Several journalists employed by an outlet funded by the U.S. government have found themselves in President Donald Trump's crosshairs, according to a new report.In a Friday article, the New York Times reported that one longtime journalist at Voice of America (VOA) — which is funded by Congress throug...
The whole point of VOA is to create and independent and trusted base to counter propaganda. In order to this it has to report on the bad things about the United States. This was something explicitly considered during it’s creation. The notion that a reporter is undermining the government by reporting critically on it is this absurd. This also very publicly calls into question the editorial independence of VOA.
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The whole point of VOA is to create and independent and trusted base to counter propaganda. In order to this it has to report on the bad things about the United States. This was something explicitly considered during it’s creation. The notion that a reporter is undermining the government by reporting critically on it is this absurd. This also very publicly calls into question the editorial independence of VOA.