Actually it is the center for American government propaganda. Nothing independent about it. If you don't like it, don't listen to it.
No not that he is evil though he may be. The view of him is based on his reputation, what he has done, and what he says against, about people and organizations. He provided all of building block that people formed about him.
In fact, I don't see Trump as evil. True evil requires a very high intelligence - and I think we can agree that negates Trump.
Trump fans hate it when journalists, broadcast networks, or print publications report the truth about their hero. NPR report the truth therefore Trump fans hate NPR. NPR does have it's faults but reporting the truth about political figures is not one of their faults.
Yeah, I think it was the network that reliably beamed in to Cuba and the Eastern Bloc communist countries of Europe the only news and information they could get with an alternative outlook from constant communist propaganda. It was a fundamental tool of the West that could not be squashed by the USSR or Castro.
Your bias is expected. "Agencies" represent the source of their funding and reflect their interests and goals. Privatization of media gives us one or another degree of capitalist viewpoint. Government control of media gives us a balance representing funding by the public AND corporate interests **IF** that media is not subjected to a heavy bias as Trump is interested in. Your problem is that you object to media serving society as a whole, and want it to serve corporate interests to the exclusion of those of the public.
NPR is alive thanks to people who donate money it isn't because of the feds it is still in operation.
You have zero evidence that Trump's administration is looking to clean up VOA so they can switch the bias in their favor. What I want, and support, is UNBIASED media. VOA is biased, much like a milder version of NPR. I support any efforts to remove that bias. It does not mean I want it replaced with another bias ---- please don't accuse my mind of having the same deviations as your own.
I may have heard of it (it sounds familiar but I'm not familiar with it). On the surface, 'govt funded news' sounds bad regardless of who is in charge...
Sounds good to me. Especially if they can't be truly unbiased. If they're going to push one agenda or another, let the folks with the agenda pay for it. Let's give NPR the boot while we're at it. I suspect VOA's bias only pales in comparison to NPR's.
NPR lost its way in 2008. Went from a little left to off the cliff. And in 2016 they’ve been broadcasting from Mars.
