{"id":24943,"date":"2017-03-31T06:39:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T10:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24943"},"modified":"2017-03-31T06:39:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T10:39:29","slug":"dan-robinson-voice-of-america-has-never-been-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/dan-robinson-voice-of-america-has-never-been-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Robinson: “Voice of America has never been independent”"},"content":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post <\/em>contributor, Dan Robinson<\/a>, is the former White House, Congressional and foreign correspondent for the Voice of America.<\/p>\n

I’ve just learned that Dan has authored\u00a0a piece\u00a0in the Columbia Journalism Review titled \u201cSpare the indignation: Voice of America has never been independent<\/a>“:<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/opinion\/broadcasting_board_of_governors_house_trump.php<\/p>\n

I encourage you to read his full article and please direct your\u00a0comments to the original post on the Columbia Journalism Review\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, is the former White House, Congressional and foreign correspondent for the Voice of America. I’ve just learned that Dan has authored\u00a0a piece\u00a0in the Columbia Journalism Review titled \u201cSpare the indignation: Voice of America has never been independent“: http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/opinion\/broadcasting_board_of_governors_house_trump.php I encourage you to read his full article and please direct your\u00a0comments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[406,936,2635,6071,10,182],"class_list":["post-24943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbg","tag-broadcasting-board-of-governors","tag-dan-robinson","tag-state-department","tag-voa","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6uj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63314,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/cjr-reports-voas-quiet-broadcast-to-north-korea-ends-without-explanation\/","url_meta":{"origin":24943,"position":0},"title":"CJR Reports: VOA\u2019s Quiet Broadcast to North Korea Ends Without Explanation","author":"Thomas","date":"July 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Columbia Journalism Review investigates a little-known Voice of America television initiative that quietly broadcast into North Korea from South Korea\u2014until it was recently shut down. 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