President Trump goes to the intestinal voice of America
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to beat the voice of America. The plan largely seems to dismantle the media outlet funded by the government, as well as programs such as Radiofree Europe and Radio Liberty.
“This order continues the reduction in the elements of the federal bureaucracy that the president has established are not necessary” the orderreleased on Friday.
In response to Het Nieuws, Group Activist Group the Commission to protect journalists Close the order As a ‘scandalous’ and called on the members of the congress to defend VOA.
“It is outrageous that the White House tries to intestine the agency funded by the congress to support independent journalism that challenges stories from authoritarian regimes around the world,” said Carlos Martinez de la Serna, program director of CPJ. “We call on congress leaders to protect this critical agency, which offers uncensored news in countries where the press is limited.”
VOA, which has served a training field for generations of journalists since 1942, is operated through the American Bureau for Global Media. The outlet works in more than 40 languages, in a mission to bring ‘accurate, objective news item from the US and the whole world’, according to the organization website.
The executive order states that the aforementioned agencies, which also include the US Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Federal Mediation and CospatiVering Service, “the performance of their legal action and associated staff must be reduced to the minimum of their statutory functions and associated actions and associated. “Reduce.”
