USAGM Watch Media Commentary
The Voice of America (VOA) has frequently been slower than other media in reporting breaking news on its doorstep. Dan Robinson, who spent 34 years with the Voice of America as chief White House, congressional, and foreign correspondent and head of its Myanmar service, also comments in The Washington Times on the anti-Trump partisanship of the VOA central English newsroom staff, whose job it is to cover breaking news stories quickly and following the VOA Charter.
Add to all of this the high level of politicization in the VOA central newsroom, where a core group of Trump-hating federal employees is using every possible opportunity to attack the president and his appointees — including people he wants heading VOA and its parent agency [the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM)] — and it’s a bad situation. DAN ROBINSON
