Word: vga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...correspondent, Lawrence Freund, preparing a story on the trial of a group of Croatians accused of separatism, noted that Yugoslav security was being stepped up around President Tito's residence in Belgrade. USIA killed the story as "too sensitive" because it fostered the impression of political instability. Instead, VGA broadcast a toned-down story from the wire services...
...Advocacy. Because the Voice has always been a lifeline for dissidents in Communist countries, many apparently now feel let down. A prominent Yugoslav writer recently said: "The VGA is jamming itself-apparently out of some misguided spirit of detente." Pavel Litvinov, a Soviet intellectual now in exile in the U.S., gave a speech to Voice employees in the U.S.S.R. division in which he said: "The quality of your broadcasts to my country has declined 500% in the last few years." Astonishingly, the audience burst into applause...
Last week Keogh, John Shirley and VGA Program Director Jack Shellenberger rejected the charges of censorship...
...interviews with TIME, they defended their policy of not offending Communist governments. Keogh said that VGA has devoted "hundreds of hours" of air time to reports on what the American press was saying about the Solzhenitsyn story. He vetoed broadcasts of excerpts or summaries of The Gulag Archipelago because that amounted to "advocacy journalism." Said Keogh: "The Voice of America is not an international NBC or CBS. Detente has changed what we do in USIA. Our program managers must be sensitive to U.S. policy as enunciated by the President and the Secretary of State. That policy is that...
...tension between VGA journalists and their USIA superiors is one item on the agenda of a 20-member panel that will recommend to Congress some changes in the Government's information services. The group, appointed by two commissions that monitor Government information programs, is headed by Frank Stanton, former vice chairman of CBS Inc. It is expected to recommend next month that the Voice be given greater journalistic freedom. It remains to be seen whether this is possible, given the built-in limitations of any Government-run news operation...