Pompeo calls on VOA to trumpet American exceptionalism as journalists at the service warn of propaga
Source: Washington Post
The Voice of America, the government-funded international news organization, is the “voice of American exceptionalism,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the troubled agency Monday.
“It is not fake news for you to broadcast that this is the greatest nation in the history of the world and the greatest nation that civilization has ever known,” he said.
Pompeo’s address to a small group of employees in the agency’s auditorium, limited because of coronavirus restrictions, was also broadcast around the world on VOA’s 47 foreign language channels and video streams, and on its website and social media.
After the planned speech was announced, a group of staffers wrote in an anonymous whistleblower complaint that the gathering posed a health risk, and that orders to broadcast the speech amounted to dictating “propaganda.”
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