[adamsjas]

Of course dropping english allows them to continue their biased, and in many cases out-right anti american broadcasts with out those meddlesome US Citizens listening in.

There are times when the Bush bashing on the VOA rivels the MSM.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

To borrow from Robert McCrum, co-author of "The Story of English," English, which embodies a set of principles, has had a great influence on the world: "In a very real sense it contains, encoded within it, an innate declaration of independence." Or as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher put it, speaking in Washington in 1999, "The values of liberty, a bold sense of adventure and ability to adapt and change are mirrored in this language, four-fifths of whose vocabulary was borrowed from other languages."

I had not known that. Considering that the left as adopted and refined the art of linguistics to replace the meaning of commonly accepted English words, it is now clearer why. Isn't Noam Chomsky a linguistics professor.

[Katya]

It sounds to me that they are finally trimming the bloat at the VOA...What they're not explaining, is that the english language service duplicates on paper what is broadcast into every other language. It's terribly redundant, and the cost of translating was ridiculous. Of course "some" original language pieces should be translated and available in english...but that decision should be made by the department heads. There will still be english broadcasts, but most of the people listening, particularly in countries that do not have a free media, are listening in their native language...not english. They will also still write original broadcasts in english, that will be translated into targeted foreign languages that are broadcast abroad.