Steve HermanAll 550 of VOA’s contract status reporters, editors, videographers, engineers and techs just notified they’re terminated effective end of this month. We don’t distinguish internally between them and regular staff — all are highly skilled and absolutely critical to the operation.
Derick Rethans@w7voa Such vandalism by your current administration. I hope the USA will ever manage to recover from this.
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FediThing 🏳️🌈This can only mean they are shutting VOA down completely? 😬
Catherine McCarthy@w7voa This is all so chilling in so many ways.
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𝙳𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙I first heard VOA on shortwave as a pre-teen in the 1950s. Still an invaluable source. What an utter farce Trump is.
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Carlos SolísIs it possible, or even legal, for the affected employees to form their own independent media network?
Yeah, if they leave the country. Otherwise they're just disaffected alumni./lh
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A character or characters are disgruntled with the way a certain organization or group is run, and (usually after getting kicked out) decide that they will not just start their own, but it'll be better than the original. Generally either ends with the new organization actually being better or, alternately, failing miserably as An Aesop about how some things are harder than they look. Starting your own will often result in an example of We ARE Struggling Together!. Whoever wrote this page was an
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The American people voted for this. All of this.
The American people voted for this. All of this.
Cecilia Mjausson Huster@w7voa I'm so sorry your org is being gutted!
Uncle Slacky@w7voa It's all propaganda anyway, no great loss.
Mike@uncleslacky @w7voa I agree - VOA (and it's sister broadcasters) is propaganda, but surely it's better to have *all* the opposing views available than hear just one source of propaganda, however much we may disagree with those views?
You only need to look at the history of cold war broadcasting to understand how inportant the opposing views were to the world - and that hasn't changed, in fact it's becoming more important.
You only need to look at the history of cold war broadcasting to understand how inportant the opposing views were to the world - and that hasn't changed, in fact it's becoming more important.
Brownian_motion@w7voa If Russia had conquered us militarily and goose-stepped their way into DC on 1/20, how would the first 60 days of the new regime have been any different from this?
More radioactive, less embarrassing./gen
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Kim Possible@w7voa horrible.
KatLS@w7voa This is absolutely insane!