One America News, the amateurish far-right TV outlet best known for promoting Trump’s 2020 election lies, is going to provide “newsfeed services” to VOA and other US-funded international broadcasters, Kari Lake says.
It's a big step toward turning the Voice of America into the Voice of Trump.
MAGA outlet OAN to provide content for hollowed-out Voice of America, says Kari Lake | CNN Business
Having access to OAN content is a big step toward turning the Voice of America into the Voice of Trump — an outcome that VOA staffers have feared.
VOA's networks are currently offline, but a handful of employees were called back to work on Tuesday. Staffers sense that Kari Lake wants to reboot VOA as a shell of its former self – to terminate most employees but keep enough of VOA intact to satisfy the judges who are scrutinizing the shutdown.
Patsy Widakuswara and Jessica Jerreat, two of the sidelined journalists who are suing to save VOA, reacted to the OAN "newsfeed" deal by saying, "Congress mandated VOA to report reliable and authoritative news, not to outsource its journalism to outlets aligned with the president's agenda."
"VOA already has talented and professional journalists ready to tell America’s story in line with the VOA Charter, but we are blocked from our own newsroom," Widakuswara and Jerreat said. "That is why we will continue fighting for our rights in court."
One America News began, and is, a Russian propaganda outlet.
"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves." ~ Eric Hoffer
Hoffer was an American philosopher and social critic.
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Horrible.
Distributing OAN’s Trump propaganda through Voice of America is extremely bad. It paints us as the nation of Trump, replacing our brand image of truth and justice. It damages us in ways that will be hard to repair.
Ahh ... nice ... Trumps very own "RT" 🫠
It'll last past DonOld's life, so everyone needs to start seeing him as just a face on a group who has no principles.
I guarantee it'll be full of commercials promoting Trump tat.
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North Korea is so proud
I'd think the charter of VOA doesn't allow for the executive to micromanage it in that way. So likely another legal contest if they try that shit.
What else did we expect from these placeholder stooges?
We don’t know who the fuck is calling the shots.
