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Voice Of America And Other Government-Funded Networks Must Be Restored, Judge Rules


VOA has been shut down since last month.

The Voice of America staff got a reprieve today, as a federal judge ruled that Trump administration must restore the government-run broadcaster along with other networks. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that there was an absence of “any analysis whatsoever” in the decision to shut down he U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the VOA and other government-funded broadcast entities. Dating to World War II as a counter to Nazi propaganda, VOA has grown into an entity that provides news in 50 languages to an estimated audience of more than 354 million people.

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