The last few days of the Trump presidency and he, Trump, seems to be trying to make life miserable for the incoming president ……..
We hear all about the government purges….how politicians rid themselves of troublesome opponents…..(Stalin comes to mind)….well the US government news media is NO different since Trump boy toy has taken over command….
In June, a Steve Bannon ally and conservative filmmaker appointed by President Donald Trump took over running the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), a vast international network of news agencies funded and operated by the US government.
Within hours of introducing himself to employees, the new CEO, Michael Pack, purged four top officials. He then went on to ban visas for certain foreign reporters and began investigating journalists at the agency for suspected anti-Trump bias. In October, he announced he was eliminating the agency’s regulatory “firewall” — longstanding internal policies aimed at protecting the editorial independence of journalists at the agency from political interference from the government.
Critics accused Pack of abusing his power to turn America’s state-run news organizations, whose mission is to disseminate factual, unbiased news to people who live in countries where freedom of the press is either strongly curtailed or nonexistent, into Trump-friendly propaganda outlets.
While Pack and his team haven’t achieved a pro-Trump project, a federal watchdog has found accusations of gross mismanagement to be credible.
In letters to 11 whistleblowers on Wednesday night, the US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) — an investigative and prosecutorial government body — revealed that it had found “a substantial likelihood of wrongdoing” at the USAGM, which oversees four media organizations: Voice of America, Middle East Broadcasting, Radio Free Asia, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
https://www.vox.com/2020/12/3/22150002/special-counsel-whistleblower-global-media
This seems to be a common thread running through the Trump administration…..MISMANAGEMENT.
Plus the use of overt propaganda is a common thread as well…..NO fact based information.
And the mental midgets dance to their doom.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Sounds to me as if they are lining ready up to savage Biden as soon as he takes office.
Best wishes, Pete.
It is what the GOP does….chuq
*Typo* ‘Lining up ready’.