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sunonmars

(8,656 posts) Mon Jun 15, 2020, 12:00 PM Jun 2020

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Both @VOANews Director @abennett and Deputy Director @slsugawara have just resigned.

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Both @VOANews Director @abennett and Deputy Director @slsugawara have just resigned. (Original Post) sunonmars Jun 2020 OP

These two were the christofascist apparatchiks the Pig installed? Thomas Hurt Jun 2020 #1

This follows a rw Trumpbot being designated to take over at USAGM, the parent agency. Eugene Jun 2020 #2

One of the first things putin did after seizing power was destroy independent media EleanorR Jun 2020 #3

Same thing the Bolsheviks did in 1917. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2020 #4

Their dirty work is done?!1 UTUSN Jun 2020 #5

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)

1. These two were the christofascist apparatchiks the Pig installed?

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2020, 12:06 PM

Jun 2020

Eugene

(61,819 posts)

2. This follows a rw Trumpbot being designated to take over at USAGM, the parent agency.

Reply to Thomas Hurt (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 15, 2020, 12:17 PM

Jun 2020

VOA is on Trump's shit list for not backing the blame-China COVID-19 narrative.

https://www.insidevoa.com/a/voa-director-s-statement-on-cdc-s-media-interview-policy-excluding-voa-journalists/5462335.html

EleanorR

(2,388 posts)

3. One of the first things putin did after seizing power was destroy independent media

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2020, 12:31 PM

Jun 2020

And that's exactly what trump is trying to do.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,964 posts)

4. Same thing the Bolsheviks did in 1917. . . . nt

Reply to EleanorR (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 15, 2020, 02:29 PM

Jun 2020

UTUSN

(70,649 posts)

5. Their dirty work is done?!1

Reply to sunonmars (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2020, 03:15 PM

Jun 2020

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