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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the Voice of America news service of "demeaning America" in a speech that a watchdog group criticized as "political propaganda" and a violation of the government-funded agency's own rules.

Bloomberg: Pompeo Demands Voice of America Promote U.S. as the Greatest Pompeo Demands Voice of America Promote U.S. as the Greatest This article features Government Accountability Project and was originally published here. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo pressed the Voice of America to be less critical of the U.S., delivering a speech that appeared at odds with the news organization’s mandate to maintain editorial independence from the government. Pompeo’s address Monday at the Voice of ...

During Pompeos visit to VOA, journalist Patsy Widakuswara tried to ask him whether he regretted saying there would be a second Trump administration after Joe Bidens victory in November.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday criticized "wokeness" and political correctness within the official government Voice of America broadcaster after some employees protested his plan to speak to official U.S. broadcasters at VOA headquarters.

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took to U.S. government-funded airwaves on Monday to deliver a full-throated defence of the Trump administration’s presentation of its foreign policy and its support for democracy abroad. Less than a week after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to subvert the results of […]

The Voice of America building in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (CN) — The head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media illegally funneled millions from his nonprofit to a for-profit film company, the attorney general for the District of Columbia claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Michael Pack, appointed by President Donald Trump last year, formed the nonprofit Public Media Lab in 2007 and served as the organization’s president and chief executive officer until his nomination. Since 2008,...

Pack has decided on the latter. The most consequential prerogative of the USAGM CEO is to name the heads of USAGM’s “entities”: the directors of its two agencies, Voice of America and Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio Martí) and the presidents of its three nonprofit corporations, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks (Alhurra and Radio Sawa).  ADVERTISEMENT In his choices, during what is likely the last weeks of his leadership, ...

Government Executive email Michael Pack dismissed the previous ones shortly after coming into office in June. The leader of the global media agency recently brought on new heads of its broadcasting networks after removing the previous ones upon coming into office last June.  Besides dismissing the network heads, Michael Pack, CEO of the U.S. Global Media Agency, has been making other controversial management and editorial changes over the last seven months. Last month, the Office of S...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 20:15 UTC © RFE/RL Editors and section chiefs at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have sent a letter to Congress claiming their agency head is threatening their journalistic autonomy and stellar reputation, both of which are dubious concepts at best. The actions of Michael Pack, head of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), are "intended to revoke RFE/RLs financial autonomy" and "embed" his appointees within the services board of directors for two years, in an "unprecedent...

April 1, 2021 | 3:13 pm EDT by Scott R. Flick Few rules in the Code of Federal Regulations have as tortured a history as 47 CFR § 73.3555 — the broadcast multiple ownership rules. The subject of court decisions too numerous to count, a brief review of FCC decisions revising (or deciding not to revise) these rules reveals a twisted mass of logic and rationales where parties fiercely argue even as to the very reason for their existence. Today, the Supreme Court released a  unanimous decisio...