Voice of America
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I used to listen to it ALOT. They had the news in "special English". LOL
When I was in some pretty remote or blocked areas, it was the best choice (via shortwave) to regularly listen to news.
Actually, there are a lot if interesting countries news out there on the short wave. I still have my book that gives country/shortwave channel/time of various programs.
More than 1,300 Voice of America employees were placed on leave on Saturday and funding for two U.S. news services that broadcast to authoritarian regimes was terminated, one day after President Donald Trump ordered the gutting of the government-funded media outlet's parent and six other federal agencies.
Michael Abramowitz, Voice of America's director, said that nearly his entire staff of 1,300 journalists, producers and assistants had been put on administrative leave, crippling a media broadcaster that operates in nearly 50 languages.
"I am deeply saddened that for the first time in 83 years, the storied Voice of America is being silenced," Abramowitz said in a post on LinkedIn, saying it has played an important role "in the fight for freedom and democracy around the world."
VOA's parent agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), also terminated its grants to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which broadcasts to countries in Eastern Europe, including Russia and Ukraine, as well as to Radio Free Asia, which broadcasts to China and North Korea.
This is my radio
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No problem, RT will fill the void.
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I was going to say soon they’ll just broadcast RT on the same channel
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VOA was broadcast from an array of antennas couple miles from my home for most of my life, but they shut that down 20 or 30 years ago. It's been whittled down repeatedly over the years. Suggestions to shut it down have been made repeatedly.
From Wiki:
Cuts and expansion
The Arabic Service was abolished in 2002 and replaced by a new radio service, called the Middle East Radio Network or Radio Sawa, with an initial budget of $22 million. Radio Sawa offered mostly Western and Middle Eastern popular songs with periodic brief news bulletins.The Arabic Service expanded to television with Alhurra on February 14, 2004 (and later to various social media and websites).[69] On May 16, 2004, the US government's international English language TV service Worldnet, became part of VOA as "VOA TV".
Radio programs in Russian ended in July 2008.[70] In September 2008, VOA eliminated the Hindi-language service after 53 years.[70] Broadcasts in Ukrainian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bosnian also ended.[71] These reductions were part of American efforts to concentrate more resources to broadcast to the Muslim world.[70][71] In September 2010, VOA began radio broadcasts in Sudan. As U.S. interests in South Sudan grew, there was a desire to provide people with free information.[72]
In 2013, VOA ended foreign-language transmissions on shortwave and medium wave to Albania, Georgia, Iran, and Latin America, as well as English-language broadcasts to the Middle East and Afghanistan.[73] This was done due to budget cuts.[73] On July 1, 2014, VOA cut most of its English-language transmissions to Asia,[74] as well as shortwave transmissions in Azerbaijani, Bengali, Khmer, Kurdish, Lao, and Uzbek.[74] The following month, the Greek service ended after 72 years on air.[75][76]
Proposal by DOGE to shut down
In February 2025 the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) put forward a proposal for VoA and Radio Free Europe as two government-owned media agencies, to be considered for closure as a cost saving measure for the U.S. federal government.[77] The latest proposal comes after previously made suggestions by other government officials to shutter the agency.[78][79] -
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Maybe President Trump just doesn't really like Kari Lake. LOL
First he appoints her to lead VOA and then shuts it down.
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She's doing what she was hired to do.
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Guess who else is happy about the Voice of America getting cut?
Chinese state media has reacted gleefully to the Trump administration’s decision to slash government funding to media organisations such as Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Voice of America (VOA).
The Global Times, a daily English-language tabloid and Chinese Communist party mouthpiece, celebrated the cuts to the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees broadcasters such as VOA and RFA.
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Naturally, Russia is very happy to see it all go:
"Today is a holiday for me and my colleagues at RT and Sputnik. This is an awesome decision by Trump!” said Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Kremlin-backed RT network and the Rossiya Segodnya news agency and a vocal cheerleader of Putin and the invasion of Ukraine. “We couldn’t shut them down, unfortunately, but America did so itself."
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Do the Chinese pay Mr. Trump more or less than they pay the Biden crime family?
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when Russia or China likes something Trump does, it's proof that Trump is bad. When they don't like something Trump does, it's proof that Trump is bad. Either way, those who care most about what other countries think, are those who hate Donald Trump. And that stands to reason.
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when Russia or China likes something Trump does, it's proof that Trump is bad. When they don't like something Trump does, it's proof that Trump is bad. Either way, those who care most about what other countries think, are those who hate Donald Trump. And that stands to reason.
wrote 13 days ago last edited by@Horace said in Voice of America:
when Russia or China likes something Trump does, it's proof that Trump is bad. When they don't like something Trump does, it's proof that Trump is bad. Either way, those who care most about what other countries think, are those who hate Donald Trump. And that stands to reason.
You say that as if it’s bad or useless to care about what other countries think. (To the extent that a country can think)
I’d rephrase it as, Trump doesn’t realize how America’s place in the world uniquely advantages America
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@Horace said in Voice of America:
when Russia or China likes something Trump does, it's proof that Trump is bad. When they don't like something Trump does, it's proof that Trump is bad. Either way, those who care most about what other countries think, are those who hate Donald Trump. And that stands to reason.
You say that as if it’s bad or useless to care about what other countries think. (To the extent that a country can think)
I’d rephrase it as, Trump doesn’t realize how America’s place in the world uniquely advantages America
wrote 13 days ago last edited by@xenon said in Voice of America:
@Horace said in Voice of America:
when Russia or China likes something Trump does, it's proof that Trump is bad. When they don't like something Trump does, it's proof that Trump is bad. Either way, those who care most about what other countries think, are those who hate Donald Trump. And that stands to reason.
You say that as if it’s bad or useless to care about what other countries think. (To the extent that a country can think)
I’d rephrase it as, Trump doesn’t realize how America’s place in the world uniquely advantages America
Economically, sure. Reports of the rest of the world being very disappointed in our moral standing, on the other hand, and how meaningful that is, well, the alleged importance of that is really convenient for certain rhetorical points, and that's about all I'll give it.
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I think it matters in the very long run - the same way it matters if we have baseline morals across society within a country.
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I think it matters in the very long run - the same way it matters if we have baseline morals across society within a country.
wrote 13 days ago last edited by@xenon said in Voice of America:
I think it matters in the very long run - the same way it matters if we have baseline morals across society within a country.
Agree.
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Good.
Then let's return to the Judeo-Christian values and the Puritan work ethic of a previous day in America.
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Would be nice. The current guy ain’t quite there.
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Better than the half-dead POS we had in their the last four years.
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You know, I go to work every day, just as I have for the last 36 years. I don't need people telling me how to behave of an evening. I like a beer and a bit of rhythmic music. I've been known to use naughty words.
The Puritans can suck my dick.
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You know, I go to work every day, just as I have for the last 36 years. I don't need people telling me how to behave of an evening. I like a beer and a bit of rhythmic music. I've been known to use naughty words.
The Puritans can suck my dick.
wrote 13 days ago last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Voice of America:
You know, I go to work every day, just as I have for the last 36 years. I don't need people telling me how to behave of an evening. I like a beer and a bit of rhythmic music. I've been known to use naughty words.
The Puritans can suck my dick.
First, they'd have to find it. 🫣
