Voice of America’s forgotten Mr. Joneses

Published August 9, 2020 4:35am ET



After watching Agnieszka Holland‘s film Mr. Jones on Amazon Prime, I highly recommend it to every journalist at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other liberal media outlets. I especially recommend it to those working at my former U.S. federal government employer, the Voice of America, the largely unmonitored and unaccountable state broadcaster funded by American taxpayers who are generally unaware of its existence.

It may come as a shock to most people that, until a few months ago, VOA employed a reporter who had earlier produced Russian propaganda videos with anti-U.S. conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic themes. The former Obama administration holdover management was also responsible for firing anti-communist journalists who wanted to expose China’s influence operations in the United States. In fact, VOA editors later aired videos with the Chinese regime’s propaganda.

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