Putin Killed All Media I Worked For. Is Trump Doing the Same?
Ksenia Turkova fled Russia due to state media control. Is it happening here?
I met Ksenia Turkova at the start of the war in Ukraine through a University of Maryland colleague who helped me with some Russian translations.
She, and 1,300 of her Voice of America colleagues were fired on Sunday night. Voice of America is a critical news service that broadcasts American information in multiple languages across the globe. VoA was a perfect example of “soft power” which told the American side of the story.
Well, it was… until Sunday.
If you have a role for a journalist or Russian linguist / translator, you can find Ksenia on LinkedIn here.
Sorry, but for many of us, this is exactly the kind of thing that we knew would happen - but b/c the majority (of the minority that of the eligible electorate that actually voted), elected the tangerine man and his Elroy-Pukin agenda, those of us who voted for the other candidate are now enjoying the initial round (of what will likely be in the hundreds of) schadenfreude experiences that are befalling all those who voted these azzphats into power…
Now, just imagine how these folks are gonna screw-up the lead-up to the China face-off, that Ryan has been discussing…
Ryan is there any good reason to explain why the Trump administration has shut down the VOA? Is there any tangible or feasible benefit/reason for doing so?