“I think this, coupled with other reductions, amounts to nothing less than a coup de grace for the nation’s largest publicly funded overseas network.”
That’s former VOA official Alan Heil speaking to the Washington Post about moves by the IBB, reported here last week, to deemphasize English radio broadcasts, among other services, in favor of services in the Middle East and to fight terrorism.
Critics Bewail Cuts in ‘Mother Tongue’ at VOA
Critics Bewail Cuts in 'Mother Tongue' at VOA
