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What Trump's silencing of Voice of America means for listeners worldwide | 60 Minutes

2025-03-31 News & Politics
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Voice of America is silent after President Trump effectively shut down the broadcaster. VOA journalists are speaking out about what this could mean for an audience of 360 million around the world. "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the “60 Minutes” YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/1S7CLRu Watch full episodes: http://cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F Get more “60 Minutes” from “60 Minutes: Overtime”: http://cbsn.ws/1KG3sdr Follow “60 Minutes” on Instagram: http://bit.ly/23Xv8Ry Like “60 Minutes” on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1Xb1Dao Follow “60 Minutes” on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1KxUsqX Subscribe to our newsletter: http://cbsn.ws/1RqHw7T Download the CBS News app: http://cbsn.ws/1Xb1WC8 Try Paramount+ free: https://bit.ly/2OiW1kZ For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected]

Top Comments (10)

@nightscout9979 2025-03-31

It's noteworthy that Joe McCarthy also tried to wrongfully get rid of Voice of America.

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@mikeallen585 2025-03-31

As an American living abroad i listened to VOA on shortwave radio for 20 years. It's powerful transmitters could be heard anywhere in the world. It was a beacon of trusted information to listeners all over the world who could not get world news otherwise. Shutting it down is an absolute shot in the foot by the myopic amateurs surrounding trump who i bet have never heard a minute of it's programming.

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@bua2u 2025-03-31

Have worked in media on four continents, and always admired the quality of VOA production both in terms of form and content. This is a major loss for world media.

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@w8lvradio 2025-03-31

Please visit the VOA Museum in Mason, Ohio near Cincinnati.

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@jpgochoco 2025-03-31

So sad..I was barely a teenager when I listened to VOA in the Philippines when the US celebrated their Bicentennial in 1976.

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@DeoOptimoMaximo85 2025-03-31

Greetings from the Netherlands and thank you for sharing this news

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@DaleHawkins 2025-03-31

We are living in scary times. Thank you for your brave reporting.

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@dayitabiradatta5870 2025-03-31

For years I listened to the Jazz Hour hosted by the legendary Willis Conover

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@BarbaraRodriguez-z8j 2025-04-14

Thanks 60 minutes for doing such grate reports

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@conniesmith9732 2025-04-04

Welcome to Hell. Please god give us a miracle to end this war on intelligence.

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