Tony Thomas has an excellent Quadrant essay on how USAID has been corrupting journalists on a global scale.
We are inundated with UDAID information at the moment, but the whole piece is very well worth reading as an insight into the scale of global media corruption. The role of the BBC is in there too - always interesting for Brits, but rarely unexpected.
All the News That’s Fit to Twist
Elon Musk was wrong to say the US Agency for International Development (USAID) had funded ($US32,000) a comic book in Peru promoting trans guys in frocks. My own fact-check shows that the funder was actually the State Department, and the protagonist in Peru’s The Power of Education comic (above) was a gay super-hero, not a transitioner. See here.[1]
My main interest in the USAID boondoggle is how it’s been corrupting journalists on a global scale. That’s what this essay’s about.
USAID from its $US40-billion budget allocated $US268 milion last year alone to propping up global “independent” media, better called “dependent”. USAID was supporting 6,200 journalists in nearly 1,000 outlets. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) unblushingly complained that Trump has plunged NGOs, media outlets, and journalists doing ‘vital work’ into chaotic uncertainty.
All the News That’s Fit to Twist
Elon Musk was wrong to say the US Agency for International Development (USAID) had funded ($US32,000) a comic book in Peru promoting trans guys in frocks. My own fact-check shows that the funder was actually the State Department, and the protagonist in Peru’s The Power of Education comic (above) was a gay super-hero, not a transitioner. See here.[1]
My main interest in the USAID boondoggle is how it’s been corrupting journalists on a global scale. That’s what this essay’s about.
USAID from its $US40-billion budget allocated $US268 milion last year alone to propping up global “independent” media, better called “dependent”. USAID was supporting 6,200 journalists in nearly 1,000 outlets. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) unblushingly complained that Trump has plunged NGOs, media outlets, and journalists doing ‘vital work’ into chaotic uncertainty.
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