The same judge ruled this month that Lake’s appointment as head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA, violated federal law.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the U.S. Agency for Global Media must reverse its decision that put more than 1,000 Voice of America employees on leave, dealing a blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to gut VOA.
The same judge recently said the appointment of Trump ally Kari Lake, who oversaw the job cuts as head of USAGM, violated federal law.
U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth said Tuesday that Lake “repeatedly thumbed her nose” at statutory requirements and that the Trump administration has “made no effort to defend the merits” of its downsizing decision.
What’s bizarre to me is that Trump just tried to destroy it instead of turning it into a propaganda machine, which would have been far less contested and would have furthered their goals better.
Was VoA not propaganda to begin with?
I think it would be fairer to call it heavily biased. I’m just saying that it’s surprising me to me that they didn’t turn it into a giant propaganda mill since they already had access to so many venues.
That’s a fair assessment, it could have gone from heavily biased to just outright state regime media.