JAMES GLASSMAN, Undersecretary of State: I think Al Hurra is meeting its goals. What Al Hurra was conceived to do was to bring to the Arab-speaking world -- in this case 22 countries -- a free press, to show them what a free press is like.
Yes, that's why it's forbidden under the Smith-Mundt Act from broadcasting in the US. It's just a nutty foreign version of PBS.
:: posted by buermann @ 2008-06-25 08:02:17 CST |
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