{"id":6800,"date":"2015-07-23T19:04:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T02:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2015-07-23T19:04:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T02:04:36","slug":"conover-and-the-voa-a-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/07\/conover-and-the-voa-a-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Conover And The VOA: A Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;XhJm9sqoTcALAYgcGsq0bBddfKXvasUh&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/William-Armstrong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/William-Armstrong.jpg\" alt=\"William Armstrong\" width=\"194\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6801\" \/><\/a>Answering one word in my  <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> piece yesterday about Willis Conover, Matt Armstrong (pictured) posted on his blog a clarification of the effect of the Smith-Mundt Act. Mr. Armstrong is a member of the Broadcating Board of Governors, which oversees the U.S. Government&#8217;s civilian international media, including the Voice of America. In the <em>WSJ<\/em> article, I wrote that the 1948 Smith-Mundt legislation forbids the Voice of America \u00e2\u20ac\u0153from broadcasting within the U.S.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He defends my right to use the term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153forbids\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and says it is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the conventional wisdom.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Then he writes at length about the application of Smith-Mundt in practice and about Senator William Fullbright and others in the congress objecting to the whole concept of the VOA and changing Smith-Mundt. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the end,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he writes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153there is a little irony in that the great Willis Conover, the cultural diplomat, is unknown to Americans because of Senator Fulbright, the celebrated champion of exchanges.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>There is much more in Mr. Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long essay about the history of Smith-Mundt, Senator Karl Mundt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s role in promoting what eventually was called the Fullbright Act, about the VOA and public diplomacy in general. To read it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainrunner.us\/blog\/2015\/7\/willis-conover-smith-mundt?utm_content=buffera5cea&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;XhJm9sqoTcALAYgcGsq0bBddfKXvasUh&#8221;] Answering one word in my Wall Street Journal piece yesterday about Willis Conover, Matt Armstrong (pictured) posted on his blog a clarification of the effect of the Smith-Mundt Act. Mr. Armstrong is a member of the Broadcating Board of Governors, which oversees the U.S. Government&#8217;s civilian international media, including the Voice of America. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}