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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/24/voice-of-america-donald-trump-propaganda-338790
"I already anticipate your complaints. You believe that the VOA does great work, and deserves something better than the dustbin for its accomplishments. While it’s true the VOA sometimes does great work—its coverage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations are often cited—it sure as hell better given that it employs 1,100 journalists, is budgeted at $250 million annually, and broadcasts in more than 40 languages. (USAGM spends a total of about $800 million.) The relevant question is whether the U.S. government should be in the worldwide propaganda business. I also anticipate objections from those who might cringe at the VOA and its sister institutions being called purveyors of propaganda. The people will bend over backward as they explain how the VOA “firewall” and charter preserve the service’s independence and journalistic credibility. This, of course, is a crock. With one swift swing of his leather-soled shoe, Trump has breached the firewall and smashed its alleged independence, although a lawsuit to block Pack is in the works. As Ralph A. Uttaro wrote in a law journal in 1982, “The Voice of America, no less than Radio Moscow or Radio Prague, endeavors to change the attitudes of its listeners.” [Emphasis added.] Yes, it informs, but the main idea is frame the news to the U.S. government’s benefit. If the only goal was to inform, the government could save everybody a lot of money and bother by rebroadcasting The Associated Press."