"Media play a pivotal role in U.S. foreign policy, but the two U.S. government bodies most directly involved in media development assistance - the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) - face significant resource shortfalls in this area. This weakness has a direct impact on the U.S. government's ability to support media development around the world." (Executive summary, page 6)