The US media company International (USAGM) is ending songs with giant worldwide information companies, together with the Related Press (AP), Reuters and Agenze France-Precesse (AFP), in accordance with senior administration Advisor Kari Lake.
The lake introduced the motion on social media, stating that it had “moved at this time to cancel costly and pointless newswire contracts” for the company. It criticized using taxpayers’ dollars to fund information organizations overseas, arguing that Usagm ought to produce its information content material.
“Usagm is an American taxpayer-funded information group with an 83-year-old historical past. We do not have to pay overseas information firms to inform us what the information is-with nearly a billion dollars price range, we have now to provide the information ourselves. And if it is snug, the US taxpayer ought to search to know why,” Lake wrote.
Usagm is a US authorities company answerable for transmitting information and data internationally. It supervises some state -funded media, together with Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Center East Transmission Networks and Cuban Transmission Workplace.
The choice to shorten contracts with AP, Reuters and AFP follows the withdrawal of L. Bree Bozell III, a conservative media critic, as the top of Usagm in January after President Trump took workplace. Bozell you could have a member of the primary common and has defended to reshape the US authorities -funded information operations.