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We're ALL Voice of America Now: 'BradCast' 3/20/2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-03-20
The reason given by the White House for shutting down the service last week -- which couldn't be shut down by German Nazis or Soviet Communists over all of these decades -- is that VOA and its sister networks, under management of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), was broadcasting "radical propaganda" from the Left. As discussed on this show with VOA's Chief National Correspondent, Steve Herman, earlier this week, it was doing nothing of the kind. (If you missed that must-listen interview, it is right here.) Washington Post's fact-checker Glenn Kessler took at a look at the White House's ten examples in support of their absurd claims, finding them to be "remarkably flimsy", to say the least.
Today, Washington Post's Sally Jenkins tells the story of how tennis superstar Marina Navratilova grew up on -- and dreamed of freedom one day thanks to -- Voice of America broadcasts that she and her family were able to pick up each night on a red plastic transistor radio in their small country village in Czechoslovakia during the darkest days of the communist Soviet regime. We share some of that moving -- and inspiring -- story today.
We also share the harrowing reflections on the shutdown by Ukrainian philosopher and journalist Stanislav Aseyev, who was jailed for 962 days and tortured for reporting on the ground at the time for VOA's partner network, Radio Liberty following Russia's first invasion of Ukraine in 2014.
So, yes, reminder: We are all Voice of America now.
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