Judge rules against Trump's global media chief after firings

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Judge rules against Trump global media chief after firings

We’re still talking about President Trump’s delusions because Republicans are indulging them, plus more from the week in Opinion.was filed last month in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by five executives who had been fired or suspended. They accused Pack and his senior advisors of violating the statutory firewall intended to protect the news organizations from political interference.

After the suit was filed, Pack announced he had rescinded the firewall rule issued by the Broadcasting Board of Governors. In a statement posted on his agency’s website, he said the rule wrongly prohibited him from directing broadcast operations and “made the agency difficult to manage.”In her ruling late Friday, Judge Beryl A.

In July, Pack ordered an investigation into the posting of a video package featuring Joe Biden, now the president-elect, on a VOA website. He called the segment “pro-Biden” and said his staff was weighing disciplinary action against those responsible.including the dismissal of foreign journalists and his comments denigrating VOA staff, which they said were endangering their colleagues and the international broadcaster’s credibility.

“The court confirmed that the First Amendment forbids Mr. Pack and his team from attempting to take control of these journalistic outlets, from investigating their journalists for purported ‘bias,’ and from attempting to influence or control their reporting content,” Lee Crain, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in a statement.The global media agency did not immediately respond to a written request for comment on the ruling.

VOA was founded during World War II. Its congressional charter requires it to present independent news and information to international audiences.

 

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