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... "I can ensure our outlets have reliable and credible options as they work to craft their reporting and news programs," Lake wrote on social media posts on Elon Musk's X and on Truth Social. "And every day I look for ways to save American taxpayers money. Bringing in OAN as a video/news source does both." OAN President Charles Herring did not immediately reply to NPR's message seeking confirmation, but he did retweet Lake's post.

The reaction from agency and network veterans was swift and indignant.

"Kari Lake providing One America News Network to our global audiences makes a mockery of the agency's history of independent non-partisan journalism," former U.S. Agency for Global Media Chief Financial Officer Grant Turner tells NPR.

Since World War II, the Voice of America has provided news coverage and cultural programming to lands across the globe without access to a free press, serving an audience that has grown to more than 360 million people weekly. Its charge - established by Congress - is to incorporate criticism of the government's official line to convey the news in its complexity but also to model what a pluralistic democracy looks like. ...

@#1 ... Since World War II, the Voice of America has provided news coverage and cultural programming to lands across the globe without access to a free press, serving an audience that has grown to more than 360 million people weekly. Its charge - established by Congress - is to incorporate criticism of the government's official line to convey the news in its complexity but also to model what a pluralistic democracy looks like. ...

Yup.

So, another pillar of American Excellence being destroyed by Pres Trump.

@#3 ... I worked on some segments for Voice of America a while back.

It's literally all pro American propaganda broadcast overseas to help influence global sentiment. ...

Back when I was a teen, I built a shortwave radio from a kit (thank-you Heathkit).

I used to listen to the international broadcasts on that radio.

BBC
Radio Moscow
Deutsche Welle
Voice of America
Radio Moscow
Radio Hanoi (the Vietnam war was in full swing at the time)
Radio Peking (yeah, that is what is was named back then, now Beijing)

etc., etc, etc.

Long story short, there were some shortwave broadcasts that made sense and there were others that appeared to be inherently self-contradictory.

The Voice of America was one of the broadcasts that seemed to make sense, airing both the good and the bad.

R.I.P. Voice of America.

Everything that Pres Trump touches dies.