White House eyes Bannon ally for top broadcasting post

[mahatmakanejeeves]

I read at the DCRTV Mailbag yesterday that he had already been nominated:

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has a new CEO appointed by the White House. It's Michael Pack, a documentary filmmaker and former exec at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The BBG controls Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. (7/5/17)

I can't find any news source for that. A poster today has expressed doubt too:

Re: Michael Pack-BBG ... FAKE NEWS! Perhaps the previous poster will share the source of this (dis)information. Although this appointment has been rumored for several weeks, there has been no such announcement. Both the White House & BBG websites have been silent on this matter. (7/6/17)

Here's an article about Michael Pack anyway:

White House eyes Bannon ally for top broadcasting post
With sweeping new powers, the position would oversee public media reaching 100 countries.
By HADAS GOLD 06/01/2017 11:04 AM EDT Updated 06/01/2017 03:35 PM EDT

The Trump administration’s leading candidate to head the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a position that with recent changes would give the appointee unilateral power over the United States’ government messaging abroad reaching millions, is a conservative documentarian with ties to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation.

Michael Pack, the leading contender for the post, is president and CEO of the Claremont Institute and publisher of its Claremont Review of Books, a California-based conservative institute that has been called the “academic home of Trumpism” by the Chronicle of Higher Education. ... Pack, a former Corporation for Public Broadcasting executive, and Bannon are mutual admirers and have worked on two documentaries together. Pack has appeared on Bannon’s radio show and wrote an op-ed in March praising Bannon as a pioneer in conservative documentary filmmaking.

Should he be appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate, Pack would be the first CEO of the BBG without a board as a firewall because of a little-noticed provision in last December's National Defense Authorization Act that disbanded the bipartisan board that controls the BBG.

“The White House could theoretically use the BBG for any kind of messaging,” one senior government official with direct knowledge of the situation said. “People are generally worried about what might happen next because it would change the nature of BBG from having a CEO and a board and a track record for protecting independence to what might come next."
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Tara Palmeri contributed to this report.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Sick, twisted, ugly and embarrassing.

Every day our country becomes a bigger embarrassment and disgrace and danger to the rest of the human race.

[OhNo-Really]

2. how much is Trumb et al being paid for the Sale of America?

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. It sounds like the plan that KellyAnn conway was talking about.

the "propaganda machine" they were gonna develop after the election? It was gonna be "a tower of sound", her exact words.
This severe recitation of "fake news" over and over and over even in a single day, should not be taken lightly.

The Koch brothers have been inciting this stuff for years, Bannon and that Nazi Miller guy seem pretty dedicated to following history's play

Remember Bannon's take on it:

"“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile,”
Steve Bannon told the New York Times in late January. “The media here is the opposition party.”