“Voice of America? Does that still exist?”
You wouldn’t think so from this op-ed that begins “Radio Free Europe? Does that still exist?.”
Anne Applebaum praises Radio Free Europe [sic - never using its real name: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Inc.], while completely ignoring the Voice of America, that does much of the same work as RFE.
Which begs the question: why does the United States have two (and more) international broadcasting entities with overlapping outputs? Warning: don’t fall for the line that the “surrogate” Radio Free stations provide news about the listeners’ country, while VOA broadcasts only information about the United States. If that were true, listeners would have to tune to two U.S. stations to get all the news. Listeners won’t put up with such nonsense.
For more about the Applebaum piece, see my post at kimandrewelliott.com.
