Voice of America, an international news group funded by the US that was filled in by the Trump government in March, may sound very different when it returns to the air.
Kari Lake, the former news anchor that President Trump led the voice of America’s voice, said on Tuesday that it would be fed with content of A news network of America, Or Oan, a reliable Pro-Trump television channel that has promoted untruths about the 2020 presidential election.
Mrs. Lake, who has installed non-successful campaigns for Governor and Senator in Arizona in recent years, said that OAN had offered to provide free news items to Voice of America and another outlet, the outlet, the outlet supported by the American Office of Cuba Broadcasting. In one rack On social media she called the scheme ‘a huge advantage for the American taxpayer’.
“I have no editorial control over the content of VOA and OCB programming, but I can ensure that our points of sale have reliable and credible options while they work to make their reporting and news programs,” said Mrs. Lake, with the help of Acronyms for Voice of America and the office of Cuba Broadcasting.
Patsy Widakuswara, a former voice of the white house office of the Voice of America that was placed on leave, said she was worried about the development.
“We worked so hard to build trust for our brand,” she said. “This is 83 years of good journalism that will be destroyed.”
Voice of America was founded in 1942 to fight Nazi propaganda and has long brought news to the corners of the world where reliable journalism is scarce.
In March, Mr. Trump issued an executive order To dismantle the American agency for global mediaThe Congress Chartered Bureau that supervises Voice of America, which means that the news output is effectively closed. The president accused the broadcaster of the innaclementness against him and noticed the ‘voice of Radical America’. Voice of America’s Around 1,300 employees were sent home.
The journalists of the broadcaster then complained and said that Mr. Trump was not authorized to withdraw the financing approved by the congress.
A federal judge in Washington chose the side of the reporters and ordered the Trump administration to reduce programming.
A professional panel seemed to be more difficult for the case at the weekend, Reverse parts of the order of the lower court This required the Trump government to restore the financing. But the panel left the requirement that the voice of America is breathing new life.
It is not clear how many Voice of America Reports will return after the court’s decisions.
“Some have already returned,” said Mrs. Lake on Tuesday evening in an e -mail. “Some will return in the future.”
She refused to comment further.
About 15 employees have recovered in recent days, said Mrs. Widakuswara, who was not one of them.
Grant Turner, who served as Chief Executive of Voice of America’s parent agency during the first Trump administration, said the steps to add Oan -content a violation of a legal requirement that the broadcaster is ‘accurate, objective and extensive’.
He predicted that the OAN content would not land well with the foreign public.
“They know how really fake news sounds,” Mr Turner said about the listeners of Voice of America and added: “They want something that is real.”
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