Turn it off. (Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty) (Editorial)

From: The Progressive | Date: September 1, 1993 | Copyright information

The US Congress should stop funding the two radio stations which broadcast into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union before the collapse of communism. Citizens of the former Eastern Bloc have access to western news and the stations are just a waste of public money.

We're indebted to Russell Feingold, the junior Democratic Senator from Wisconsin, for prying out of the Board for International Broadcasting, a quasi-public body, the exorbitant salaries it pays to its own executives an...

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