BronMason<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> </p><p>Brings to mind the movie “Glory!” <br>“If this man should fall, who shall lift the flag and carry it on?” Thank you EU!<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a></p>
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Doug Bostrom<p>Do or die is so much easier when one's enemy has promised death.</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> </p><p>"The leaders of several US-funded international networks have instructed their organizations to continue broadcasting, ignoring a Trump administration order, because they believe last weekend’s terminations were unlawful, according to a person involved in the matter."</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/media/radio-free-europe-trump/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2025/03/18/media/radio</span><span class="invisible">-free-europe-trump/index.html</span></a></p>
Flipboard News Desk<p>Donald Trump's dismantling of Voice of America could lead to dominance of anti-American propaganda, director says.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@CBSNews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CBSNews</span></a></span> reports: "VOA reports news about the U.S. in nearly 50 languages — with much of its focus trained on countries that lack a free press."</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/6vBCdo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/6vBCdo</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>
Kriszta Satori<p><a href="https://journa.host/tags/BBCNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBCNews</span></a> - 'Discarded like a dirty rag': Chinese state media hails Trump cuts to Voice of America<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwzmj9v34o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwzmj9</span><span class="invisible">v34o</span></a><br><a href="https://journa.host/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/RFERL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFERL</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> Another short story when the CCP allowed their Chinese subjects to celebrate online: </p><p>"Let's jump back to autumn 2001 when the *republican* neo-con administration of George W. Bush launched the second Iraq War for which the USA is still paying heavy financial and *reputational* cost.</p><p>On the early Chinese forums people were delirious with joy. (i.e. "permitted speech" in the PRC)</p><p>Just a year earlier in 2000 the USA had agreed to allow <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> to join the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WTO</span></a>... and in 1994, only a few years after the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Tiananmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tiananmen</span></a> massacre, the USA had handed the CCP/PRC the coveted Most Favored Nation (MFN) status.</p><p>Yet for the Chinese regime it's not enough for them to win; the USA and all other non-submissive democracies must lose.</p><p>I was still rather dismayed back in 2001, but only until I understood the policy."</p><p>NB: This is part of a post I made on Nov 7, 2024 in response to the Chinese *celebrating* the result of the most recent US presidential elections...</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/deck/@demi7en/113437167796537912" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/deck/@demi7en</span><span class="invisible">/113437167796537912</span></a> </p><p>It's a little odd that the Chinese communist dictatorship never allows its subjects to celebrate when the United States or the Democratic Left succeeds in something... 🧐 </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCP</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a></p>
Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> powers said on Monday they would try to save Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - the U.S.-funded news outlet set up to reach people under communism during the Cold War - but warned they might struggle to replace funding cut by Donald Trump.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RadioFreeEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioFreeEurope</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czechs-raise-radio-free-europe-with-eu-states-after-us-funding-cut-2025-03-17/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/europe/czech</span><span class="invisible">s-raise-radio-free-europe-with-eu-states-after-us-funding-cut-2025-03-17/</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> Did anybody else initially read this as lamenting that *both* the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> *and* <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> were “flickering out”? </p><p>I wondered why by <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Washington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Washington</span></a> Post wasn’t included, but thought maybe Steve Herman was implying that flame of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/liberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberty</span></a> had already been extinguished.</p><p>On second reading, I understood and boosted the toot, since it was a gift article.</p><p>But sadly, my first take is what it seems like. 😞 </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/WashingtonHasFallen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonHasFallen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/FailingMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FailingMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ChangeMyMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChangeMyMind</span></a></p>
Paul Chambers🚧<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> The last <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <br> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSS</span></a> feed post was March 15, 6:09 pm EST. I am heartbroken and saddened. <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/RIPVOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIPVOA</span></a></p>
Kriszta Satori<p>Trump moves to close down Voice of America<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge4l109r3o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cvge4l10</span><span class="invisible">9r3o</span></a><br><a href="https://journa.host/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a><br><a href="https://journa.host/tags/JournalismIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JournalismIsNotACrime</span></a></p>
Bob K Mertz :distressedUS:<p>Trump may not be Hitler but he sure is using his playbook.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge4l109r3o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cvge4l10</span><span class="invisible">9r3o</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/voa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voa</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a></p>
gentlegardener<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> please give them our thanks. How do we keep track of the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> diaspora? There will be some amazing creativity come out of this crackpot breaking everything up.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/voiceofAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voiceofAmerica</span></a></p>
sheislaurence<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@randahl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>randahl</span></a></span> exactly. It's impossible not to see the hand of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> behind this when you know how influencial <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> and Radio Free Europe were in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coldwar</span></a> era, and continued to play a role in Eastern Europe as Putin sought to revive the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USSR</span></a>/the Russian empire/both.</p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Trump diminishes the US globally each and every day. </p><p>Only 1,405 days to go.</p><p>Voice of America staff put on leave, Trump ally says agency 'not salvageable'<br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-signs-order-gut-voice-america-other-agencies-2025-03-15/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/business/media-tel</span><span class="invisible">ecom/trump-signs-order-gut-voice-america-other-agencies-2025-03-15/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EndTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EndMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EndMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
lucabianciardi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GossiTheDog</span></a></span> io seguivo <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> ogni giorno. Oggi mi sono cancellato</p>
RememberUsAlways<p>I'm ashamed of being an American <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/journalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalist</span></a> today and if you call yourself a journalist or are in the media and are silent over the dismantling of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a>,<br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/freepress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freepress</span></a>, shame on the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>. <br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <br>Everything I was told about our Nation was a lie.</p>
jackhutton 🇺🇸<p>[The News Guy, Substack]: Requiem for the voice that carried a nation’s conscience</p><p>VOA's signal for 83 years crossed borders and ideologies—now its silence will speak volumes. By Steve Herman, March 15, 2025</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/requiem-for-the-voice-that-carried?r=buqu&utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/</span><span class="invisible">p/requiem-for-the-voice-that-carried?r=buqu&utm_medium=ios</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/voiceofAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voiceofAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RadioFreeAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioFreeAsia</span></a></p>
Doug Bostrom<p>We have internalized messages to the effect that government "needs thoughtful reform" as recited by <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> news director Michael Abramowitz.</p><p>Yet so far we don't seem to have witnessed a single individual dismissal responsive to any genuinely needful reform-- among myriad thousands. </p><p>It's -all- loss.</p><p>It's a good idea to stop and think about this every time flaccid, uncritical conciliation with raving, roaming insanity is expressed as a polite concession to our actually requiring needful reform.</p>
David August<p>"Destroying VOA…is a national security issue. These entities, funded by the American people…among…most effective instruments of American soft power — a bridge to those who may never set foot on our soil, but understand our values because they heard them…" - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.steveherman.press/p/requiem-for-the-voice-that-carried" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">steveherman.press/p/requiem-fo</span><span class="invisible">r-the-voice-that-carried</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/voa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>voa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>
Catherine McCarthy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>w7voa</span></a></span><br> 💔 🗣️ 🗺️ 🎙️ 📰 🚫🔇 <br>trump is killing the Voice of America<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a></p>
Catherine Morris<p>From Steve Herman, 15 March 2025 <br>| Requiem for the voice that carried a nation's conscience: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a>'s signal for 83 years crossed borders and ideologies—now its silence will speak volumes. “...My colleagues & our broadcasts, devoted to telling America's story to the world - honestly, fairly & with an unwavering commitment to the truth, are being silenced this weekend.“ <br><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/requiem-for-the-voice-that-carried" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/</span><span class="invisible">p/requiem-for-the-voice-that-carried</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:v63y3emmbz5dlvzkejca2mcc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>newsguy.bsky.social</span></a></span></p>
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