Steve HermanStatement from VOA
fathermucker@w7voa That's a pretty weak statement, don't you think?
Dr. Fortyseven ◣ ◥◣ ◥ 🥃@w7voa Out of all the people I follow for news, I've always held (and will continue to hold) your reporting on events in the highest regard. To me, this is the surest sign yet of how disingenuous these suspensions are.
Maxx@w7voa I hope you move here permanently.
Ellis Berry@w7voa It's pretty pathetic at a societal level that a singular person can so thoroughly disrupt so much of #journalism
Elen Snyder@w7voa
We’ve got your back
We’ve got your back
John Mastodon@w7voa
Steve;
I know nothing. So perhaps I am making a faux pas... But here goes...
If your quote of the statement from VOA was text, instead of a picture it would be much more engageable. Like translateable and machine readable for assistive technologies.
Also, a link to the source would be good to make verification easy. But perhaps this was not published.
Thanks for reading. The intent was helpful.
NorzN 🇺🇦@n00b
The source apparently is an email, quoted in the article linked to here :
RE: https://journa.host/users/w7voa/statuses/109521752016200437
The source apparently is an email, quoted in the article linked to here :
RE: https://journa.host/users/w7voa/statuses/109521752016200437
Steve Herman (@[email protected])
Updated VOA News story on my suspension from #Twitter: https://www.voanews.com/a/voa-journalist-among-media-suspended-on-twitter/6878934.html
Caitlin Howard@w7voa I'm so sorry. I was horrified to see it happen. Musk isn't thinking rationally.
Henry Sinha@w7voa Time for VOA to start their own Mastodon instance!
Chris Trottier@w7voa And what will happen if your account doesn't get re-instated?
Lance Taylor 💾@atomicpoet @w7voa LIBERTAD! LIBERTAD! LIBERTAD! Eeeeeeeelllloooonnn.
Scarface (1983) - LIBERTAD! LIBERTAD! LIBERTAD!
Patrick deHahn@w7voa man, this sucks.
Ted Spence@w7voa It's so cute when people treat Lone Skum like a non-fascist
Marsha@w7voa High journalistic standards is probably what set Elmo off
Graham Williams@w7voa any chance you could get a more mobile friendly screenshot of that quote? It’s awfully hard to read.
nadezhda@w7voa Sorry you got caught up in the journalist suspension temper tantrum. Would you be so kind as to repost the VOA statement with ALT text for folks who use screen readers? Thanks
Zack@w7voa I'd like it more if VOA just made their own Mastodon instance and ceased posting on Twitter.
Twitter is going down. It's on its way to being Gab, and the sooner media and users leave, the sooner we can be rid of it and the newly unbanned nazis it hosts getting attention.
Sydney@w7voa we found you here; will look for you on Post. Not sure what’s going to happen but I’m taking steps to close down my personal account over this. No one in the US gets to ban a journalist unless they did something truly horrific. Neither you nor the other reporters did anything wrong. For a supposedly smart man, Musk has been doing some really dumb stuff. I’m wondering how many advertisers and good accounts he loses in the next 7 days.
Lesley Carhart 
@w7voa VOA seems… uniquely positioned to take no crap on this…
souterrain@hacks4pancakes @w7voa perhaps VOA will increase shortwave broadcasting as a result.
Who am I kidding? It's a nice dream though.
Who am I kidding? It's a nice dream though.
Paul Tenny@w7voa just fyi that image is completely unreadable on a phone.
Text in screenshot (via OCR) :
“#VoiceofAmerica can confirm that at approximately 9:00 p.m. this evening, #Twitter suspended the account of Chief National Correspondent #SteveHerman. Later in the evening he received additional notification of the permanent suspension of his account Mr. Herman is a seasoned reporter who upholds the highest journalistic standards and uses the social media platform as news gathering and networking tool. Mr. Herman has received no information from Twitter as to why his account was suspended.
As Chief National Correspondent Mr. Herman covers international and national news stories and this suspension impedes his ability to perform his duties as a journalist.
We request that Mr. Herman's account be reinstated along with an explanation from Twitter for the suspension.”
“#VoiceofAmerica can confirm that at approximately 9:00 p.m. this evening, #Twitter suspended the account of Chief National Correspondent #SteveHerman. Later in the evening he received additional notification of the permanent suspension of his account Mr. Herman is a seasoned reporter who upholds the highest journalistic standards and uses the social media platform as news gathering and networking tool. Mr. Herman has received no information from Twitter as to why his account was suspended.
As Chief National Correspondent Mr. Herman covers international and national news stories and this suspension impedes his ability to perform his duties as a journalist.
We request that Mr. Herman's account be reinstated along with an explanation from Twitter for the suspension.”
Daniel@w7voa it is because Musk has decided his playground, his rules, free speech for him and no one else
BlueDot🇺🇦@w7voa Requesting reinstatement is precisely the wrong response. Now that Twitter literally welcomes Nazis, any news organization that values its reputation should get off Twitter and stay off.
TQdemocrat@w7voa Steve are you really surprised by the actions of Musk? I understand your disappointment by his tactics, but you can't be surprised.