Congressional Panel Criticizes Management of US International Broadcasting
June 26, 2013
A former leader of U.S. international broadcasting Wednesday urged Congress to re-organize the journalistic agency so that broadcasters follow foreign policy directives. The proposal came during a U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee hearing critical of the management of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the agency that oversees the Voice of America and other international broadcasters.
The title of Wednesday's hearing gave away its main question: "The Broadcasting Board of Governors: An Agency Defunct." In January, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a congressional panel on Benghazi that the agency that oversees U.S. broadcasting, known as the BBG, is dysfunctional and practically "defunct." House Foreign Affairs Chairman, Republican Ed Royce stressed that the problem is not with the journalists working for Voice of America and other broadcasters.
"Each broadcasting service is full of enterprising reporters who literally risk their lives for what they do," Royce said.
But Royce and others at the hearing said that BBG's structure makes reporters' jobs more difficult and that the agency's overall mission is unclear in the post-Cold War era. An Inspector General report issued earlier this year concluded that the BBG is failing in its mandated duties. Committee member Eliot Engel, the senior Democrat on the panel, cited that report.
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