Mike Abramowitz, VOA's director, said he and virtually his entire staff of 1,300 people had been put on paid leave.
Abramowitz said that the order left VOA unable to carry out its "vital mission... especially critical today, when America's adversaries, like Iran, China, and Russia, are sinking billions of dollars into creating false narratives to discredit the United States".
The president's order targets VOA's parent company US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which also funds non-profit entities such as Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia, which were originally set up to counter communism.
It tells managers to "reduce performance… to the minimum presence and function required by law".
CBS, the BBC's US news partner, said that VOA employees were notified in an email by Crystal Thomas, the USAGM human resources director.
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/trump-entlasstungen-voice-of-america-100.html
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Ivan is rejoicing
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Hey, Elon actually did something good for once cause right wing dipshits are convinced VOA operate in the USA. Lmao.
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>>1392565 >Radio Free Europe What does RFE do these days, tell Hungary they need to embrace globohomo?
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>>1392580 Why do you people talk about globalism as though it wasn't already implemented decades ago?
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>>1392571 And yet you'll support funneling billions to israel...
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>>1392584 I don't support Israel at all, but don't pretend the Biden administration didn't put even more jews in than Trump did on his first term. Show me a politician that doesn't support Israel that is also viable for election
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>>1392565 The last CEO of NPR was the chief propaganda executive of these organizations
free Europe of Democratic socialism
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tRump doesn't need voice of America anymore as he has his own propagandists. As to radio free America, tRump will tell it to focus its attention on Europe and the socialists there.
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>>1392565 oh no! anyway.....
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>>1392584 On THIS board WE support Israel, toon. Go D&C somewhere else.
You lost the culture war, btw. ;)
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>>1392580 Mainly reports on human rights and imprisoned journalists and corruption in Russia, Kazakhstan, other former USSR states
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I know that no one here is intellectually honest, but let me pose a simple exercise:
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>>1392565 >1,300 people had been put on paid leave. >paid leave All of these NGO employees need to be lined up and paid with a $0.30 bullet to the head.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chinese-state-media-cheer-trumps-decision-axe-voice-america-rcna196663 Chinese state media are celebrating President Donald Trump’s move to gut Voice of America and other U.S. government-funded news outlets that push back against authoritarian regimes.
His executive order Friday dismantling Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and other outlets has been criticized as another blow to longstanding U.S. soft power efforts, amid fears that eroding U.S. influence abroad could create opportunities for governments such as China and Russia to promote their values instead.
The government of China, where media is tightly controlled by the ruling Chinese Communist Party, has long criticized coverage by VOA and other U.S. government-funded news outlets. In an editorial Monday, the state-backed nationalist tabloid Global Times called VOA a “lie factory” with an “appalling track record” when it comes to China-related reporting.
From alleged human rights violations in the Chinese region of Xinjiang to the origins of the coronavirus and Chinese military aggression in the South China Sea, “almost every malicious falsehood about China has VOA’s fingerprints all over it,” the editorial read, calling the news outlet a “frontline propaganda tool.”
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>NONONOOOO YOU NEED TO FUND OUR DEI AND PROPAGANDA INITIATIVES NOOOO
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Why do we need propaganda? We're done trying to convince a bunch of international leftists. We can just take what we want from them by tarriffing the hell out of them and military force.
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>>1393061 >We Who are you pretending to represent?
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>>1392665 Suck my dick, jew
