as the designated outlets were denied credentials to access government press conferences.<\/p>\n

US-based social media companies have also bowed to political pressure and labeled Russian- and Chinese-based outlets as \u201cstate-affiliated,\u201d while refraining from using that descriptor for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the German outlet Deutsche Welle, the French AFP, the Turkish TRT, or any of the USAGM outlets, once again showcasing the double standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from rt.com US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has voiced a protest over a proposed Russian rule that would require labeling of propaganda content, saying it would burden \u201cindependent\u201d information work of outlets such as Voice of America. \u201cThis decree will impose new burdensome requirements that will further inhibit RFE\/RL\u2019s and VOA\u2019s ability to operate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}