Trump’s voice disassembly of America could lead to the dominance of anti-American propaganda, says the director star-news.press/wp

Washington – President Trump’s disassembly From a voice funded by governments, the Road for America’s opponents to have a greater impact abroad, the director of the Michael Abramowitz agency.

After Mr. Trump signed the executive that seeks to cut cuts at the largest international broadcaster, about 1300 employees, including Abramowitz, learned over the weekend, and another 500 performers. Mr. Trump accused the news agency, which began broadcasting during World War II, the spread of “radical propaganda”.

In an interview with CBS news on Monday, Abramowitz called the VOA “an incredibly important tool of soft energy”, that would be shuttered, that would be a “self-inflicted blow to the National Security, as the News of Voa helps to fight the Chinese, Russian and Iranismanism.

“If America pulls the field for playing and perform him on our opponents, then he will tell the narratives that people around the world will be heard, and that can’t be good for America,” he said. “They will hear an anti-American narrative. We will have to fight the truth.”

VOA reports the news about the US in almost 50 languages ​​- with a higher focus trained in countries that lack free printing. According to the law, no air not air in the USA, but information programming is widely overlooked – with an audience of about 360 million people weekly around the world.

“We pass to the audience that could otherwise hear propaganda,” Abramowitz said, adding that many journalists were from the countries under authoritarian control. “The main challenge for the United States is this global information war in which countries like China and Russia really really have our lunch. So, I really feel the organization that is accurate, impartial, objective and speaking of America to the rest of the world in the languages ​​they understand.”

“It was never more important with the sea lies and misinformation that happen around the world,” he added.

However, Abramowitz admitted that the VOA, which has an annual budget of $ 270 million, can be reformed and that it should not be resistant to change. “

“I’m not saying it must be the way it was always,” Abramowitz said. “Change is big. The change is required. The change is required.”

“I don’t mean personally I don’t think it’s a waste of money taxpayers,” he claimed. “Does that mean $ 270 million budget? Maybe it could be ($ 240 million), maybe it might be ($ 200 million). Look, we’re in the era where we taxpayer He expects less, more modernized, simplified governments. ”

He defended Vos journalists as a non-partisan and said whether they caught any bias, it was against totalitarianism, tyranny and authoritarianism.

“If you care about free IranIf you care about more openness in ChinaIf you care about freedom in Russia, if you care about freedom Venezuela And Nicaragua, then you have an incredibly important tool in Voa to help withdraw and get precise and objective information in those places that don’t “, he said.” That’s incredibly important. ”