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...change in tone at the Voice of America. Until recently, as a matter of course, the Government radio network heard round the world in 36 languages reported on opposition stirring within Communist countries. Now Voice executives are trying to avoid "provocative" stories. In the process, they have restricted VGA correspondents to the point where many of the newsmen feel that legitimate stories are being suppressed. Some editors and reporters in the radio's U.S.S.R. division have grumbled about interference from the glavlit-the Russian term for official censor...
Strout, who has appeared as a moderator (at $75 a clip) on Voice of America broadcasts, told the board that he has no intention of abandoning radio: "I said that I thought the VGA was a pretty good thing. I told them that in my judgment, often fallible, they were making a mistake." The board did not agree. In response to the atmosphere created by Watergate, the rule was laid down to keep congressional reporters from being (or seeming to be) too cozy with business or Government. Says Hearst Correspondent Pat Sloyan, a retiring board member...
...brought to it. I hear next year's alarm bell ringing [the election], and I want to get at it." His new job: Washington-based correspondent with a worldwide beat. Terms were not disclosed, but Chancellor was already earning more than double his $24,500 VGA salary on his previous hitch with...
...hand, for broadcasting too much material critical of the U.S.; on the other, for trying to sell America too hard. When Chancellor's predecessor, Henry Loomis, quit last March, he criticized the Administration for making the Voice too propagandistic. Chancellor says that he intends to maintain VGA's objectivity, reporting the bad as well as the good side of the news about the U.S. Johnson says he wants the same thing, though it can be argued that the Voice of America should not go out of its way to reflect the criticism of U.S. policies so regularly published...