Back in the USSR?

In 2005, The New York Times published an article about how many "local news" broadcasted by "independent" TV and radio stations were in fact created (is "fabricated" the right word here?) by US State Department.

It seems that the spirit of propaganda did not die with the collapse of the USSR:

An important instrument of this strategy was the Office of Broadcasting Services, a State Department unit of 30 or so editors and technicians whose typical duties include distributing video from news conferences. But in early 2002, with close editorial direction from the White House, the unit began producing narrated feature reports, many of them promoting American achievements in Afghanistan and Iraq and reinforcing the administration's rationales for the invasions. These reports were then widely distributed in the United States and around the world for use by local television stations. In all, the State Department has produced 59 such segments.

I wonder if VDNKh is coming any time soon.

Found in Digg.