pitch has obviously been very good because in the budget agreement from last week the broadcasting board of governors was actually given an additional ten million dollars to work on internet circumvention few americans have ever heard of broadcasting board of governors the agency responsible for overseeing voice of america. would have a trusted source of news for the region on the other u.s. government but if you will see us from agencies nine part time governors play a full time role in shaping the u.s. image abroad from our perspective we've got to target every place all the time because we think everybody has value and every country has importance former radio free europe director tom dine says nonprofit organization freedom house is a map of the world that describes beachy efforts iran russia china egypt and africa if you follow the freedom house map you'll see that i was following the map even though i didn't have it on me in my. as freedom house a stated mission is to promote democracy abroad but it's come under fire by critics who say its mission is to remove regimes that aren't friendly to th

look at if we could roll this next graphic that we have the broadcasting board of governors what do they do well they broadcast all over the world fifty nine languages to an estimated weekly audience of one hundred sixty five million people on the radio t.v. the internet other new media this is you know the board of governors is a government agency this is government media and some of their objectives that they've said and how that are to be consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the united states and let's look at what their stations are as i mentioned this encompasses all u.s. civilian international broadcasting this includes voice of america radio free europe radio free asia t.v. marti and in the middle east they have radio saw one alpha draw television so all of those broadcast from the u.s. and also another of their goals is the capability to provide a surge capacity to support united states foreign policy objectives during crises abroad so i know that was kind of a little bit of a lesson but i did think it was necessary to kind of break down what some of these other