Source: Katarzyna Górniak/Fakty TVN
Radio Głos America (VOA) will resume activities – the organization without borders (RSF) reported on Saturday, citing the message of the American Ministry of Justice sent by e -mail. From March, the radio's activity was limited by the ordinance of President Donald Trump.
Key facts:
- In March, the US President signed a regulation limiting the functioning of the Global Media Agency.
- As a consequence of the decision, American Głos Radio Employees were sent for forced holidays.
- Elon Musk also called for the liquidation of Usagm.
In March, the president Donald Trump He signed a regulation ordering the maximum limitation of the activities and staff of the Global Media Agency, responsible for the media for abroad, including Radio Swoboda/Radio Free Europe and the voice of America (VOA).
Dismissals in VOA and other media began on the initiative of the Elon Musk Doge team at the beginning of March and covered, among others, journalists of the Ukrainian voice section of America. According to the Ukrainian correspondent VOA in Facebook Pentagon Ostap Jarysz, he was informed about his dismissal just before entering the antenna.
Now the Department of Justice has reported that on Saturday, previously frozen email accounts of America's voice employees will be activated again, and the Global Media Agency (USAGM) expects “America's voice programs will be resumed next week”.
The federal court suspended mass exemptions
In March, the Federal Court in New York suspended decisions about mass exemptions to lead to the liquidation of the voice of America.
Judge Paul Oetken recognized the attempts to dismantle VOA as a “classic case of arbitrary and capricious decision making” and forbade the authorities “any further attempts to dismiss, reduce employment or forced leave” until further hearings.
The Federal Court in Washington ordered soon after the Global Media Agency to restore the Greens of Radio Greens.
Trump criticizes Usagm
Usagm is responsible for the operation and financing of the media paid from the budget addressed to foreign recipients, especially in countries where there is a lack of independent media or they are limited. Among them are, among others, Television and Radio Głos America (Voice of America, VOA), Radio Free Europa/Radio Swoboda (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia. According to “NYT”, AGM has a budget of $ 270 million, over two thousand employees, and the associated channels in 49 languages.
The media financed by Usagm directed mainly to foreign societies in countries with limited freedom of the press have long been criticized by the Trump camp, as well as by Elon Musk, who called for their liquidation.
Trump and his colleagues claimed that they were a bastion of the “radical left” and critics of the president, as well as “useless elements of federal bureaucracy.”
Formally, Trump cannot eliminate these institutions without the consent of the Congress that appointed them, which is why the administration has so far resorted to such solutions as the withdrawal of subsidies, exemptions and forced leave. The legality of these decisions was questioned in at least three cases by the courts
Author/author: OS/FT
Source: PAP
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