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In a late night move last Wednesday night, Trump fires VOA chief and replaces her with a Steve Bannon ally.
This looks like a very dangerous move by Trump to take over the American international broadcasting system. A government funded news outlet that's been bi-partisan since WWII. This is really scary stuff. Anyone who thinks Trump is not authoritarian, think again. Not good news for the U.S.
Now this may not look like that much of a big deal to some here, but to me, My father spent 35 years at the VOA and he loved his job. He would be rolling in his grave right about now.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...?id=71280723&usg=AOvVaw16HOQ25yLvjGbfhRO0OMAk
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...or-officials&usg=AOvVaw3IQod8tUGPXzu6ChcVKlKz
In a late night move last Wednesday night, Trump fires VOA chief and replaces her with a Steve Bannon ally.
This looks like a very dangerous move by Trump to take over the American international broadcasting system. A government funded news outlet that's been bi-partisan since WWII. This is really scary stuff. Anyone who thinks Trump is not authoritarian, think again. Not good news for the U.S.
Now this may not look like that much of a big deal to some here, but to me, My father spent 35 years at the VOA and he loved his job. He would be rolling in his grave right about now.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...?id=71280723&usg=AOvVaw16HOQ25yLvjGbfhRO0OMAk
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...or-officials&usg=AOvVaw3IQod8tUGPXzu6ChcVKlKz
VoA still exists and people still listen to them? Now thats news to me.
I don’t understand what this is about.
They’re clearly up to something. There Is almost certainly more to it than just Bannonizing the VoA.
As a long time VoA listener, I have always been intensely proud of the way the VoA presented the US to the world, warts and all. Only the BBC world news has as much credibility.
I don’t understand what this is about.
They’re clearly up to something. There Is almost certainly more to it than just Bannonizing the VoA.
As a long time VoA listener, I have always been intensely proud of the way the VoA presented the US to the world, warts and all. Only the BBC world news has as much credibility.
VoA was promoting communist China propaganda; information that wasn't and couldn't be confirmed was presented as facts.
Trump’s Attack on VOA Over COVID-19 Shows Need for New Agency Chief | The Heritage Foundation
By the way, BBC is uber-liberal, left-wing propaganda.
The Trump administration finally realized that the Government has a billion dollar media organization.
One that regularly posts anti-Trump TDS screeds and is a mouthpiece for the Democratic party.
VoA still exists and people still listen to them? Now thats news to me.
I would be very surprised if you ever heard or saw either one. Just because your AM radio says so means nothing.
As the fawning Heritage spin piece noted, VoA reported that the measures taken to flatten the curve in Wuhan were working and were being looked at by authorities all over the world.
Which is true, no matter what stupid label you want to paste on it.
We all know how Trump is “managing” the Covid crisis.
VoA was promoting communist China propaganda; information that wasn't and couldn't be confirmed was presented as facts.
Trump’s Attack on VOA Over COVID-19 Shows Need for New Agency Chief | The Heritage Foundation
By the way, BBC is uber-liberal, left-wing propaganda.
The VOA published a Reuters article about China's recovery from the virus....and that seems to have pissed Trump off. So he gutted the VOA and replaced it with Steve Bannon's boy and a bunch of rightwing bloggers.
In a late night move last Wednesday night, Trump fires VOA chief and replaces her with a Steve Bannon ally.
This looks like a very dangerous move by Trump to take over the American international broadcasting system. A government funded news outlet that's been bi-partisan since WWII. This is really scary stuff. Anyone who thinks Trump is not authoritarian, think again. Not good news for the U.S.
Now this may not look like that much of a big deal to some here, but to me, My father spent 35 years at the VOA and he loved his job. He would be rolling in his grave right about now.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...?id=71280723&usg=AOvVaw16HOQ25yLvjGbfhRO0OMAk
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...or-officials&usg=AOvVaw3IQod8tUGPXzu6ChcVKlKz
Maybe next time the VOA will remember who funds them and stop kow-towing to China's every whim. The VOA has been a tool of the anti-American left for decades. However, it has only been since 2014 that VOA has been allowed to broadcast its leftist government-paid propaganda to Americans. It had been illegal before that.
Maybe next time the VOA will remember who funds them and stop kow-towing to China's every whim. The VOA has been a tool of the anti-American left for decades. However, it has only been since 2014 that VOA has been allowed to broadcast its leftist government-paid propaganda to Americans. It had been illegal before that.
They published a Reuters article about China and the virus. FoxNews publishes Reuters articles all the time...are they the tool of the anti-american left, too?
Anyway, there probably won't be a VOA after Trump is gone. I don't think we'll miss it....but foreigners who depended on the VOA for unbiased news that they can't get in their own countries, might.
Reuters is run by the anti-American left, and has as much credibility as the AP, New York Times, or Washington Post. Which is the same thing as saying, absolutely no credibility whatsoever. All leftist rags are the enemy of the American people, and have been for decades.
The VOA should have been abolished after WW II, but certainly after the fall of the USSR. American propaganda to counter the USSR propaganda was no longer necessary after 1989. Furthermore, all American propaganda broadcast by the VOA was illegal to broadcast within the US. VOA's propaganda could only be broadcast in foreign countries, until 2014 when the law was changed.
The VOA, NPR, and PBS federal funding needs to be abolished. None are within the constitutionally granted powers of Congress. PBS could probably continue to exist with private contributions, but any public funding is unconstitutional and needs to be abolished.
One that regularly posts anti-Trump TDS screeds and is a mouthpiece for the Democratic party.
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