Thanks to the Cold War Radio Museum’s recent book acquisitions, I was able to read for the first time Jerome Weidman’s 1946 satirical novel, Too Early to Tell, which had been out of print and unknown to most Voice of America officials and journalists. It is a satire on the Office of War Information (OWI), the World War II U.S.…
Cold War Radio Museum Voice of America Then and Now Historically, partisanship at the Voice of America has been most often associated with Left-wing bias of some of its officials and central English newsroom reporters. By Ted Lipien After leaving the White House in 1961, former President Dwight D Eisenhower condemned a biased Voice of America (VOA) reporter who…
Cold War Radio Museum After leaving the White House in 1961, former President Dwight D Eisenhower briefly alluded in his memoirs Waging Peace (1965) to the Voice of America’s (VOA) wartime record of propaganda collusion with Soviet Russia. As a military leader during World War II, he must have been still upset to have mentioned it years later during the…