To the editor: Yet one more nail has been pushed into America’s freedom (“Under Trump, the Voice of America has fallen silent. U.S. enemies are cheering,” March 19). The Voice of America, which has for over 80 years endeavored to deliver untarnished information to its listeners, is now principally silent, with no indication that it’ll return to its former mission.
I get discouraged attempting to persuade individuals of the harmful parallels to what occurred to the information media throughout World Conflict II and what’s clearly occurring in the USA right this moment, however I’ve to maintain attempting.
Throughout my childhood within the Netherlands, whereas that battle was in progress, the media was fully dominated by the Nazi Germans who occupied my nation. The one choice was for individuals to secretly take heed to Radio Oranje, through the British Broadcasting Corp., which had as audio system such individuals as Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, who tried to present residents unbiased information and encouragement.
Is that this the trajectory we should now look ahead to? With newspapers ever so subtly shifting rightward and unbiased radio packages silenced, how are we going to get our information? Will we lastly both must succumb to this authorities’s accredited messages or conceal in our closets to take heed to unlawful packages that counter these, as did my dad and mom?
Anneke Mendiola, Santa Ana
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To the editor: In 1947, I used to be 5 years previous when my dad and mom and I, having survived the Bergen-Belsen focus camp, first moved to an house on a welcoming Irish Catholic road in Brooklyn.
The general public library turned a second residence to me. Someday, my now buddy, the librarian, requested me to hitch two different youngsters to sing a track right into a microphone within the subsequent room. We sang “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” to thousands and thousands of listeners on the Voice of America.
When my son was 10, we took a visit to D.C. to see the sights. We headed straight for the VOA, which was of super curiosity to my son. As a result of I knew his brother, Geoffrey Cowan, the director on the time, generously escorted my excited son and me into the nooks and crannies of the places of work and studios the place we may overhear all that was in progress.
That have opened my son’s eyes to the world, simply because it had finished for me. What an unspeakable loss to the world it is going to be to lose the VOA.
Dorien Grunbaum, Los Angeles
