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@jackhutton@mstdn.social[The News Guy, Substack]: Requiem for the voice that carried a nation’s conscience
VOA's signal for 83 years crossed borders and ideologies—now its silence will speak volumes. By Steve Herman, March 15, 2025
https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/requiem-for-the-voice-that-carried?r=buqu&utm_medium=ios
“Destroying VOA (along with RFE/RL and Radio Free Asia) is a national security issue. These entities, funded by the American people, have been among the 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 in one of the dozens of languages in which we broadcast.”
“There will be celebrations in the autocratic halls of power this weekend in Moscow, Minsk, Beijing, Pyongyang and Tehran.”