Lake Says OAN's Far-right Coverage to Fuel Voice of America

Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Senior presidential adviser Kari Lake appears to have resolved any doubts about what she wants to do with the Voice of America. Lake seeks for it to look and sound a lot like the far-right One America News Network: on Tuesday night she announced that she had struck a deal to serve up the pro-Trump outlet's news reports for Voice of America's foreign audiences, at no taxpayer cost.

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It's a tragedy to cancel Voice of America, it's cataclysmic to replace it with OAN. "The far-right One America News Network will provide "newsfeed services" to Voice of America and other U.S. government-funded media outlets ... " Full fledged propaganda has hijacked international broadcasting. #MomSky

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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 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-07 06:49 PM | Reply

@#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.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-07 06:50 PM | Reply

It's seems very clear Republicans haven't a clue what Voice of America is and what it's trying to accomplish.

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.

Broadcasting far right sentiments will do nothing useful.

People hate rightwing sentiments.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-05-07 07:39 PM | Reply

"It's seems very clear Republicans haven't a clue what Voice of America is and what it's trying to accomplish."

Yeah we're completely through the looking glass.

A Failed New York Con Man is now considered a successful leader.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-07 07:42 PM | Reply

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

They're opposed to foreigners in the developing world having a positive image of the United States.
They think it makes illegal immigrants want to come here and rape our women.
I'm not joking.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-07 07:44 PM | Reply

Wow... so, trashing America keeps out immigrants, never mind what it does to Americans.

Sounds like a sound Trump strategery.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-07 07:53 PM | Reply

@#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.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-07 08:14 PM | Reply