Undaunted, US global media chief plows ahead with changes

FILE - In this June 15, 2020, file photo, the Voice of America building stands in Washington. The new chief of U.S. global media is plowing ahead with changes to the Voice of America and other international broadcasters that are heightening concerns about their future as independent news organizations.

Although Agency for Global Media chief executive Michael Pack has assured Congress that VOA and its sister networks will remain independent and pledged he would consult lawmakers on significant developments, last week he initiated personnel changes and began a review of visas for foreign employees.

As those moves were happening, the agency on Thursday publicly boasted of removing the Iranian and North Korean flags from a display at its Washington headquarters, prompting questions about the priorities of its new leadership at a tumultuous time in world events amid rising tensions between the U.S. and China and disputes over how to handle the coronavirus pandemic.

On July 1, seven U.S. senators, including four Republicans who voted for his controversial nomination, sent a letter to Pack expressing concern about the dismissals and possible politicization of AGM. “These actions, which came without any consultation with Congress, let alone notification, raise serious questions about the future of USAGM under your leadership,” they wrote.

’During the confirmation process, I pledged to respect and protect the independence of the USAGM journalists, and I stand by that pledge,” he said. “I also wish to reiterate my firm commitment to honoring the VOA Charter and to supporting the missions of the other USAGM networks and our heroic journalists around the world. As an agency, through accurate and reliable reporting, we have to get the truth to those starved for it.

'...78-year-old former South Carolina Secretary of State James Mills to run the Open Technology Fund...' It's not Mills, it's Miles. Per Wikipedia, in addition to SC SoS, he worked as CoS for Andre 'stray dogs' Bauer when he was SC Lt. Gov; lawyer. That's it

Who is this iconoclast and where does he come from. I thought The Constituton granted the citizens of America a FREE PRESS. It is unfortunate Trump screws with our system of government.

For those that read the article, all this means is they have discovered foreign infiltration(physical and financial) within global media outlets and they’re weeding it out.

FakeNews is losing an inch of their foothold...finally.

Voice of Trump 📻

Here comes the monsters of media😤!

So if you're a wannabe dictator why would you keep propaganda and conspiracy theories limited to InfoWars and OAN, when you can have your very own Lewis Prothero as the Voice of London controlling the flow of 'news'? EnglandPrevails

This is some high level stuff right here. I mean really. How many reading this has ever even heard of Voice Of America? And who has heard of it as a place that tells unbiased news? So again? Who do we believe? The Witch or the Devil? Because I have limited faith in both.

This is funny. Reporting that any journalist reports unbiased news is crazy. The left scandals are not reported on the right is attacked nonstop. The biggest political scandal of all of our lifetime is being ignored by the media. All news media is nothing more than dem propaganda

Voice of America must be hurting Mother Russia too much so Trump’s handler ordered him to dismantle VoA. Smh.

VoA may be 'independent' but it has always been a propaganda outlet. That was its original purpose.

Fuuuck yeah!!! The fake news is dead.

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