Once again, I believe that's a perfectly acceptable reason to give for shutting down or reinventing the service. I'm not here to defend VOA. I would love to have Kari Lake or anyone connected to the administration say that the VOA is using fraudulent or unverifiable audience data. That alone would be enough to warrant congressional review of the system. But that's not what they're saying, and that's not why they shut it down. The fact that the courts have mandated the return of funding to these services gives the administration the opportunity to use some of that money to at least commission an industry study of the system. That would give them a real reason to either shut it down or reinvent it. That was even called for in Project 2025. But instead, Kari Lake sits at home all day on a government salary making political posts on social media.
You would think with all of the people in this administration who at one time worked in the media, who have that experience in their background, that maybe one of them would use that experience to talk about the media they now regulate. Rather than use political or ideological language. The only time it ever comes up is when the president talks about ratings. But then he uses ratings to further his ideology.
