New directors at federal media agency have ties to anti-LGBT groups, fought pro-transgender policies
Source: cnbc
Published Fri, Jun 19 20201:01 PM EDTUpdated Fri, Jun 19 20202:41 PM EDT
Key Points
The board of directors for these media organizations that are overseen by the USAGM have a say on who is selected to become leaders of the companies that they represent.
The move to install Trump loyalists to the board comes after Pack purged longtime board members and executives just weeks after officially becoming USAGM’s new CEO.
Michael Pack, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, has appointed to the organization’s board a person with ties to an anti-LGBT group and another who publicly bashed President Barack Obama’s transgender policy.
The board of directors for these media organizations that are overseen by the USAGM have a say on who is selected to become leaders of the companies they represent. Their ties and previous remarks could give a preview into the way Michael Pack, the CEO of the agency, is remaking the federally funded news organization to fit a more conservative tone.
Democrats, including Sen. Robert Menendez, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, have voiced concern that these moves represent an attempt by Pack to destroy the USAGM. These new board members were brought up in a letter from Reps. Eliot Engel and Nita Lowey, chairs of the House Appropriations Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee, sent to to Pack on Friday. The two lawmakers called on him to provide documents for why he chose to terminate and then replace various career officials at the agency. ...................................
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Maddow did a great segment on this tonight.
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Michael Pack
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