Michael Packman, CEO and Pres. of Voice of America.
I've blogged about how many statist, taxpayer funded broadcast outlets, with the Beeb and US PBS topping the list of shame. They actually began quite evenhandedly as to politics, initially garnering such support. Still largely enjoy this attachment to the public teat. But the public is hardly all left wing. Yet over the past decades, with newer staffers from journalism schools, holding degrees in hand from the ueber leftie academy,----well, just look and listen these days.As a life long Extra Class Radio Amateur, as well as an avid listener to short wave broadcasts, I've seen lots of propaganda, both right and left, on the air waves. The charter of VOA includes language about supporting the policies of the USA. Same with their own charters for other international stations.
This Trump appointment was also at the helm of PBS, so be knows a little about bias in the media. He's letting go a few such biased staffers at the VOA---long overdue.
Elections have consequences, in lots of directions.
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VOA was a preferred choice by English teachers worldwide and it was approved by counties such as Korea, Japan, India, and China among many more. Until Trump appointed Michael Pack (not Packman as stated) as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which among other things oversees the Voice of America (VOA). After Pack was investigated for transferring millions of dollars into his own company from Global media, VOA lost a vast international audience, more likely because Pack is a Trump yes man.
If you have an open mind rather than having a fixed narrow mind, you would find mainstream radio broadcasts are usually far less biased than FOX, CNN etc etc.
I really fail to understand why people are so strung up on whats left wing, Right wing.
A good view/idea should not be ignored because it comes from a direction one doesn't pay into.
And one should not listen to a single source to make up ones mind
But of course, the far left and far right refuses to even conceder any source other than their biased and fake own sources.
The same principle applies if you go too far left, of course.