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The VOA is perhaps Doa.
At least that is the interpretation of Lake Kari.
The Lake was running out of success for the governor of Arizona in 2022. He ran for the Senate in 2024 and lost.
Then President Trump appointed Lake to direct the United States agency for global media.
The worst in transmission is dead air. And that may be the goal of Lake: a former TV news presenter from Arizona.
“It really is like a piece of rotten fish,” Lake said before a recent hearing of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives. “And it is better to discard everything and start again.”
She plans to edit the influence of VOA and other government media, such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Cuba Transmission Office, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcast Networks.
“We need to modernize. I don’t think television from the nineties either effective,” Lake said.
The VOA could be done for whether the agency for the special global media advisor Kari Lake comes out with his. (Joe Raedle/Getty images)
The hearing marked the first time Lake testified to the legislators since President Trump took advantage of it for the position. She told the legislators that the Chinese spies infiltrated the Mandarín de la VOA service. And the Russian ghosts almost made the payroll on Radio Free Europe.
“This is not the voice of America. This is the voice of the enemies of the United States,” said representative Andy Barr, R-Ky.
Democrats say that freeing the United States to transmit news and truthful information to the enemy territory.
The representative Brad Sherman, a California Democrat, was apoplectic in the Trump administration plans to cancel many of the government’s radio and television broadcasts of the government abroad.
“My God. It’s the worst and stupid thing we could do in foreign matters,” Sherman said. “That is our soft power. That is our effort to provide freedom of information and with luck democracy to the entire world. This is how we explain in different dozens of languages. And for them to destroy it? In terms of our influence in the world, the voice of the United States and its sister stations is more important than a carrier of airplanes.”
Sherman reiterated his concerns about decreasing soft power at the audience, adding that changes in VOA alignment can attract a special audience abroad.
“I think Putin would be very happy,” Sherman said about him Russian leader. “The bombs are powerful. The truth is more powerful.”
But not only Democrats care about the static in government waves.
The representative Young Kim, R-Calif., Says that unrolling the Radio Free Asia Cedes Power to China and North Korea.
The representative Young Kim, Republican of California, promoted Voa and Radio Free Asia as important pawns in the informative war against China and North Korea. (Anna Rose Layden/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
“We have set aside journalists who have spent decades building their credibility and confidence with our audience,” Kim said. “Without informing from the outside world through VOA and (Radio Free Asia), the majority North Korean Civilians only see the United States as the bad. “
Kim feared that the United States could not “win in the domain of information.”
Lake recently canned 639 Global Media employees. She says her orders come from the top.
Representative Gregory Meeks, DN.Y., the main democrat in the Foreign Affairs Committee, asked what kind of “review” did to recover VOA and other services.
“What we have reviewed was an executive order on March 14 by the man who is in charge of the executive branch. The name of HS is Donald Trump,” Lake said.
Then he lifted a photo of the president and showed it to the legislators who face it on the stage.
The Democrats argue that this is exactly the problem, since the president and the lake try to redesign the US government stations.
“I see why Mr. Trump put it in this position. He doesn’t want a free press,” Representative Madeleine Dean, D-Penn. “You are a propaganda machine for the Trump administration.”
Representative Pramila Jayopal, D-Wash., Accused the Lake of having a “background backup dictators.” (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
The Democrats accumulated.
“I am also worried about its ability to promote American democracy since its background supports dictators,” said representative Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.
Other Democrats He highlighted Lake’s controversial political history and how he questioned the results of both races.
“You have been sanctioned twice for providing false information to the courts. Isn’t it? Yes or no?” Asked the representative Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., The former mayor of Phoenix.
“I was brave enough to fight our poor quality elections. And the courts have not been achieved,” the lake replied.
Trump orders the dismantling of the media media funded by the Government.
“The American people cannot believe a word that you say,” Stanton said. “You lost, fair and square. Instead of granting, you are ashamed of yourself and our state I am again and again for years, blaming everything under the sun for your loss, except for your own toxic policy. You lie about that choice to this day.”
After Lake’s dual political losses, Stanton had a Lake application.
“Will you do us all and you will run it and run again?” asked.
Lake saw some respite from the line of fire in the form of representative Bill Huizenga, Mich Republican. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu through Getty Images)
Lake found a more friendly interrogation of representative Bill Huizenga, Mich Republican. He asked about the possible messages of the US global media. UU. They could transmit throughout the world.
“What do you think some of the most important stories and tenants about the United States that must be told that have not been told?” Huizenga asked.
“I think only the history of this country and what this country is about. Our freedoms. Our freedoms. Bill of Rights“Lake said.
“Maybe the foundation of our country?” Huizenga suggested.
“The foundation of our country and especially this year with 250 years,” Lake replied, noting that July 4, 2025 is the semi-singing of the United States
“That seems like a quite big story to tell,” Huizenga added.
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The Congress commissioned VOA during the Cold War to broadcast news behind the iron curtain. But today, Republicans question their need. Especially when people now receive news from their phone.
“Goddangit is not very efficient,” said representative Tim Burchett, R-Ten.
“It’s a relic,” Lake said.
“Yes, Madam. It is a cold war relic,” Burchett agreed.
The representative Tim Burchett, R-Ten., Called a “relic of the Cold War”. (Getty images)
Voa shot dozens of personnel in his Persian division. But it restored some programming as tensions increased between Iran and Israel – Culminating in the recent air tracks of the United States. But the Persian service of the VOA used to transmit 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Although VOA reinforced some reports in the midst of the crisis, it was a fraction of the work that the organization used to do.
“As I understand, Operation VOA has left almost,” Kim observed at the audience.
“No. It has not gone. We are doing what is legally required,” Lake replied. “The legal minimum.”
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That means that VOA and other services are nothing more than a shell. The Congress will prepare bills for the entire federal government over the next three months. What legislators decide to do with VOA funds and global media will predict the future of organizations. And if the microphones are silent forever.
