Vladimir Putin’s aggressive return to Cold War propaganda is feeding congressional momentum for a bipartisan overhaul of Voice of America, the federal broadcast outlet that has long jockeyed between providing independent, credible news and meeting its statutory mission as official supporter of the United States. This is not always an easy balance, and a measure approved last month by the House Foreign Affairs Committee would explicitly tighten the definition of the V.O.A.’s mission so that its news “is consistent with and promotes the broad foreign policies of the United States.”
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