Trump takes over Voice of America.

[JimL]

Top officials at VOA forced to resign as trump turns Americas Global Media Organization into personal propaganda outlet. Appointed to head the organization is Michael Pack a conservative film producer who immediately fired the entire board of Global Media.

http://www.latimes.com/world-nation/...id-trump-clash

Any of you conservative Trumpsters getting the picture yet?

[shunyadragon]

Top officials at VOA forced to resign as trump turns Americas Global Media Organization into personal propaganda outlet. Appointed to head the organization is Michael Pack a conservative film producer who immediately fired the entire board of Global Media.

http://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/media-...ign/index.html

Any of you conservative Trumpsters getting the picture yet?

Hopefully this will end in about 7 months.

[JimL]

Hopefully this will end in about 7 months.

Hopefully, but it is a scary thing that a good portion of the country has eyes and ears but can't see or understand.

[KingsGambit]

Voice of America was created to be a propaganda outlet in the first place, right?

[JimL]

Voice of America was created to be a propaganda outlet in the first place, right?

Not if you consider speaking truth to be propaganda.

[Cow Poke]

Voice of America was created to be a propaganda outlet in the first place, right?

Yes, The Voice of America was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda.

[Whateverman]

Top officials at VOA forced to resign as trump turns Americas Global Media Organization into personal propaganda outlet. Appointed to head the organization is Michael Pack a conservative film producer who immediately fired the entire board of Global Media.

http://www.latimes.com/world-nation/...id-trump-clash

I'd actually never heard about the VOA before today, which is a bit embarrassing.

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If there's one thing I regret about the Republican Trump administration, it's that they've normalized playing dirty; it's now OK to push aside American / democratic / civilized values if doing-so benefits your party politically. I can't imagine that if Democrats take control of the federal government, they'll hold back reversing all this Trumpian • Edited by a Moderator •. They'll go for it, and they'll probably institute their own brand of the same thing.

Republicans have ruined the political landscape for the next half-century.

ps. and to be clear, I know this kind of stuff has been going on for a long time. The difference is that it's now out in the open, and there appears to be no ethical or legal or patriotic standard to keep it in-check.

[mikewhitney]

I'd actually never heard about the VOA before today, which is a bit embarrassing.

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If there's one thing I regret about the Republican Trump administration, it's that they've normalized playing dirty; it's now OK to push aside American / democratic / civilized values if doing-so benefits your party politically. I can't imagine that if Democrats take control of the federal government, they'll hold back reversing all this Trumpian • Edited by a Moderator • They'll go for it, and they'll probably institute their own brand of the same thing.

Republicans have ruined the political landscape for the next half-century.

ps. and to be clear, I know this kind of stuff has been going on for a long time. The difference is that it's now out in the open, and there appears to be no ethical or legal or patriotic standard to keep it in-check.

Ah. I think you finally understand something while failing to fully express it. The media has been covering up a whole mess of corruption for at least 50 years, if not for more, like a 100 years. I cannot tell what is true these days in the media because they are fully hyped up against America and Trump right now. It seems even the hype is designed to divide the country rather than to inform it. An example we just had was where it was said the police (or their families), even if going to prison for some of this stuff, would get pensions. This point about pensions adds fuel to the fire of anyone rioting due to the deaths of certain people.

[Sparko]

Not if you consider speaking truth to be propaganda.

So then you have no problem with the change of leadership.

[Whateverman]

Ah. I think you finally understand something while failing to fully express it. The media has been covering up a whole mess of corruption for at least 50 years

No, it hasn't. You have no credible information to the contrary, too.

[JimL]

So then you have no problem with the change of leadership.

Trump isn't credible, which i think you ought well know by now, and neither are any of the loyalist minions, such as conservative film making propagandists, that he puts in places of power.

[Leonhard]

Yes, The Voice of America was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda.

That's a loooong time to reach back for for glory. That's three generations and nine presidents. I have a feeling it isn't run by the people who started it. If it is, then that's very impressive.

[Cow Poke]

That's a loooong time to reach back for for glory. That's three generations and nine presidents. I have a feeling it isn't run by the people who started it. If it is, then that's very impressive.

I would imagine each administration had their hands in the cookie jar.

[Leonhard]

I would imagine each administration had their hands in the cookie jar.

I still don't believe those people who worked during WWII received an annointment from Heaven of some kind. It is nice as a backstory, but you gotta agree with me that it doesn't mean that this is what it is today.

[Leonhard]

Should also be noted I don't know Voice of America and have no opinion about them.