Trump dismantles Voice of America with executive order - BBC News
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More than 1,300 staff placed on administrative leave as White House accuses VOA of being anti-Trump, "radical" and "leftist".

Is there any effort to crowd fund Voice of America? It would cost US citizens less than $1 a year each. What is the price on freedom of speech? Is it less than that?

    • Kenowdoc@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      74·
      2 days ago

      You’ll never rid the world of propaganda. That’s absurd. The question is whether you want the majority of the World’s population to listen to your own propaganda or the propaganda of your enemies. Which would you prefer?

      • Heyting@lemmy.ml
        5·
        2 days ago

        I definitely would not want the majority of the world to read the kind of propaganda that says genocide is ok, would you?

        • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
          3·
          1 day ago

          Power vacuums are a thing…somebody will always be the loudest person in the room, and if the room is empty, somebody will find it.

          There’s also the point that any media that’s anything other than “the complete objective verifiable truth” is, in some level, propaganda. As soon as you introduce any spin or opinionated commentary, or intentionally omit any facts, it ceases to become unbiased and starts to become propaganda.

          Literally everything is, at some level, propaganda. There are very few truly unbiased and un-opinionated news sources. As far as I’m aware, such a thing is unpossible. There will always be an angle missed or relevant context left out. The trick comes in supporting the media that comes closest.

    • Kenowdoc@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      71·
      2 days ago

      Apologies, but the ‘old news’ argument sometimes seems to me to be a way of shutting down debate, not moving it forward. I agree Trump has done it - but the question is what is America going to do about it?

      Who benefits most from shutting down Voice of America? In my view, it’s not the US tax payer, it’s Vladimir Putin.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 days ago

        I was saying the news is past tense already. But yes, there’s already multiple discussions about it here as well, if that’s how you want to take it.