Re:The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down
by dragonwriter on Friday September 04, 2020 @01:23PM
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> I also don't think taxpayer money should be going to VOA or PBS or NPR for the very same reasons.
VOA is literally a federal government foreign propaganda service that is operated (in theory, mainly as a defensive countermove against hostile government propaganda) to advance US government information interests abroad.
Now, it's usually operated in a standard journalistic manner because the US government has both seen truth as the best the long-term defense against hostile propaganda and seen VOA being seen as trustworthy as the best way to not get target populations to learn to ignore it.
VOA is literally a federal government foreign propaganda service that is operated (in theory, mainly as a defensive countermove against hostile government propaganda) to advance US government information interests abroad.
Now, it's usually operated in a standard journalistic manner because the US government has both seen truth as the best the long-term defense against hostile propaganda and seen VOA being seen as trustworthy as the best way to not get target populations to learn to ignore it.