Michael Pack’s stormy tenure over the federal agency that oversees government-funded broadcasters abroad – including the Voice of America – appears to be coming to a close. Yet President Trump’s appointee has sparked an internal outcry by taking bold steps to try to cement his control over at least two of the networks and to shape the course of their journalism well into the Biden administration.
Pack, the CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, also serves as chairman of the boards of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia. Pack and the members of the boards have now added binding contractual agreements intended to ensure that they cannot be removed for the next two years. Pack stocked those boards with conservative activists and Trump administration officials, despite a tradition of bipartisanship.
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Clifford Dodd, the Australian radio expert and administrator who was sent to Radio Ceylon under the Colombo Plan transformed the Commercial Service of the Station The Hindi Service of Radio Ceylon was instrumental in catapulting the radio station as India’s number one station. Millions tuned in to hear Hindi film music presented by the popular Indian announcers – Vijay Kishore Dubey,Sunil Dutt, Gopal Sharma, Ameen Sayani,Hamid Sayani, Shiv Kumar Saroj,Manohar Mahajan – they helped shape the destiny of Radio Ceylon as King of the airwaves in India. People from all over the Indian sub-continent tuned in to hear the latest film music, some Radio Ceylon programs took the format of a countdown – whatever the format these announcers of the Hindi Service took India by storm. They had no equal. It was also a lucrative money spinner first for Radio Ceylon and even now for