Washington: The Trump administration has suddenly suspended journalists in US-funded broadcasts including Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, allowing them to leave their offices and leave dedication tools in a trick that says that the global media of the US weakens the effects of America.
Hundreds of journalists and other employees in VOA, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and other outlets received a weekend email, stating that they would be stopped from their offices and surrender the press pass, office-affected telephones and other equipment.
Trump, who has already removed the US aid agency and the Department of Education, on Friday issued an executive order to the American agency for the global media “listing the American agency among the elements of the federal bureaucracy, which the President has determined that it is unnecessary.”
Kari Lake, a Firebrand Trump supporter and a former news anchor of Arizona, who was kept in charge of the media agency after losing the bid of the American Senate, wrote – media outlets look after in an email – that the federal grant money “no longer affects the agency’s priorities.”
A White House officer, Harrison Fields took very little legal tone in a post on X, just wrote “goodbye” in 20 languages, a satirical jab in VOA’s multilingual coverage.
The head of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which began broadcasting in the Soviet block during the Cold War, called “a major gift for the enemies of the US” to cancel funding.
Gift to China?
Its president Stephen Capus said in a statement, “Iranian Ayatollah, Chinese communist leaders and Autocrats in Moscow and Minsk will celebrate the death of RFE/RL after 75 years.”
“Handing a win to our opponents will make them strong and America weakened,” he said.
The US-funded media has rebuilt itself since the end of the Cold War, which has been focusing on Russia and China, leaving the programming moving towards the new democratic central and eastern European countries.
Radio Free Asia, established in 1996, sees its mission as providing sensor reporting in countries without free media including China, Myanmar, North Korea and Vietnam.
The outlets have an editorial firewall, which guarantees freedom despite the funds from the US government.
The policy has become some angered around Trump, who has published a long time against the media and in their first term in the office that the outlets funded by the US government should promote their policies.
