{"id":36749,"date":"2019-08-06T08:39:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36749"},"modified":"2019-08-06T08:39:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:39:57","slug":"rewriting-history-for-political-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36749","title":{"rendered":"Rewriting History For Political Purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Examiner<\/a> posted an article today a news report<\/a> posted on the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America website.<\/p>\n

The Washington Examiner reports:<\/p>\n

By pure chance I stumbled recently on a news report<\/a> posted on the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America website. It was a news feature story about the personality cult of Argentine Communist Ernesto \u201cChe\u201d Guevara<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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He is described as a \u201cMarxist revolutionary\u201d in a complimentary narrative that would make any antifa sympathizer proud. Americans who know something about the history of communist atrocities of the last century might find it shocking and wonder how their tax money is being spent. What VOA failed to mention is that Che was a ruthless communist, directly and indirectly responsible for brutal murders of tens of thousands of innocent human beings in Cuba and elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I discovered through further research that this news feature report was originally prepared by Reuters<\/a>, but VOA posted it on its main desktop website without giving credit to the news agency. VOA staff even put VOA letters on a Reuters photo showing the famous image of the communist hero. Whether or not it gives proper credit to Reuters, VOA is still responsible for everything it offers for public view under its name. The feature glorifying a Communist mass murderer was presented by the U.S. government as VOA\u2019s own work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article details the changes in the VOA in recent years:<\/p>\n

Much of the blame for the return of journalistic bias and chaos to the Voice of America in recent years rests with the recent and current leadership of the agency, which seems have a distorted view of VOA\u2019s past and its mission, in addition to being managerially challenged.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the biggest problem is the political bias, partisanship, and the ineffectiveness of many VOA programs. VOA still has a few excellent and unbiased journalists, but they are deeply unhappy being unable to practice their craft the way they think most Americans would want to support with their tax money. \u201cProfessionalism at VOA is dead, because [VOA Director] Amanda Bennett and [USAGM CEO] John Lensing killed it,\u201d a VOA employee was reported<\/a> to have said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…An ahistorical Voice of America can be a dangerous anti-democratic, anti-liberal, anti-conservative and anti-humanist propaganda tool both abroad and in the United States, regardless of which party controls the White House. VOA needs much better oversight from Congress and American taxpayers than it has now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please read the entire article. It is time for new leadership at the VOA. President Trump is moving in that direction.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The current Obama administration officials in charge of VOA have demonstrated their partisanship and remarkable managerial incompetence<\/a>. Haroon Ullah, a top aide recruited and frequently feted by USAGM CEO John Lansing as a strategic planner, recently pleaded guilty to federal charges of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Award-winning PBS film documentarian and former federal government official Michael Pack is President Trump\u2019s nominee to become the next agency head. He is conservative, but from what I can tell from his documentaries, he possesses a good grasp of history and seems ideologically less dogmatic than some of the current agency leaders and editors. He appears to have much more public service experience to run a government media program than any of the holdover officials currently in charge of USAGM. However, he and any other future VOA officials also need to be constantly watched and scrutinized to make sure that they fully obey the VOA Charter, which is U.S. law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hopefully the change in leadership will happen soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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