Michael Pack, the new chief executive of the agency that oversees Voice Of America and other government-funded broadcast outlets, said that he implementing new policies to ensure that editorials th…
and other government-funded broadcast outlets, said that he implementing new policies to ensure that editorials that reflect the views of Donald Trump’s administration are given greater prominence and placement.
In the announcement on Wednesday, the agency said that they would establish a streamlined process for clearing the editorials, a process done in consultation with the State Department that they described as too slow. The editorials also will be placed at the top of the VOA’s homepage, rather than be housed on a separate website, and they will appear in Google searches alongside news content.
for PBS, and two projects with Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist who once led Breitbart.com. In their lawsuit, they said that the outlets “can only be effective in countering disinformation and censorship if they are rightly perceived as independent, professional, and fact-driven—not as official mouthpieces for some partisan agenda.
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