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Dangerously naive VOA journalists make fools of themselves

By Ted Lipien
Published October 8, 2020 4:00am ET
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Equal time for communists on VOA is a sure way to ensure America's defeat in the war of ideas. (Wikipedia Commons)

In December 1953 the first Voice of America Chief News Editor and writer Howard Fast received the Stalin Peace Prize.

Forty-seven years later, in August 2020, 14 Voice of America central English newsroom editors and writers wrote this to Acting VOA Director Elez Biberaj about Michael Pack, the new CEO of the agency that oversees VOA:

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