As a man whose action is best defined by an Iranian proverb, he is standing on a roof with two skies. Unlike the made claims, VOA acts in absolute contradiction and its paradoxical attitudes tell something different. It will be good for Mr. Chalangi if he could explain the paradoxical behavior even in brief.
Still, the silence of VOA makes it an undeniable fact that it is a media mainly following a policy of quantity rather than rule-based principles. Related Posts:. Omid Pouya July 26, Related Articles. What a big gaffe in the US report! February 23, Associated Press and the Rajavi Cult July 7, Already in , members of the USAGM's advisory board had complained that Lansing had repeatedly disregarded their recommendations, concerns and requests, and had willfully withheld information from them.
One member, Matt Armstrong, resigned in January. A month later, on Feb. Certainly not for many in Congress, let alone the administration. Finally, on Sept. The latter has best been described by Eric Rozenman of the Committee on Accuracy in Middle East Reporting CAMERA in "[A]n anti-Israel, pro-Arab bias recurs chronically in such coverage, highlighted by implicit acceptance of 'the Palestinian narrative' and its language and by 'stacking the deck' when it comes to sources, speakers and viewpoints.
While this would be objectionable in the private news media, it is unacceptable and essentially illegal in publicly-funded media. That NPR should have engaged in relentless vicious, one-sided attacks against Pack's attempts to clean up an organization that even US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in had called "practically defunct" is no more surprising than is similar treatment by The Washington Post.
The reasons evidently go beyond ideological kinship, since the Post's owner before Jeff Bezos, Donald Graham, is married to Amanda Bennett who until her resignation in June had been the Obama-appointed director of … VOA.
Subscribe to Israel Hayom's daily newsletter and never miss our top stories! Though Pack had been confirmed to serve for another three years, Joe Biden declared in June that, should he win in November, he planned to fire Pack and, according to Vox reporter Alex Ward, "install someone as CEO who doesn't want to broadcast Trump-aligned views to the world.
Pack's courage, his almost quixotic commitment to presenting America's message fairly and his fight against USAGM's pervasive corruption are unlikely to be replicated. For whoever replaces him cannot risk antagonizing the ideocracy, the left-wing media establishment and the Democratic leadership. If we go on ignoring this, we have no one to blame but ourselves: We will have lost our voice. Reprinted with permission from JNS. Israel needs the alliances it has managed to forge with Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, and recently Sudan as well in It's no secret that over the years, the Turkish president has made a political fortune by starting crises with non-Muslim The first issue of Israel Hayom appeared on July 30, Israel Hayom was founded on the belief that the Israeli public deserves better, more balanced and more accurate journalism.
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