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" Airwaves Off-Limits to New Propaganda Tsar Karen Hughes"
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NEW YORK -- One of the most experienced broadcast experts in the United States believes that Karen Hughes -- the high-profile confidante of Pres. George W. Bush nominated to help the State Department do a major makeover of U.S. public diplomacy -- may not be able to lay a glove on one of its key programmes: international broadcasting..

Alvin Snyder, Centre on Public Diplomacy
Alvin Snyder, a senior fellow at the University of Southern California's Centre on Public Diplomacy, says international broadcasting channels -- ”one of the basic tools in the U.S. public diplomacy arsenal” -- are protected by a ”firewall” that makes them off-limits to people from the State Department, or anywhere else.

”The wall is policed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a government-funded but independent corporation governed by eight private-sector politically appointed members -- four Republicans and four Democrats,” Snyder told IPS. ”The secretary of state is the ninth member of the BBG in case there's a tie vote.”

”The purpose of the firewall is to keep broadcast channels independent from government influence,” Snyder says, ”and that government would certainly include the State Department.”

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