VOA is funded by the US Agency for Global Media. It’s literally the official propaganda arm of the US government. It’s completely delusional to think that VOA (or RFA, RFE, etc.) is “independent journalism” in any way shape or form.
Not "funded by" the US Agency for Global Media but is literally a division of the US Agency. VOA is literally headquartered out of a federal building in Washington DC. Unlike public broadcasters, it isn't a situation of a non-profit that "receives public money", "has public charter", or even "NGO that receives grant money" but that it is literally a federal agency with the mission of influencing foreign audiences to advance US geopolitical interests.
They could call it The US Deptartment for Propaganda & Foreign Manipulation and these people would still would still argue the point. They're not even engaging with reality, just a my team good rationale that they've internalised and gets more absurd by necessity the more it's exposed to contrary evidence. They're the secular, liberal version of the evangelicals for whom their entire identity is standing on a street corner wearing a sandwich board that says 'Jesus is Returning'.
VOA is funded by the US Agency for Global Media. It’s literally the official propaganda arm of the US government. It’s completely delusional to think that VOA (or RFA, RFE, etc.) is “independent journalism” in any way shape or form.
Not "funded by" the US Agency for Global Media but is literally a division of the US Agency. VOA is literally headquartered out of a federal building in Washington DC. Unlike public broadcasters, it isn't a situation of a non-profit that "receives public money", "has public charter", or even "NGO that receives grant money" but that it is literally a federal agency with the mission of influencing foreign audiences to advance US geopolitical interests.
You’re right, and maybe it was a bad choice of words on my part.
They could call it The US Deptartment for Propaganda & Foreign Manipulation and these people would still would still argue the point. They're not even engaging with reality, just a my team good rationale that they've internalised and gets more absurd by necessity the more it's exposed to contrary evidence. They're the secular, liberal version of the evangelicals for whom their entire identity is standing on a street corner wearing a sandwich board that says 'Jesus is Returning'.
yea VOA/RFA was (in)famous for spreading anti-communist propaganda in the USSR.