Голос Америки» планирует полностью упразднить свои программы на узбекском языке

[Zamon]

Голос Америки» планирует полностью упразднить свои программы на узбекском языке
06.02.2007 11:51 msk

Взгляд
Совет по международному вещанию (СМВ) США рекомендует радиостанции «Голос Америки» в 2008-м финансовом году, наступающем для правительства США 1 октября сего года, полностью упразднить свои программы на узбекском и грузинском языках, а также сократить вещание на Украину, сообщает «Взгляд».

«Голос Америки» хочет свернуть ряд радиопередач, но сохранить телевещание на русском языке. Это предусмотрено бюджетной заявкой администрации, обнародованной сегодня, 6 февраля, в Вашингтоне. Одновременно власти США предлагают не только сохранить, но и расширить русскоязычное вещание своих радиостанций РС/РСЕ в ультракоротком диапазоне. В целом, как сообщил представитель СМВ США Лэрри Харт, на финансирование деятельности всех подконтрольных Совету телерадиоголосов на российском направлении в 2008 году запрошено 14,1 млн. долларов против 14,9 млн. долларов в текущем году.

Планы организации информационно-пропагандистского телерадиовещания США плотно увязаны с внешнеполитическими приоритетами администрации страны. Соответственно они включают расширение программ, нацеленных на Ближний Восток, Иран, Афганистан и Пакистан, а также мусульманскую аудиторию в Европе. Под прицелом американской пропаганды остаются и другие «ключевые» регионы мира, включая КНДР, Кубу и Венесуэлу, страны Африканского Рога. В связи с этим СМВ США приходится «сворачиваться» на других направлениях.

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Uzland what is going on? i thought Central Asia is priority especially now for USA, its all about money?

[melo]

First of all, it was not the US government's decision, but rather Broadcasting Board of Governors'.

Secondly, yes, the government will listen to the opinions of foreigners if that's who they want to target and if they want to achieve something in those countries.

It is not a private radio channel that is concerned with what its listeners want. It is done to serve a purpose and I think that purpose has been downgraded for other foreign policy issues.

[UzLand]

this is the latest I have...

considering that VOA Uzbek radio has been reinstated in June of 2005 and bearing in mind that it takes time to gain new audience and regain the old audience and that these are results for November-December 2005, I would guess that now the audience should be even higher.

[melo]

There are some forum users with US citizenship. And, they really do consider our, non-citizen opinions as well.

I am sure their decision is based on the fact that they thought the money is wasted, and the radio is not listened, or does not bring back the exptected results.

Back in Tashkent, many years ago, I used to listen to this radio as the only alternative opinion.

There should be many voices, however radical some of them might not be. People should have choice.

I don't see if it matters if there are any US citizens on the forum (and I don't think there are many). Do the US citizens on the forum get to decide foreign policy? I also think it is funny that you are happy with reporting financed directly from the US government.

[UzLand]

It is not a private radio channel that is concerned with what its listeners want. It is done to serve a purpose and I think that purpose has been downgraded for other foreign policy issues.

You don't get a bigger picture:

Why should US be interested in broadcasting to Uzbekistan?

1) After all the American organizations have been kicked out of the country, VOA is the only remaining bridge linking Uzbeks to America or vice-versa.

2) On the eve of historic political changes in Uzbekistan, one would expand, but not eliminate the service.

3) Uzbekistan is still a key country to US interests both from democratic and security points of view

4) Democrats that make up the majority of the Congress should least of all be associating itself with closing the service thus undermining efforts to implicitly promote democracy and human rights

5) Audience is not just Uzbeks in Uzbekistan, but also a few million Uzbeks in Afghanistan and if this country is US priority than you should be concerned with what the Afghan population in the north wants.

6) By closing the service you, as the US government, would send a wrong message to the government of Uzbekistan...

[UzLand]

I don't see if it matters if there are any US citizens on the forum (and I don't think there are many). Do the US citizens on the forum get to decide foreign policy? I also think it is funny that you are happy with reporting financed directly from the US government.

You are so great at discouraging people. By keeping yourself from discouraging others you will accomplish more. Because if you don't believe in yourself, let others do it. If you think you can't make a change, let others make that change for you.

You are one of the most pessimist users I've seen in this forum.

[melo]

You don't get a bigger picture:

Why should US be interested in broadcasting to Uzbekistan?

1) After all the American organizations have been kicked out of the country, VOA is the only remaining bridge linking Uzbeks to America or vice-versa.

2) On the eve of historic political changes in Uzbekistan, one would expand, but not eliminate the service.

3) Uzbekistan is still a key country to US interests both from democratic and security points of view

4) Democrats that make up the majority of the Congress should least of all be associating itself with closing the service thus undermining efforts to implicitly promote democracy and human rights

5) Audience is not just Uzbeks in Uzbekistan, but also a few million Uzbeks in Afghanistan and if this country is US priority than you should be concerned with what the Afghan population in the north wants.

6) By closing the service you, as the US government, would send a wrong message to the government of Uzbekistan...

I think democrats in the US are trying to focus more on US problems instead of global ones. I have always thought the democratic party was less interested in global issues than the republican party. That is how they got elected and I don't think they will boraden anything throughout the world (especially more democracy building crap that has been shown as worthless). I am positive no US citizens would care if the democrats stop trying to promote democracy thorughout the world. If anything that would help them get re-elected. I don't beleive the US military or other organizations operates in Northern Afghanistan.

[melo]

You are so great at discouraging people. By keeping yourself from discouraging others you will accomplish more. Because if you don't believe in yourself, let others do it. If you think you can't make a change, let others make that change for you.

You are one of the most pessimist users I've seen in this forum.

I am aginst foreign influences and imperialism. I also think my point about the US government not caring about its own citizens ideas is true. They definitley don't care about foreign citizens opinions. That is very un-american.

[MUHLIS]

Ba'zi birlar endi buni amerikaliklar o'rta osiyoda ruslarning qayta nazorat o'rnatganining belgisi deb bilsalar ajab emas. Anavi yuvindixona saytdagi yangilikda ham shunday kayifiyat hidi ufurib turibdi.
Urushda bo'lgan mamlakat ikkinchi darajali narsalardan voz kechib urush uchun pul to'plashi tabiiy hol. Asli sababi shu.

[UzLand]

U.S. budget proposal harms press freedom in Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tibet and China by Ted Lipien

FreeMediaOnline.org Free Media Online, San Francisco, Feburary 6, 2006 -- The Bush Administration's federal budget proposal for FY2008 offers good news to dictators, authoritarian rulers and suppressors of press freedom in a number of countries and regions. The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) - a bipartisan body in charge of all U.S. international broadcasting - confirmed plans reflected in the FY2008 budget proposal for eliminating Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts in Russian, closing down VOA Uzbek radio service, reducing Tibetan broadcasts by VOA and Radio Free Asia (RFA), and stopping VOA and RFA broadcasts in Cantonese. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty programs to Kazakhstan will be reduced under this budget. The White House and the BBG also want to eliminate or reduce VOA and RFE/RL programs to the Balkans, where some media outlets continue to stir ethnic hatred. Many hours of VOA English broadcasts heard around the world in countries without free media are also scheduled for elimination.

It's true that the Bush Administration's FY2008 budget calls for enhancing U.S. broadcasting to countries that are some of the worst violators of human rights and press freedom: North Korea, Iran and Cuba. But the BBG again failed to convince the budget planners at the White House that media freedom is also under severe threat in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tibet and China.

FreeMediaOnline.org, a nonprofit organization founded to support freedom of the press, describes these proposed cuts and reductions in U.S. international broadcasting as a "gift to dictators and suppressors of press freedom." Whenever budget cuts become necessary to pay for new
programs to countries and regions where freedom of expression is suppressed, the BBG inevitably relies on cutting programs to audiences which are also deprived of free media but are less important for the foreign policy goals of the Administration.

This lack of consistency sends a terrible signal to defenders of freedom and courageous journalists around the world. Some of them, like independent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, paid with their lives for exposing human rights violations and participating in VOA Russian radio programs, which the White House and the BBG plan to eliminate.

Even if the White House refused to provide more money, the BBG could have saved these important broadcasts if it tried to reform the enormous bureaucracy of its program support divisions. Violators of press freedom in Russia, China, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan must be pleased that the BBG, which has both Republican and Democratic members, does not have the courage to stand up to the Administration or to reform its operations.

Administration officials and the Broadcasting Board of Governors took the easy way out by rewarding dictators and betraying defenders of press freedom in Russia and in other media-at-risk countries and regions. The U.S. Congress should refuse to accept these cuts and demand from the White House and the BBG a consistent U.S. international broadcasting strategy in support of freedom.

[MUHLIS]

Umid qilamanki bu narsalar vaqtinchalik. Chunki O'zbek tilidagi dasturga ketadigan bir yillik mablag' urushga ketadigan bir kunlik mablag'dan ham oz bo'lsa kerak. Shuning uchun ham men bu harakatni pul tejashning eng oqilona usuli deb hisoblamayman.

[UzLand]

Umid qilamanki bu narsalar vaqtinchalik. Chunki O'zbek tilidagi dasturga ketadigan bir yillik mablag' urushga ketadigan bir kunlik mablag'dan ham oz bo'lsa kerak. Shuning uchun ham men bu harakatni pul tejashning eng oqilona usuli deb hisoblamayman.

АКШнинг Ирок ва Афгонистондаги 50 минг та кушини битта обед килса (10 доллардан), Америка овозининг бир йиллик бюджети келиб чикади

[Ted]

In FreeMediaOnline.org story by Ted Lipien, the correct date should be February 6, 2007.

[UzbekGirlie]

I am aginst foreign influences and imperialism. I also think my point about the US government not caring about its own citizens ideas is true. They definitley don't care about foreign citizens opinions. That is very un-american.

What country does care about foreign citizen's oinions. None that I am aware of. As far as Americans I think their opinions are heard if needed be.

[melo]

What country does care about foreign citizen's oinions. None that I am aware of. As far as Americans I think their opinions are heard if needed be.

In this example they definitley do not care about US citizens oppinion. I was just telling them that they don't need to bother writing to the US government to tell them that they want VOA Uzbek to continue.

[UzbekGirlie]

In this example they definitley do not care about US citizens oppinion. I was just telling them that they don't need to bother writing to the US government to tell them that they want VOA Uzbek to continue.

Why? VOA Uzbek serves to purpose to US citizens. I know i stopped listening to it- for past year and half or may be more it has sucked...