Posted on 05/14/2005 4:55:25 PM PDT by Valin
Greenwich resident Steven Simmons says he helps fight the war on terrorism, albeit not on the front lines. His battle is fought over the airwaves rather than in insurgent-infested slums.
Simmons, 58, is one of eight civilian members of the Broadcasting Board of Gover-nors, a bipartisan, presidential-appointed and U.S. Senate-confirmed agency that supervises all U.S. nonmilitary broadcasts, including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.
The agency has a $600 million annual budget and employs 3,200 people, in addition to 1,000 part-time stringers. Most of the agency's employees are journalists and producers, whose many ventures include the 2004 launch of the 24-hour Arabic satellite news network Alhurra, meaning The Free One.....
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