Kari Lake says OAN's far-right coverage will fuel Voice of America

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Source: NPR

May 7, 2025 5:00 AM ET


Senior presidential adviser Kari Lake appears to have resolved any doubts about what she wants to do with the Voice of America. Lake seeks for it to look and sound a lot like the far-right One America News Network: on Tuesday night she announced that she had struck a deal to serve up the pro-Trump outlet's news reports for Voice of America's foreign audiences, at no taxpayer cost.

"I can ensure our outlets have reliable and credible options as they work to craft their reporting and news programs," Lake wrote on social media posts on Elon Musk's X and on Truth Social. "And every day I look for ways to save American taxpayers money. Bringing in OAN as a video/news source does both." OAN President Charles Herring did not immediately reply to NPR's message seeking confirmation, but he did retweet Lake's post. The reaction from agency and network veterans was swift and indignant.

'A mockery of the agency's history'

"Kari Lake providing One America News Network to our global audiences makes a mockery of the agency's history of independent non-partisan journalism," former U.S. Agency for Global Media Chief Financial Officer Grant Turner tells NPR. Since World War II, the Voice of America has provided news coverage and cultural programming to lands across the globe without access to a free press, serving an audience that has grown to more than 360 million people weekly.

Its charge - established by Congress - is to incorporate criticism of the government's official line to convey the news in its complexity but also to model what a pluralistic democracy looks like. Since March, however, the Voice of America has been stilled, on the order of Trump and Lake. Her announcement called the parent agency "a giant rot and burden to the American taxpayer."

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5389453/kari-lake-says-oans-far-right-coverage-will-fuel-voice-of-america

[Traildogbob]

1. Go the fuck away

You dunk. Can some one invent an aerosol spray of “Lake be gone”? Take a damn hint Loser!

[underpants]

2. She's being very transparent here. Counter the perceived bias with bias.

Got it.

[LiberalArkie]

3. Well she will manage to make the U.S. loose any partners it has in the world, except maybe N. Korea, Somolia and Isreal.

I wonder how many generations it will take for the U.S. to regain the most favored nation, if ever.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Because there aren't enough Nazis/White Supremacists in the military

and around the world.

[jls4561]

5. How big is the bribe, you lying loser? The ONAN network doesn't even pretend to be

Other than facist porn.

And neither do you, Kari

[Brainfodder]

6. Be sure to make sure to always ask him twice to vouch for himself as his own source, OK Kari!

It would be so irresponsible to not get that strong point across and you know how much he likes strong.