UNFree Media: propaganda

Holbroke's message to Pakistan.....

 $50 million slush fund for Pakistani Television stations

In the Cold War  the CIA and Britain's MI6 secretly funded writers, journalists and artists as a war of  ideas, images and propaganda secretly unfolded across Europe.

The Obama Administration wants to emulate that policy in Pakistan and the region, where America is getting pasted in the media. 

A 15-page spending plan reveals that it has asked Congress for $50 million which it wants to get into the hands of Pakistan's media barons -  in the name of buying a better press.

 The State Department ambitious plan is to transform a growing hostility towards America into admiration. We can assume that the CIA is already doing something similar with its own secret slush funds.

A drumbeat of drone attacks over the past two years have whipped up intense anger among Pakistanis towards the US. At its core is the concern that the country's sovereignty is being trampled by the US. 

Now the US hopes to tamp down those concerns by sending in what it calls "rapid response team" to monitor Pakistani and regional media and "swiftly correct inaccurate reporting."