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I fucking didn't.
Sure, please agitate to shut them down but seriously how the fuck do you come to this conclusion?
His ultimate goal is pretty clear from his last sentence, "It's a relic of the past. We don't need government paid media outlets."
Which I think is true in the sense that it's openly government funded. How is RFA, RFE, VOA, etc. useful at all compared to a podcast or some other kind of "independent" media outlet with way less obvious funding sources? I imagine they get more bang for their buck from funding media that appears grassroots. People get news by watching YouTube, looking at social media, etc. and there are other organizations that are way better at that stuff than RFA, etc. And the actual stories that those channels talk about can be written by mainstream western media outlets or US government aligned local outlets in other countries. Why does it need to be RFA specifically? Maybe I'm not familiar with the role of RFA compared to other outlets.
They might as well just get rid of the whole USAGM ecosystem and spend the money paying other outlets to do the propaganda-making they do instead, or spend the money more covertly.
I feel like this is kind of missing the part about how much respected publications pick up things from like Radio Free Asia. Like sure you can get Joe Rogan to believe whatever but at least for the time being there's a sizeable element of people that will believe like the NYT but not Joe Rogan
If I was an evil ghoul in charge of the US government and just had 100% of that much respected American corporate media swear their undying fealty to me in exchange for being permitted to continue existing, I would just start sending them all the dogshit propaganda directly.
You don't have to cite RFA or Adrian Zenz anymore, you can dump some out of context photos and pretend it's a real NYT scoop dug up by a half dozen hardworking real journalists in-country instead of it being blatantly obvious it's just some dingdong in Australia just drawing circles on random satellite photos and making shit up.
please think of the careers of Australian dingdongs 😢