Kari Lake says OAN's far-right coverage will fuel Voice of America

[Yonnie3]

NPR

Kari Lake says OAN's far-right coverage will fuel Voice of America
May 7, 2025 5:00 AM ET

David Folkenflik

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Lake seeks for it to look and sound a lot like the far-right One America News Network: on Tuesday night she announced that she had struck a deal to serve up the pro-Trump outlet's news reports for Voice of America's foreign audiences, at no taxpayer cost.

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The reaction from agency and network veterans was swift and indignant.

"Kari Lake providing One America News Network to our global audiences makes a mockery of the agency's history of independent non-partisan journalism," former U.S. Agency for Global Media Chief Financial Officer Grant Turner tells NPR.

Since World War II, the Voice of America has provided news coverage and cultural programming to lands across the globe without access to a free press, serving an audience that has grown to more than 360 million people weekly. Its charge - established by Congress - is to incorporate criticism of the government's official line to convey the news in its complexity but also to model what a pluralistic democracy looks like.

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I think this is malicious compliance with the court orders reinstating VOA.

Read the whole article at https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5389453/kari-lake-says-oans-far-right-coverage-will-fuel-voice-of-america

[genxlib]

1. I stand by my original statement on the matter

When it was announced that she was appointed to shut it down, I said that was probably the best case scenario. Keeping it active as a readymade propaganda outlet would be a far more damaging and undignified outcome.

And here we are.

[Yonnie3]

2. Yes, here we are n/t