Senior Trump adviser Kari Lake showed at a conservative meeting earlier this year that the U.S. voices will rely on reports from far-right television network OAN. Lake's U.S. voice employees on indefinite leave are suing for resuming work. Jose Luis Magana/AP/FR159526 AP Closed subtitles
Senior presidential adviser Kari Lake seems to have solved any questions about what she wants to do with the American voice.
Lake seeks what it looks and sounds a lot like the far-right U.S. News Network: Tuesday night, she announced she reached a deal to provide news coverage from Pro-Trump Outlet to get to know the foreign audience of Voice of America without taxpayer fees.
“I can make sure our shop has a reliable and credible choice when developing reports and news programs,” Lake Write Posts on social media about Elon Musk's X and the Truth Society. "And, every day I'm looking for ways to save money from American taxpayers. Using OAN as a video/news source both." OAN President Charles Herring did not immediately answer the information NPR seeks to confirm, but he did retweet Lake's post.
Agents and cyber veterans responded quickly and were outraged.
Grant Turner, chief financial officer of Global Media in the United States, told NPR, “Kari Lake offers our global audience a U.S. news network to mock the agency’s history of independent nonpartisan journalism.”
Since World War II, the American voice has provided news coverage and cultural programs to lands around the world without access to the press for free, serving audiences of more than 360 million people per week. The allegations established by Congress are to incorporate criticism of the official line of the government into its complexity that conveys news, while also mimicking the appearance of plural democracy.
However, since March, the voices in the United States have been stationary in order of Trump and the Lake. Her announcement Called a parent institution “The huge decay and the burden on American taxpayers.”
Lake puts almost the entire labor force on an indefinite vacation. In the current state of lawsuits filed by the Alliance of Voice News, Agent Employees, Unions and News Advocacy Groups, the US global media outlets must plan for Voice again. The increase in OANs may help Lake achieve this without rebuilding the network.
According to three U.S. voice staff, the agency asked a few journalists to return on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the contractor began to receive notices of termination. (Staff spoke on unnamed conditions, citing concerns that the agency's current climate is affected.)
Lake did not respond to NPR's request for comment.
Earlier this year, the White House canceled U.S. contracts with major news services, including the Associated Press, Reuters and France-France-Pres, the channels broadcasters used to supplement their reports.
Oan is outstanding for his firm support for President Trump - despite his insistence on mistakenly believing he was cheated in 2020.
OAN reaches settlement to resolve separate libel lawsuits filed by voting software companies Smart products, Former executives of Dominion voting systemand Two Georgia election workers Overly refuted claims they helped hear the 2020 presidential election of Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
Trump's aides welcomed OAN reporters to the White House and called on them at a press conference, while access to media upstream was restricted in the White House and the Pentagon. Trump's first draft pick to U.S. Attorney General Matt Gaetz became the host of the network after his planned nomination went out.
Current and former US global media and US voice employee agency said OAN programming is unable to fulfill the network’s mission.
"I don't think it's in line with our statutory mandate, and I don't think the audience will accept it," said Turner, who served as acting CEO of the agency's Trump-led from October 2019 to June 2020.
“Congress requires VOA to report reliable and authoritative news rather than outsourcing its journalism to channels that align with the president’s agenda,” U.S. Voice White House Director Patsy Widakuswara and free press editor Jessica Jerreat said in a joint statement with NPR.
Both journalists, who are currently uncertain about fakes, are suing a group of staff members of Lake and Trump administration, accusing their actions against the U.S. voices of the country violated the law and violated the constitutional free press protection. They are currently appealing the entire lineup of federal appeals judges on the DC Tour, a labor force whipped by a series of conflicting announcements and judicial decisions.
“VOA already has talented professional journalists ready to tell the American story in accordance with the VOA charter, but we were blocked by our newsroom,” Widakuswara and Jerreat said. “That’s why we will continue to fight for our rights in court.”
For the American Voice and its sister network, a constant that restores Trump to the White House is chaos.
As required by an executive order in mid-March, Lake silenced his broadcast, freezing the website in time, and placed nearly everyone in the US global media agencies and indefinitely furloughed network. She also stopped privately incorporating the voices of sister networks in the United States, but relied on federal support: Radio Europe/Radio Freedom, Radio Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Network.
"Kari Lake, President Trump's senior adviser, illegally terminated our grant agreement," said Jeffrey Gedmin, president and CEO of Middle East Broadcasting Network. "We have been craving resources since then and have been forced to terminate more than 90% of our employees. U.S. taxpayers, MBN's congressional mandate missions, and pro-American audiences are the big losers of this wasteful, reckless and stupid Game of Thrones."
Free Asian radio and free European/Radio Free Radio were also forced to fire most of their employees. All networks are trapped in related lawsuits against the Lake and the White House.
According to a March report, ten journalists who reported network reports were imprisoned - their chances of obtaining legal and security assistance were compromised. Colombia News Review Liam Scott. Scott previously covered press freedom for American voice.
Lake appeared on News Max TV to praise Trump for his first 100 days and imposed a court ruling on his administration after a federal judge ruled that she had to reverse the route last week. “We have district court judges who think they have more power than the president of the United States.” Lake says.
On Friday, Lake sent a note to staff saying they would receive guidance on how the agency will modernize and achieve its mission. "We look forward to working with you guys," Lake concluded.
Just one day later, a three-judge appeals panel ruled that the judge had gone to great lengths to find that the dispute over the U.S. voice should be mediated through labor and employment administrative procedures before it was brought to the court.
Most judges were appointed in Trump's first term. The lonely dissident appointed by President Barack Obama argues that Trump is beyond his authority in seeking to remove the U.S. voice, given the support and funding of Congress.
"The government cannot seriously debate this posture, namely the relevant regulations, or more fundamental constitutional separation powers - putting the president on the entire voice of the United States and its affiliated network," Judge Cornellia Pillard wrote in his objection.
The plaintiff is attractive in this ruling.
But the lake is celebrating. "Great victory." She tweeted that afternoon. “A huge victory.”
The government has not fought part of the initial ruling to demand a re-air of the American voice.
With Tuesday night's announcement, Lake showed what she wanted to be.