Tag: Radio Free Asia

U.S. Broadcasting Agency Will Not Extend Visas For Its Foreign Journalists

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U.S. Broadcasting Agency Will Not Extend Visas For Its Foreign Journalists

The foreign journalists affected by the visa decision are particularly valued for their language skills, which are crucial to VOA’s mission as an international broadcaster covering news in many countries that do not have a free or robust press. One VOA journalist, who asked not to be named because of a fear of retaliation, said it could lead to the departure of more than 100 staffers in the foreign language services.

Trump and Steve Bannon want to turn a US-funded global media network into Breitbart 2.0

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Trump and Steve Bannon want to turn a US-funded global media network into Breitbart 2.0

But Steve Bannon, who was deeply involved with getting Trump to nominate his ally Michael Pack, sees the ousters as a reckoning for an agency that he believes has been too soft on covering China.

“We are going hard on the charge,” Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist and executive chairman of Breitbart, told me. “Pack’s over there to clean house.”

President Trump pushes for new VOA leadership

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Urged by President Trump, Senate pushes to install conservative filmmaker to run Voice of America

A Washington-based filmmaker, Pack has collaborated on movies with Bannon, a former head of Breitbart News, and produced and directed a documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.” His nomination has been backed by a cadre of powerful conservative activists and groups, including the Heritage Foundation, former Sen. Jim DeMint and Jerome Corsi, the political commentator and conspiracy theorist.

Government Propaganda Outlet Funds Electronic Frontier Foundation #RadioFreeAsia #VoiceOfAmerica #SmithMundt

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Article by Rachael Tackett   Much heralded in the media, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is depicted as championing digital civil liberties and fighting the US government’s mass surveillance. EFF also receives money from the same government that it claims to fight. The Saga of Radio Free Asia In the early 1950s, Radio Free Asia…
— Read on diycivics.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/government-propaganda-outlet-funds-electronic-frontier-foundation/

Radio Free Asia (or Radio Free-Anything), and Voice of America (VOA) are propaganda, paid for by the US Government.