Word: voa
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Chinese officials also implicitly criticized the Voice of America, which broadcasts English- and Chinese-language programming into China. The New China News Agency singled out one VOA report that quoted "independent-minded" U.S. Journalist I.F. Stone as saying that the Chinese demonstrations were a "comfort to dissidents elsewhere." VOA officials defended their decision to broadcast the remark on the grounds that support for the protesters from Stone, a longtime sympathizer with the Peking regime, was news. For all their cautious restraint so far, China's rulers last week seemed to be casting an increasingly disapproving eye on the actions...
...President opened his news conference with a pitch for his 1987 fiscal year budget, and took note of critics who say it is "DOA--dead on arrival." He said those critics only want a tax increase to reduce deficits, adding that any such increase would be "VOA--vetoed on arrival...
...fight back, the Reagan Administration has upped the budget for USIA by 85%, to $795 million in 1985, and launched a six-year $1.3 billion modernization program for the VOA, four of whose transmitters were so old that they had been used by the Nazis in World War II. USIA Director Wick has made combatting Soviet propaganda a personal crusade. On occasion, he has gone overboard. Shortly after taking over the information agency in 1981, he produced a worldwide television extravaganza called Let Poland Be Poland, which featured Frank Sinatra crooning Ever Homeward in pidgin Polish. The show drew howls...
Wick's critics are fearful that he risks turning the supposedly objective VOA into a mouthpiece of right-wing jingoism. Counters USIA Counselor Stan Burnett: "We are advocates. We are supposed to create a public climate for U.S. policy." Wick regrets that he cannot do more. "In an open society like ours, we can't tell the press what to cover. We can't focus on a subject like the Soviets do and just keep hammering away...
...Soviet delegation returning from a visit to the U.S. might be quoted by Radio Moscow as saying that the Americans they met share with them an aim of world peace. The broadcasts in English are now particularly subtle, using announcers who try to sound indistinguishable from those on the VOA or England's BBC World service. This new sophistication, however, does not exclude an unfounded allegation here and there. Soviet media actively spread the word, for example, that the U.S. was responsible for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of former Italian Premier Aldo Moro. In addition, events often have...