• febra@lemmy.world
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    3 个月前

    Of course the US will fight tooth and nail to keep its propaganda machines at work all around the globe.

    • Tinidril@midwest.social
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      3 个月前

      Except that Trump is currently trying to dismantle Voice of America" and other propaganda machines around the globe.

      • Wolf@lemmy.today
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        3 个月前

        It’s ok when he does it. There is no such thing as a Republican who is able to be shamed by hypocrisy. It’s their super power.

          • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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            Oh I forgot the Blue MAGA mantra: “anything the opposition does is automatically bad”
            When they say water is wet you have to deny it.
            Really you all deserve Trump

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              Get over yourself. All I did was state a fact that was contradictory to the previous comment. I didn’t even say anything about whether it was good or bad. Trump is trying to cut VoA.

        • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
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          Wrong. It opposed Naziism and Soviet Union misinformation. Since then it’s been a standard journalism outlet that, by law, could not be dictated by US politicians.

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        VoA is competing with the private sector propaganda wing.

        This is just American Libertarianism taken to its logical conclusion. The mistake the Communists made was thinking Pravda didn’t need to turn an enormous profit.

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        While being the biggest pusher of propaganda in US history.

        And VOA was only “propaganda” when you consider objective information to be “propaganda”, like dumbfuck Trumpers do.

        Since 1976 the Charter and later the 1994 International Broadcasting Act legally forbid government officials from dictating content. Don’t worry about facts, though.

        Trump himself tried to make it a propaganda outlet, doing the exact opposite of what you credit him for. He put Michael Pack in charge who sidelined editors, froze visas for foreign reporters and scrapped long‑standing “fire‑wall” rules that protect editorial independence.