Censured by the VOA on how VOA's foreign journalists are being expelled

[icymist]

‼️I got censured by the US public broadcaster @VOANews. All VOA services received orders yesterday to unpublish/not publish my interview to Mauricio Claver-Carone, Special Assistant to President Trump, on how VOA's foreign journalists are being expelled from the country. [Thread]

...For context,I explained in this other thread the critical situation in which @VOANews foreign-born journalists are in. The federal agency that oversees VOA @USAGMgov is trying to expel dozens of these journalists from the US. Some,to repressive countries👇

READ AND SHARE: Michael Pack, CEO of the federal agency that oversees @VOANews is putting foreign jouranalists hired by the US government at risk. He is forcing some of them to go back to non-democratic countries. All this, during a pandemic.

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[Glorfindel]

1. The author needs to learn the difference between "censure" and "censor"

To 'censor' means to remove, block, or interfere with the communication of another. To 'censure', on the other hand, means "to find fault with and criticize as blameworthy."

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/differences-between-censor-and-censure#:~:text=To%20'censor'%20means%20to%20remove,with%20and%20criticize%20as%20blameworthy.%22

I suspect that if he had been censured for his work, he would have received some kind of verbal or written reprimand.

[stillcool]

2. don't know that it matters to you, but...

..at the bottom of the page ...

CLARIFICATION: I meant to say I got *censored. Although, since I got kicked out of the system, I guess I also got censured.