On Saturday, the administration of President Donald Trump froze journalists working in Voice of America and other media funded by the United States government; This led to the cessation of the work of the media, which was essential to the confrontation of the Russian and Chinese media.
Hundreds of correspondents and employees of “Voice of America”, “Free Asia”, “Free Europe” and other official media, at the end of the week, received an email indicating that they are prevented from entering their offices and forcing them to put their press cards, their work phones and other equipment.
On Friday, Trump, who had suspended the work of the American Development Agency and the Ministry of Education, published an executive decree which lists the American media agency among the “elements of federal bureaucracy that the president decided to be useless”.
According to the White House, these measures guarantee that “taxpayers are not forced to pay money for extremist propaganda”.
Carrie Lake, the former Trump supporter, who was appointed consultant to the American Media Agency, sent an email to the media that is supervised by saying that federal subsidy funds “no longer realize the priorities of the agency”.
As for Harrison Fields, the media manager of the White House, he wrote, on the platform “X”, the word “goodbye” in twenty languages, in an acute irony of the cover of “Voice of America” in several languages.
The head of the Free Europe Radio / Radio Liberty, whose broadcast was directed to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, described the cancellation of funding as a “great gift for the enemies of America”.
“The Iranian verses of God, Chinese communist leaders and tyrants in Moscow and Mings celebrate the disappearance of free radio / radio freedom after 75 years.”
He added: “recite a victory to our opponents will make them stronger and America weaker.”
And the radio “Free Asia”, which was created in 1996, believes that its task is to disseminate reports that are not controlled to countries where there are no free media; Like China, Burma, North Korea and Vietnam.
Government media enjoy a protective wall that guarantees its independence, although its funding comes from the United States government.
This independence was not improved by Trump, who, during his first mandate, considered that government media should promote its policies.
