Sweeping Changes At Voice of America

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After two years of waiting, President Trump’s pick to lead the agency that oversees Voice of America, Michael Pack, was finally approved recently. Pack showed up to the office this week and cleaned house.

Pack fired the chiefs of the broadcast networks for foreign audiences, including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; Radio Free Asia; Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which oversees Radio and Television Martí; and Middle East Broadcasting Networks, which runs Alhurra and Radio Sawa. Two top officials at V.O.A. resigned knowing Trump’s pick was on the way. Pack also dissolved the advisory boards over each of the networks and moved his own people in.

President Trump has claimed that Voice of America has been a propaganda arm of China, especially when is came to COVID-19. Earlier this year The White House put out a statement that said, “VOA too often speaks for America’s adversaries—not its citizens.”

Voice of America was created during World War II to generate news about the war to people in countries under German occupation. It’s intended to project American values around the world, however, like everything else today, it has become a political football.

5 COMMENTS

  1. Voice of America should be none political and non biased run by people whom have a love for radio and not a failure of an agenda like the sitting potus.

    • Absolutely Agree Dave. Media today support our adversaries, not representative of america but rather the tearing down of society. Sick of the idiotic Trump bashing and the constant lies. American radio nothing more than a propaganda wing for the left. And true americans are no longer buying it…or the products that buy into it.

      • American radio nothing more than a propaganda wing for the left?
        Nothing could be further from the truth. If you go to radio row at the political conventions you’ll see many shows broadcasting live. With the exception of NPR, Pacifica, a few African American stations and a handful of independent stations, people broadcasting live are overwhelmingly conservative. Non conservatives like Howard Stern and Joe Madison have been pushed to Sirius, retired or otherwise have been pushed off over the air broadcasting

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