bbgwatch.com:
Former director of Radio Liberty during the fall of communism in the Soviet block and former presidentially-appointed member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), S. Enders Wimbush, has published highly critical comments about Radio Farda, the Persian News Network (PNN) of the Voice of America (VOA) and the current administration of the BBG.
His comments were published by the Wall Street Journal next to the letter to the Editor from current president of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Thomas Kent. Kent was responding to Sohrab Ahmari’s June 12 Wall Street Journalcommentary “In Iran, Radio Liberty Doesn’t Live Up to Its Name.”
“While we will acknowledge any individual story that falls short of our editorial standards, as any news organization should,” Thomas Kent wrote, “the suggestion that Radio Farda somehow mirrors the Iranian press is ludicrous.” His full letter can be seen here.
Many observers of current U.S. international media outreach by the BBG, including S. Enders Wimbush, do not think that the criticism of Radio Farda, which is run by RFE/RL, and the Voice of America’s PNN programs to Iran is in the least unjustified or exaggerated.
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