Re: [Swprograms] Tomlinson vs VOA Journalism

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My two cents:

Yes, hame on Tomlinson for being such a duplicitous hack.  Kudos to  
the Concerned VOA Journalists for telling it like it really is.  It's  
the Charter that's the problem for the "independent" (ha!) BBG.   
That's the long and the short of it.

Only in Washington today could a man who committed potentially  
indictable offenses and resigned in disgrace from an analogous  
domestic broadcasting job be given such a prominent role over a vital  
national mission like public diplomacy as practiced through  
international broadcasting.

What he and the BBG don't understand is that it is precisely what VOA  
has been doing all these years that helped gain such a lofty  
reputation for itself in particular and the country and its avowed  
principles in general.  Of course, this crowd neither respects nor  
understands those principles and certain does not trust them.

John Figliozzi

PS:  Sawa most trusted....  what a joke.


On Mar 2, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Glenn Hauser wrote:

> ** U S A. VOICE OF AMERICA IN 21ST CENTURY
>    Letter to the Editor March 1, 2006
>
> I APPRECIATE Boston University College of Communications dean John  
> Schulz’s
> concern in his Feb. 24 op-ed on the Voice of America. There is a  
> great deal of
> nostalgia from those who worked here during the Cold War for the  
> days of
> banging typewriters and shortwave radio. To fight the war on  
> terror, however,
> requires the latest in satellite television technology, FM radio,  
> and the
> Internet.... <snip>
>
> KENNETH Y. TOMLINSON, Washington, D.C.  The writer is chairman of the
> Broadcasting Board of Governor [sic] (Boston Globe via DXLD)
>
> RESPONSE TO TOMLINSON RESPONSE TO BOSTON GLOBE COMMENTARY BY FORMER  
> VOA
> JOURNALIST
>
> Ken Tomlinson's reply to the commentary by former VOA journalist  
> John Schulz
> merely confirms what so many at Voice of America now understand
> about his intentions, and apparently those of the BBG.
>
> Think about it -- NOWHERE in the VOA Charter, or in the VOA  
> Journalistic Code,
> does it state that the mission of the Voice of America is to help  
> fight the
> "War on Terrorism."
>
> Yet, since the 2001 terrorist attacks, the BBG -- with Tomlinson at  
> its helm in
> recent years – has accelerated the dismantling of VOA,
> whose journalists and broadcasters labored for decades to establish a
> reputation for fair and accurate journalism.
>
> VOA, in the view of Tomlinson, deserves to be nothing more than a  
> cog in the
> propaganda machine built up under the BBG, what Tomlinson tries to  
> disguise
> with the description "family of broadcasting entities." <snip>

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