The Trump government has completely dismantled a federally funded media giant who crashed it as 'radical propaganda'.
On Friday, the President signed an executive order that orders the dismantling of seven federal agencies, including the American Bureau for Global Media – which serves as the parent of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
As a result, around 1,300 journalists, producers and support staff were suddenly unemployed – showing many on Saturday to discover that they were locked up from the studios according to NPR.
Those employees then discovered that they had received e -mails who had told them that their duties were terminated, but they will continue to receive full wage and benefits until they are otherwise mentioned.
The White House now says that the executive order “will ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda.”
The American Bureau for Global Media and Kari Lake, who appointed Trump to serve as a voice of America in December, released a statement in the same way on Saturday stating that the agency is 'not red -handed'.
“From top to bottom, this agency is a huge rot and a burden for the American taxpayer – a national security risk for the nation – and irreparably broken,” Fox News reports.
“Although there are clear places within the desk with personnel who are talented and dedicated officials, this is the exception than the rule.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive command on Friday the American Bureau of Worldwide Media
The American Global Media Office serves as the parent of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
A substitute spokesperson for the White House also celebrated the end of the desk and placed 'Goodbye' in 20 languages ​​about a story about what Voice of America refused to mention Hamas terrorists after the attack of 7 October 2023 on Israel.
Elon Musk, whose department of the efficiency of the government has taken out federal agencies, also wrote about the end of the American Bureau of Worldwide Media.
“While closing this global government propaganda office, it was temporarily renamed the Ministry of Propaganda Everywhere (Dope),” he joked about his X platform.
The American Global Media Office was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda. The broadcasters and their sister networks that cover the Middle East and Cuba now reach 420 million people in 63 languages ​​and more than 100 countries per week.
The aim is to deliver news and cultural programming to places where a free press is threatened or does not exist, with Radiofree Europe/Radio Liberty broadcast in Eastern Europe -including in Russia and Ukraine, and RadioFree Asia broadcasts in China and North Korea.
Managers at the network and fans of his broadcasts have argued that it plays an important role in American diplomacy.
US Agency for Global Media and Kari Lake (photo), who appointed Trump to serve as a voice of America in December, has issued a statement on Saturday stating that the agency is 'not edited'
“I am deeply sad that the legendary voice of America is being silenced for the first time in 83 years,” Michael Abramowitz, the director of VOA, posted on LinkedIn, with the argument that it played an important role “in the fight for freedom and democracy around the world.”
Steve Capus, the president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, also told NPR: 'The cancellation of the subsidy agreement of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty would be a huge gift for American enemies.
“The Iranian Ayatollahs, Chinese communist leaders and autocrats in Moscow and Minsk would celebrate the fall of RFE/RL after 75 years,” he claimed. “The handing over of our opponents would make them stronger and America weaker.”
President of the National Press Club in Washington Mike Balsamo discussed the cuts in the same way at the agency and said that it undermines the dedication of America to a free and independent press.
“For decades, Voice of America has delivered to the public -based independent journalism worldwide to the public, often in places where freedom of press does not exist,” he said.
But critics have claimed that the Voice of America Hamas 'remediated' when the managers told employees that they 'avoid' and its members to avoid terrorists, except in quotes. '
Subsequently, it was again on fire in January when an article failed to note that residents in Gaza Hamas were celebrating the terrorist group of death boxes with the remains of Israeli hostages – including two children.
'Let's rectify the facts: Hamas paraded the dead bodies of innocent Israelis, including two children, for cheering crowds,' Huis Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida, said the national assessment at the time.
“American taxpayers are not allowed to pay the salaries of Hamas apologets that sprout terrorist propaganda.”
The American Global Media Office was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda. The broadcasters and their sister networks that cover the Middle East and Cuba now reach 420 million people in 63 languages ​​and more than 100 countries per week
Voice of America was also criticized earlier when it led an article in 2020 that asked: “What is” white privilege “and who helps it?” As well as a story and a video that the Hunter Biden -laptop scandal tried in the days before the 2020 presidential elections.
It even received some return from a part of his own, when a former reporter at Voice of America hit the outlet in an OP-ED for the Washington Times.
“I checked and concluded the bureaucracy of the agency together with many of its reporters that it has essentially become a rogue operation filled by Hubris, which often reflects a left -wing bias, tailored to partisely national media,” wrote Robinson in November.
“It has tried to prevent the violations of journalistic standards and maladministration,” he continued, with the argument that “taxpayers have certainly not received $ 950 million in recent years (the Biden -Administration 2024 budget request for USAGM) to the responsibility and transparency of USAGM and VOA.”
Elon Musk, whose department of the efficiency of the government has taken out federal agencies, also wrote about the end of the American Bureau of Worldwide Media. Musk is depicted here with his son on Friday
It now seems that the cutbacks on the USAGM for weeks are planned, because three employees were camping for Doge at the agency, according to NPR access to his budget, social media and other activities.
The USAGM also has previously retained Radio Free Asia that was needed to meet the payroll, while freelancers told NPR that they have not been paid since last month after the assistants who were assigned to USAGM by Doge froze their money.
Doge has also declared the war against NPR and PBS, both of which were also financed by the federal.
In two letters sent to the CEOs of the points of sale last month – Katherine Maher and Paula Kerger – Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Doge Subcommissie chairman, called them to testify on Capitol Hill to defend the government financing they use to “Systematically Barrf of Contemporary Content.”
Greene said that the department intends to tackle its concerns about the 'flagrant ideological and part -time coverage' of the station during the hearing, planned for the week of March 3 or March 24.
In each letter, the subcommittee gave examples of 'bias' reports of both NPR and PBS against Musk, and also mentioned NPR's decision not to report on Hunter's laptop scandal.
At the same time, the Trump government has deposited the Associated Press from the White House press bath because of the refusal to refer to a southern water body as the 'Gulf of America' instead of the 'Gulf of Mexico'.
The president labeled the 177-year-old publication agency 'Radical Left'.
“Well, we're going to call the photos now,” said Trump.
“AP has been terrible. I think they are radical about it. I think they are third reporters, “he went on.
'I know the person, that specific young lady who works in the account, is terrible. She is a radical left crazy, as far as I'm concerned. '
