Posted on 06/15/2020 10:47:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett and her deputy Sandra Sugawara jointly quit on Monday following sharp criticism from President Donald Trump and the confirmation of his ally, Michael Pack, as the new head of the organization which oversees the US media outlet.
The state-funded broadcaster is directed at audiences outside the US and produces news in 47 languages.
Bennett and Sugawara said Pack has the right to name his own team of leaders as he prepares to take the reins at the US Agency for Global Media. The two veteran journalists did not address the conflict with Trump, which saw the White House accuse VOA of promoting foreign propaganda. […]
Pack, a one-time associate to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, has been proposed for the position by President Trump. The Senate confirmed Pack earlier this month despite resistance from Democratic lawmakers.
Some Trump aides have long viewed VOA as an element of a “deep state,” according to the AP news agency. However, the conflict between Trump’s aides and VOA went public in April, when Trump’s social media adviser Dan Scavino slammed a Twitter post by VOA as “China’s very own propaganda” and a “DISGRACE!!!” …
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Good!
Amanda and Sugawara get the fk out !
get rid of all the traitors at VOA.
You got that right !
Since it is now infested as is all the DeepState, get rid of it entirely.
We always knew that the VOA produced propaganda, and very often blatantly misrepresented our country. By the mid 1990s, most cultural depiction was eliminated to give the impression that America was 95% Rock 'n Roll culture.
We discovered that even the liberal BBC had more comprehensive reporting about happenings in the USA than did the VOA. This was true even on issues like the immigration crisis at our southern border. To hear a decent array of reporting about my own country, the USA, I had to move between the BBC, Radio Netherlands, and Deutsche Wella (Germany). I would give details about all of this to our federal representatives.
Radio Australia was much more interesting than VOA in folk entertainment. We used to listen to an An American educated Russian or Ukrainian humorist on Radio Moscow early on Sunday mornings.
The VOA was not really the voice of America. It was, and is propaganda of the elite left.
If you can't eliminate them, control them (from within)
Same goes for the Department of Education. If you can't eliminate it, use is as a weapon. Use it to wipe out the Marxists in Education, and the Anti-American propaganda they spew. Bring back History and Civics. Bring back the pledge of Allegiance. Don't like it? Lose all federal funding. This is what the Left does. You want to destroy the Left? Use their tactics against them. Trump is doing it, and it works.
Thanks for the first-hand report!
“The Senate confirmed Pack earlier this month despite resistance from Democratic lawmakers.”
Excellent!
Yes! Now do NPR. :)
One cannot espouse Socialism and also devote ones mission to the support and preserving of the U.S. Constitution.
We need to enforce this across the Federal government. Let the pigs squeal.
Excellent...clean out Democrat scum.
Does Trump not understand how Bannon is working to undermine him?
Having followed the history of VOA from its inception during WWII until today, I have always been amazed at what a pit of Leftism it became. Joseph McCarthy, even then, was vilified for calling it out.
I am going to guess both of these people were Leftists, without reading the article. Now I will take a look.
"..."One of the big differences between publicly-funded independent media, like the Voice of America, and state-controlled media is that we are free to show all sides of an issue and are actually mandated to do so by law," she wrote..."
If they showed all sides of an issue, we might accept that BS. I have never listened to VOA, but I'll bet they don't.
Furthermore, the VOA was not meant to be an "impartial news source". It was meant to be a truthful news source, and even more so, to spread the message of the good that a Constitutional Republic like the United States is capable of, to give hope to people around the world, and we pay our tax dollars to do that, not to provide them with an America-hating news outlet that listeners can tune into on their own dime.
Yep. So you know. You understand it well.
Joseph McCarthy was pilloried for taking VOA to task for carrying anti-American and pro-Communist propaganda in their overseas offices for people to take away with them.
And the Leftist’s arguments were the same back then.
The cleansing of that leftist Augean stable has been long overdue.
If the intent is to copy/paste/broadcast Chinese propaganda, you can task two interns that work for free
Why is it ALWAYS women? I’m embarrassed for my gender.
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