China and Russia Celebrate the End of VOA

[MajorRewrite]

Trump has slashed Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. China and Russia are overjoyed.

Chinese state media celebrates Trump’s cuts to Voice of America and Radio Free Asia

The Global Times, a daily English-language tabloid and Chinese Communist party mouthpiece, celebrated the cuts to the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees broadcasters such as VOA and RFA.

The attempt to close down RFA was “a reward to dictators and despots”, its president, Bay Fang, said, “including the Chinese Communist party, who would like nothing better than to have their influence go unchecked in the information space.

“Today’s notice not only disenfranchises the nearly 60 million people who turn to RFA’s reporting on a weekly basis to learn the truth, but it also benefits America’s adversaries at our own expense.”

Kremlin Rejoices as Trump Guts RFE and VOA

The Kremlin was especially irritated by RFE/RL’s regional affiliates that broadcast in local and Indigenous languages across Russia and former Soviet countries, as they undermined the wartime censorship Moscow imposed after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Two current and two former Russian officials told The Moscow Times that these outlets’ reporting had created serious problems for Kremlin propaganda, damaging Moscow’s influence in the post-Soviet region.

Doddering Donnie supports authoritarianism. That’s an indisputable fact.

 

[UltraChad]

Doddering Donnie supports authoritarianism. That’s an indisputable fact.

Not wasting money is support for authoritarianism???

Funny coming from the government authority worshiping Karen who supports all the regulations and taxes.

 

[MajorRewrite]

"Today is a holiday for me and my colleagues at RT and Sputnik. This is an awesome decision by Trump!” said Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Kremlin-backed RT network and the Rossiya Segodnya news agency and a vocal cheerleader of Putin and the invasion of Ukraine. “We couldn’t shut them down, unfortunately, but America did so itself."

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Russian propagandists on this forum also celebrate the end of VOA.

 

[UltraChad]

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Russian propagandists on this forum also celebrate the end of VOA.

Everyone who doesn't like wasting money on dumb shit celebrate it.

 

[Chernosoth]

Propaganda venues lost credibility everywhere. People are looking at these venues and asking why do we still pay for this BS that nobody believes anymore. OP's sources, The Moscow Times and The Guardian, will probably also be challenged to prove their worth to investors.

 

[ll74]

People should spend time reviewing the history of VOA, specifically around times of war and occupation of Europe.

But sure....waste of money

 

[MajorRewrite]

Propaganda venues lost credibility everywhere. People are looking at these venues and asking why do we still pay for this BS that nobody believes anymore. OP's sources, The Moscow Times and The Guardian, will probably also be challenged to prove their worth to investors.

Crazy dystopian guy ignores the articles and makes up nonsense. It’s the MAGA way.

 

[JohnEngelman]

Not wasting money is support for authoritarianism???

Funny coming from the government authority worshiping Karen who supports all the regulations and taxes.

Businessmen need to be regulated. Rich men need to be taxed heavily.

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

Not wasting money is support for authoritarianism???

Funny coming from the government authority worshiping Karen who supports all the regulations and taxes.

do you have any clue what VOA does/did? do you?

 

[Lance_Castro]

Nobody wants to hear the Voice of Trumpmerica.

 

[DeluxAuto]

China and Russia Celebrate the End of VOA USA

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

Nobody wants to hear the Voice of Trumpmerica.

true on the trumpmerica but VOA yes

 

[UltraChad]

People should spend time reviewing the history of VOA, specifically around times of war and occupation of Europe.

But sure....waste of money

Give it an exhibit at the Smithsonian, move into the 21st century.

 

[UltraChad]

LOL what a histrionic bitch.

 

[ll74]

Give it an exhibit at the Smithsonian, move into the 21st century.

You think the value is only in the past.
Because you're an idiot

 

[Bray123]

The purpose of learning history is so that it is not repeated.

History is the subject that teaches the future (Home-schooled MAGAtards spent their time shooting cans in the back yard so will not understand).

 

[UltraChad]

You think the value is only in the past.
Because you're an idiot

Compelling case for spending mega bucks on an archaic propaganda outlet that almost nobody listens to and gives the 2025 US Taxpayer absolutely nothing in return for their dollar.

 

[ll74]

Compelling case for spending mega bucks on an archaic propaganda outlet that almost nobody listens to.

Yes, because there's no way to modernize it for current times

You're smart

 

[UltraChad]

The purpose of learning history is so that it is not repeated.

History is the subject that teaches the future (Home-schooled MAGAtards spent their time shooting cans in the back yard so will not understand).

Another compelling case for how VOA makes the average American's day to day life not only wonderful but possible.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Not wasting money is support for authoritarianism???

Funny coming from the government authority worshiping Karen who supports all the regulations and taxes.

Riddle me this bobo....why would your enemies be cheering on the dismantling of VOA?

I mean they don't see a budget savings now do they?

Poor boob....always the last to the dance....*chuckles*

 

[MajorRewrite]

Compelling case for spending mega bucks on an archaic propaganda outlet that almost nobody listens to.

“Mega bucks”: less than the cost of Trump’s golf trips.

“Nobody listens to”: China and Russia know that many millions of people listen and that’s why they are so happy that Trump is shutting down VOA, RFE and RFA.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Propaganda venues lost credibility everywhere. People are looking at these venues and asking why do we still pay for this BS that nobody believes anymore. OP's sources, The Moscow Times and The Guardian, will probably also be challenged to prove their worth to investors.

VOA is outdated. In a world connected by Starlinks and satellites, its usefulness has passed. Not to mention it’s been infiltrated by the usual suspects…


Here’s the moneyshot:

In 1999, President Bill Clinton dismantled the USIA, which had overseen VOA’s public diplomacy efforts. VOA leadership celebrated this as a liberation for its journalists, freeing them from government oversight. But this “independence” marked the beginning of a downward spiral. Detached from U.S. foreign policy, VOA became vulnerable to foreign influence, with authoritarian governments—none more adept than China—exploiting access to their domestic markets as leverage.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Riddle me this bobo....why would your enemies be cheering on the dismantling of VOA?

I mean they don't see a budget savings now do they?

Poor boob....always the last to the dance....*chuckles*

Because it takes their voice and influence away. Read the article above…as usual, you democrats fucked it all up.

 

[UltraChad]

Yes, because there's no way to modernize it for current times

You're smart

We did that by funding corporate media to pump the propaganda for the state .....like 50 years ago.

Across the 20-teens the social media era really took dominance and now corpo network media is dying and in a few decades will be like AM radio is today. Something hobbyist and a rapidly dwindling number of ancients are still using but is largely unimportant.

Will you support propping up CNN/MSNBC/FOX/ABC with public funding then??

 

[MajorRewrite]

Because it takes their voice and influence away. Read the article above…as usual, you democrats fucked it all up.

Dear stupid person:

Russia and China are overjoyed to see VOA, RFE and RFA go because those agencies countered the propaganda that Russia and China feed their citizens.

I hope that helps.