Funding cuts hit on freedom of speech
It felt like a punch in the gut when President Donald Trump cut all funding from the VOA (Voice of America). The VOA has been sending our news all around the world for over 80 years and they didn’t dress us up in our Sunday best when we erred. It didn’t matter if a Democrat or Republican was in the White House. VOA kept broadcasting the truth. It’s the only news many countries were able to get that wasn’t their countries’ propaganda. They heard the truth about their own countries, too. Now all funding has been cut from NPR (National Public Radio) and PBS (Public ...