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America s lost voice Print this article In a talk before he was fired, Michael Pack expressed the hope that the new managers he had brought into the five networks would run them in a more objective and balanced way than in the past. By the time we talked after the inauguration, they had all been fired by Joe Biden, too. (Graeme Jennings / Washington Examiner)
Michael Pack has the distinction of being the very first person fired by the Biden administration. On Inauguration Day, the new president fired Pack before taking action on the pandemic, the economy, or immigration. How did sacking Pack, the mild-mannered, Trump-appointed head of the small, mostly obscure U.S. Agency for Global Media, earn such a high place on Joe Biden’s to-do list?
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The agency oversees “public service media networks that provide unbiased news and information in countries where the press is restricted,” according to its website.
That’s a noble mission, but while the First Amendment’s ironclad press freedom guarantees are the envy of journalists around the globe, laws meant to safeguard the stations’ editorial independence have proven more pliable.
Reilly sought to root out what he called pervasive anti-Trump bias in the Voice of America newsroom, while VOA journalists said leaders’ unabashed pro-Trump bias interfered with their work. If either charge is true, the network forfeits its claim of neutrality.
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WASHINGTON The Biden administration on Sunday installed new heads of three federally funded international broadcasters after abruptly firing Donald Trump-appointees at the U.S. Agency for Global Media.