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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted "wokeness" during a Monday speech in which he defended recent changes at government-funded international broadcaster Voice of America
By Nicole Gaouette, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the Voice of America news service of
English By Jessica Jerreat Share on Facebook Print this page Sorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can download this video to view it offline. Download File Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday defended the leadership of the U.S. Agency for Global Media against criticisms that its CEO is trying to turn the news network into a propaganda tool. In a speech delivered at the Washington headquarters of Voice of America, one of the USAGM networks, the outgoing secretary of state said the Tr...
Patsy Widakuswara shouted questions following a controversial event at agency headquarters. She’s been taken off the beat.
Text Size: A+ Washington: 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 America headquarters in Washington — where he said VOA “isn’t the place to give authoritarian regimes in Beijing or Tehran a platform” — adds to efforts in the waning days of the Trump administration to rein in the government-funded broadcaster. “It is not fake news for you to broa...