U.S. International Broadcasting
Public Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century
Every day, the United States broadcasts news and entertainment programming in 59 languages to more than 100 countries around the world — although most Americans never see or hear it, as Federal law prohibits such transmission within the United States, and some foreign governments actively try to scramble the signals. It’s all part of the U.S. public diplomacy strategy — an attempt to bypass governments and provide foreign citizens with an unbiased view of American culture and uncensored information about their own country and the world. The United States’ first international broadcasting effort was Voice of America (VOA), started during…
