Posted on 03/15/2025 2:10:35 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump's administration on Saturday put journalists at Voice of America and other US-funded broadcasters on leave, abruptly freezing outlets long seen as critical to countering a Russian and Chinese information offensive.
Hundreds of reporters and other staff at VOA, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and other outlets received a weekend email saying they will be barred from their offices and should surrender press passes, office-issued telephones and other equipment.
Trump, who has already eviscerated the US aid agency and Education Department, on Friday issued an executive order listing the US Agency for Global Media as among "elements of the federal bureaucracy that the president has determined are unnecessary."
Kari Lake, a firebrand Trump supporter and former Arizona news anchor who was put in charge of the media agency after she lost a US Senate bid, wrote -- in an email to media outlets she supervises -- that federal grant money "no longer effectuates agency priorities."
A White House press official, Harrison Fields, took a much less legalistic tone in a post on X, simply writing "goodbye" in 20 languages, a sarcastic jab at VOA's multilingual coverage.
The head of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which started broadcasting into the Soviet bloc during the Cold War, called the cancellation of funding "a massive gift to America's enemies."
"The Iranian ayatollahs, Chinese communist leaders, and autocrats in Moscow and Minsk would celebrate the demise of RFE/RL after 75 years," its president, Stephen Capus, said in a statement.
"Handing our adversaries a win would make them stronger and America weaker," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Communist, anti American reporters hardest hit.
The left-wing propaganda just oozes from this article.
That’s a good start. Waiting for NPR and PBS
They were not reporting the free ideals and western message. They were reporting globalist tyranny and woke propaganda 24/7.
In reality by doing this Trump has actually increased the image of America as beacon of freedom because the propaganda media pushing ugly ideology of Marxist woke socialism as been shut down.
Obama/Biden judge to issue injunction countermanding Trump’s order in 3-2-1...
Excellent.
This is how you crush the left.
Hopefully the administration will respond to the judge’s order with FAFO in twenty languages.
Lol.
It has always been a CIA front. It made sense when they were broadcasting programming behind the iron curtain. But in the age of the internet... it’s a retarded backwater. Morse code has been retired, and most nations have ended their national shortwave radio programs that used to be super popular.
VOA should have been ended LONG ago. This is especially true since they are consistently swamp as badly as USAID.
Good riddance to what has become nothing but left-wing and globalist propaganda.
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It is very easy to see if it is good or bad thing looking at who is upset by it.
Don’t just freeze them
Eliminate the whole agencies.
Radio Free Europe - REM
Decide yourself if radio’s gonna stay
Reason it could polish up the gray
Put that, put that, put that up your wall
That this isn’t country at all
Radio station decide yourself
Keep me out of country and the word
Wheel of fortune’s leading us absurd
Push that, push that, push that to the floor
That this isn’t nothing at all
Straight off the boat, where to go
Calling out in transit
Calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe (Radio)
Decide defy the media too fast
Instead of pushing palaces to fall
Put that, put that, put that up your wall
That this isn’t fortunate at all
Radio station decide yourself
We’re calling out in transit
Calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe (Radio)
Decide yourself come in on a boat
Media’s too fast
Keep me out of country and the word
Disappointment into us absurd
Straight off the boat, where to go
Calling out in transit
Calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe
Calling out in transit
Calling out in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe
I hope he freezes the radio stations Soros is buying up too:
https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/george-soros-taking-shortcut-to-buy-200-us-radio-stations-fcc-commissioner-says-commissioner-brendan-carr-of-the-federal-communications-commission-democratic-dem-influence-billionaire-foreign-money-transaction-nick-langworthy-house-committee-media
Yes. It was a big issue in the day of Joseph McCarthy, as the VOA organizations around the world also had libraries, and they had a heavy load of pro-communist literature in them.
McCarthy had a major issue with this, and for good reason. The Left attacked McCarthy for his opposition to this as censorship and book burning.
McCarthy rightly maintained he wasn’t banning any books and had no intention of doing so, but he felt that a government organization such as VOA, funded by taxpayer dollars in order to spread the ideas of Democracy, Freedom, Human Rights, Capitalism and Free Markets to areas that were under the iron fist of Communists, should not have ANY pro-Communist or pro-Socialist materials.
I will bet money that the messages being sent out on VOA today are as Leftist, pro-communist and pro-globalist as can be found anywhere, and far worse than what Joseph McCarthy ever had to fight against. I’ll bet it is all right out in the open, unapologetic, and in your face.
Just another channel for spreading Leftism.
I love this unapologetic approach to eliminating things that are harmful to this country. I wan't more of it, spread over and accepted by as wide a spectrum of the American Citizenry as we can make it.
Bye bye commies
Maybe we used to counter China and Russia propaganda but now it seems most government employees? Are woke so I am sure they are helping those two countries
Yes. And the truth is, VOA is not needed now as it was in 1952. Hell, Al Jazeera has more truth in on occasion than can be found in American Media.
People under the thumb of a tyrannical regime have ways of getting information today that were undreamed of in 1952.
It isn’t needed. We can’t afford it. It sends Leftist messages world wide to friends and foes.
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