22 U.S.C. § 1462 — Policies governing information activities

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Congress states that Government international information activity should be reduced when private dissemination is adequate. The Department and Broadcasting Board may not have a monopoly over short-wave programming or other information media.

Congress states that (1) the Secretary and Broadcasting Board of Governors should reduce Government information activities when corresponding private dissemination is adequate, and (2) nothing in this chapter gives the Department or Board a monopoly on producing or sponsoring short-wave broadcasts or on any other information medium.

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In authorizing international information activities under this chapter, it is the sense of the Congress (1) that the Secretary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors shall reduce such Government information activities whenever corresponding private information dissemination is found to be adequate; (2) that nothing in this chapter shall be construed to give the Department or the Broadcasting Board of Governors a monopoly in the production or sponsorship on the air of short-wave broadcasting programs, or a monopoly in any other medium of information.

Source credit: (Jan. 27, 1948, ch. 36, title V, § 502, 62 Stat. 10; Pub. L. 112–239, div. A, title X, § 1078(d)(1), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 1958.)

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1948Enacted · Act of Jan. 27, 1948, ch. 36 · 62 Stat. 10
2013Amended · Pub. L. 112-239 · 126 Stat. 1958

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