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From: William Gladys <william.gladys@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:46 PM
Subject: Fw: A MUST TO WATCH VIDEO - Hillary Clinton: US Losing Information War to Alternative Media
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Al Jazeera??? It's the  mouthpiece for the BBC!!! As for losing the battle Hilary Clinton - you wouldn't if you could bring your self and your abysmal war mongering self interested government  to tell the blasted truth for a change. Yet another blatant example of one more Western hypocrit. William Gladys.

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From: KarimAG

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Subject: A MUST TO WATCH VIDEO - Hillary Clinton: US Losing Information War to Alternative Media

http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/03/hillary-clinton-us-losing-information-war-alternative-media

 

 

Hillary Clinton: US Losing Information War to Alternative Media

by grtv

 

The US is losing the global information war, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared while appearing before a congressional committee to ask for extra funds to spread US propaganda through new media.

Clinton said existing private channels are not good enough to handle the job, naming as rivals Al Jazeera, China's CCTV and RT -- which she watches, she added.

Clinton was defending her department's budget in front of the House's Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday. She said the US should step up its propaganda effort and get back "in the game" of doing "what we do best."

"During the Cold War we did a great job in getting America's message out. After the Berlin Wall fell we said, 'Okay, fine, enough of that, we are done,' and unfortunately we are paying a big price for it," she said. "Our private media cannot fill that gap."

"We are in an information war and we are losing that war. Al Jazeera is winning, the Chinese have opened a global 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," she stated.

Things have changed a lot since the days when Western media outlets, including BBC and CNN, had a monopoly on the coverage of world news. More and more viewers across the world tune into various foreign media to get a fresh take on events.

It is all in the numbers. For instance, RT's presence on YouTube is a real hit: almost 300 million views, when CNN International is struggling to reach 3 million.

RT's constantly growing audience is an indication that the days of media monopoly are over and that people are demanding more multi-polar thinking.

 

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