Tianamen Square Reminds Us Not to Turn VOA into Pravda

The LA Times reports today that as we near the twenty-fifth anniversary of Tiananmen Square, people in China are using clandestine ways to commemorate the event. In the Opinion section, Al Pessin, a Voice of America journalist who was ejected from China for his coverage of Tianamen Square warns that

You can't win respect and communicate if no one is listening, and people will stop listening if Congress transforms VOA into a Russian- or Chinese-style state broadcaster.

But, unfortunately, that's exactly what one member of Congress has suggested. Ed Royce, the Representative from California's 39 District has filed a bill that would direct Voice of America to report the news in a fashion "consistent with and promotes the broad foreign policies of the United States."

There's a word for that, Mr. Royce. It's propaganda.

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