[BITList] World Service fears losing information war as Russia Today ramps up pressure | Media | The Guardian

[Michael Feltham]

The present Government, when they came into power, stopped funding  the Overseas Service and made the BBC fund it from their own funds.  Prior to this the Overseas Service was funded by the Foreign Office.

Mike
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> http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/dec/21/bbc-world-service-information-war-russia-today <http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/dec/21/bbc-world-service-information-war-russia-today>
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> World Service fears losing information war as Russia Today ramps up pressure
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> The BBC World Service <http://www.theguardian.com/media/bbc-world-service> is being financially outgunned by Russian and Chinese state-owned news channels, its former director Peter Horrocks has warned, amid high-level concerns that Britain and the US are losing a global “information war” with the Kremlin.
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