{"id":139743,"date":"2025-04-22T22:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/voice-of-america-and-other-government-funded-networks-must-be-restored-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T22:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:17:59","slug":"voice-of-america-and-other-government-funded-networks-must-be-restored-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/voice-of-america-and-other-government-funded-networks-must-be-restored-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice Of America And Other Government-Funded Networks Must Be Restored, Judge Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/voice-of-america\/\" id=\"auto-tag_voice-of-america\" data-tag=\"voice-of-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voice of America<\/a> employees obtained a reprieve at present, as a federal choose dominated that Trump administration should restore the government-run broadcaster together with different networks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tU.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth dominated that there was an absence of \u201cany analysis whatsoever\u201d within the determination to close down he <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/u-s-agency-for-global-media\/\" id=\"auto-tag_u-s-agency-for-global-media\" data-tag=\"u-s-agency-for-global-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Agency for Global Media<\/a>, which oversees the VOA and different government-funded broadcast entities. President <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> signed an govt order to dismantle the company, and in response, VOA staff have been positioned on administrative go away. That largely halted the VOA\u2019s newsgathering final month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLamberth dominated that the shut down of VOA and the termination of grants to different networks ran afoul of congressional appropriations legal guidelines, amongst different issues. His order is to revive the company\u2019s staff and contractors in addition to grants to Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHis ruling granting a preliminary injunction was in response to a lawsuit introduced by Patsy Widakuswara, the VOA\u2019s White House bureau chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cMy colleagues and I are grateful but we know that this is just a small step forward,\u201d Widakuswara wrote on X. \u201cWe will keep fighting to save VOA!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe choose didn&#8217;t grant an injunction to revive funding to a different entity, Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty. The destiny of that community has been caught up in a dispute over its newest grant renewal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Trump administration has attacked Voice of America because the \u201cVoice of Radical America,\u201d because it has sought to undermine information media normally within the preliminary months of his presidency. Dating to World War II as a counter to Nazi propaganda, VOA has grown into an entity that gives information in 50 languages to an estimated viewers of greater than 354 million folks. The 1994 International Broadcasting Act prohibits U.S. authorities interference within the journalistic operation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Voice of America employees obtained a reprieve at present, as a federal choose dominated that Trump administration should restore the government-run broadcaster together with different networks. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth dominated that there was an absence of \u201cany analysis whatsoever\u201d within the determination to close down he U.S. Agency for Global Media, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1674,9520,4831,2168,9521,2251,2642],"class_list":{"0":"post-139743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-governmentfunded","10":"tag-judge","11":"tag-networks","12":"tag-restored","13":"tag-rules","14":"tag-voice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}