WH plans to nominate conservative documentarian, Bannon ally, to lead Voice of America, Radio Free
This was a Friday night news dump. damn
White House plans to nominate conservative documentarian, Bannon ally, to lead government media agency
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/02/media/bbg-pack-nomination-plan/index.html?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial
by Hadas Gold @CNNMoney June 2, 2018: 1:24 PM ET
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President Donald Trump will nominate a conservative documentarian and Stephen Bannon ally to lead a large government agency that creates and distributes news to more than one hundred countries.
Late Friday, the White House announced its intent to nominate Michael Pack, a former president of the conservative Claremont Institute, to lead the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The board controls US government-funded media outlets like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe and is considered the country's largest public diplomacy program. It reaches an audience of 278 million in more than 100 countries and 61 languages.
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Pack did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Pack is a former Corporation for Public Broadcasting executive, and an ally of Bannon, the former White House chief strategist and head of Breitbart. The two worked on two documentaries together and Pack wrote an op-ed last year praising Bannon as a pioneer in conservative documentary filmmaking. As head of the Claremont Institute, he also acted as publisher of the Claremont Review of Books, which the New York Times once dubbed the "bible of highbrow Trumpism."
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