president Donald Trump On Friday, an executive order signed the pieces America’s voice. The plan is looking to dismantle the government -funded media outlet from the government as well as programs such as Radio Free Eurobe and Radio Liberty.
“This continues to decrease the elements of the federal bureaucracy that the president decided is unnecessary,” she says, she says ArrangementLate on Friday.
In response to the news, the non -profit active group for the protection of journalists Criticize As “bright”, he called to members of Congress to defend VOA.
“It is a hay that the White House is seeking a channel funded by Congress that supports the independent press that challenges the accounts of authoritarian regimes all over the world,” said Carlos Martinez de la Sirna, director of CPJ. “We call on Congress leaders to protect this critical agency, which provides non -controlled news in countries where the press is restricted.”
VOA, which has been a training land for generations of journalists since 1942, has been operated through the US Agency for World Media. The port works in more than 40 languages, on a mission to bring “accurate objective news from the United States and around the world,” according to the organization A website.
The executive order stipulates that the listed agencies, which also include the US Displacement Agencies Council, the Woodro Wilson International Scholars Center, the Museum and Libraries Services Institute, Federal Mediation and Culture Service, must “reduce the performance of their legal functions and employees associated with the minimum and the job required under the law.”
