United States propagandists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Chapters: American propaganda films, United States government propaganda organisations, Office of Strategic Influence, Voice of America, Edward Bernays, Lincoln Group, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Alhurra, United States Office of War Information, Committee on Public Information, Radio Free Asia, William L. Laurence, White House Iraq Group, United States Information Agency, Radio y Televisión Martí, Radio Free Afghanistan, Radio Farda, Office of Public Diplomacy, Perversion for Profit, Writers' War Board, Michael McManus, TV Martí, International Broadcasting Bureau, Radio Sawa, The Tanks Are Coming, Radio Free Iraq, Project Pedro, War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry. Excerpt: Voice of America (VOA) is the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government. It is one of five civilian U.S. international broadcasters working under the umbrella of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). VOA provides a wide range of programming for broadcast on radio and TV and the Internet outside of the U.S. in 44 languages. VOA produces about 1,500 hours of news and feature programming each week for an estimated global audience of 123 million people, "to promote freedom and democracy and to enhance understanding through multimedia communication of accurate, objective, and balanced news, information and other programming about America and the world to audiences overseas." Its day-to-day operations are supported by the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB). A 1976 law signed by President Gerald Ford requires VOA to "serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news." The VOA Charter states: "VOA news will be accurate, objective and comprehensive." VOA radio and television broadcasts are distributed by satellite, cable and on FM, AM, and shortwave radio frequencies. They are streamed on individual language service websites, social media sites and mobile platforms. VOA has more than 1,200 affiliate and contract agreements with radio and television stations and cable networks worldwide. The Delano Transmitting Station, which used a very large curtain array, was closed in October 2007.One of VOA's radio transmitter facilities was originally based on a 625-acre (2.53 km) site in Union Township (now West Chester Township) in Butler County, Ohio, near Cincinnati. The Bethany Relay Station operated from 1944 to 1994. Other former sites include California (Dixon, Delano), Hawaii, Okinawa, Liberia, Costa Rica, and Belize. Currently, the VOA and the IBB continue to operate shortwave radio transmitters and antenna farms at one site in the United States, located near Greenville, North Carolina. They do not use FCC issued