The Truth Dies with Him
The Truth Dies with Him Another voice didn’t tow the Trump line Dan Rather and Team Steady Mar 18 Credit: Getty Images In another sad-but-true-to-form attempt by Donald Trump to silence the truth, he’s gutted a federal agency that broadcasts news around the world — because it wasn’t pro-Trump news or Fox propaganda, but pro-democracy journalism that provides information to parts of the globe where a free press is threatened or nonexistent. He signed an executive order on Friday evening that effectively shuttered the U.S. Agency for Global Media. It is an umbrella organization for federally funded news outlets like Voice of America, which collectively reach 420 million people, in 100 countries, in 63 languages. USAGM’s programming can be read, seen, or heard in dictatorships such as Cuba, China, Russia, and Afghanistan, though not always easily. In North Korea in 2020, a fisherman was executed for secretly listening to Radio Free Asia while at sea. By Monday, 1,000 journalists ...