Washington Publish: “Late Friday, Trump issued an govt order that directed VOA and an array of federal places of work to ‘be eradicated to the utmost extent per relevant regulation.’ About 1,000 journalists had been positioned on indefinite go away. Those that confirmed as much as work to broadcast their applications had been locked out of the constructing.”
“It wasn’t precisely what Kari Lake was planning. The onetime candidate for Arizona governor and U.S. Senate whom Trump tapped to guide VOA had, like different MAGA loyalists, eagerly sought a job within the new administration…”
“However the fast tempo of occasions in current days reveals that Trump’s marketing campaign to dismantle the federal forms and management U.S.-backed information content material throughout the globe has successfully gutted VOA, probably forcing it to go darkish for the primary time because it launched throughout World Battle II.”
Axios: Trump guts government-funded media shops.
