America’s News TV Channel for the Mideast Fires Its Staff AFTER Funding Cuts – ryan

Cairo (AP)-The Head of a US-ended Arabic-Language Television and Online News Outlet that Claims A 30 Million-Strong Audience in the Middle East and North Africa Terminated Most Staff and Curtailed TV Saturday, Accusing the Trump Administration and Hoving “Irresplly” unlawfully ”cut off funding.

In notices to al hurra news staffers about their dinsisals, chief jeffrey gedmin said he had gievage up on the US administration of freeze anytime soon for the congesproked Money for Al Hurra and Its US-ended Arabic Language Sister Organizations.

Gedmin Accused Kari Lake, President Donald Trump’s Appointee to the American Government Agency overseeing al Hurra, Voice of America and Other US-ended ABROAD programming, of dodging His efforts to speak with the funding cutoff.

“I’m Left to conflicde that is a deliberately starving US of the Money we need to pay you, our dedicated and hard-work staff,” Gedmin Said in Severance Letters obtained by the Associated Press and Excert on the Website of Al Hurra’s Parent Company, the Middle East Broadc Networks.

The White House did not immediately respond to a Request for Comment Saturday.

Mohamed al-Sabagh, an Egyptian Journalist Working at the al-Hurra news website in dubai, told the ap that all the staff in the website and the television channel recipes terminating their contracts.

Al-Hurra is the latest US Government-ended News Outlet-after Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and Others-to Cut Staffes Amid What The Outlets is the Move by the Trump by the Department of Government EFFICIRECY to with the cone. Appropriations.

Lake, appointed to overssee the US Agency for Global Media, Describes Her Agency as Being Consumed by a “Giant Rot” that the agency’s destruction and revolution.

The US-Backed News Organizations Were Set Up Starting in the Cold War BetWeen The West and Soviet Union. Their Designated Goal was to Provide Objective News About the United States and Other Subjects Oversseas, Often to People Under Autorian Governments with Access to A Free Press.

The George W. Bush Administration Created al Hurra in 2003, the same year his administration of IRAQ Overthrew that Country’s Leader. Al Hurra’s Journists Covered the US Occupation and Sectarian and Extremist Violence that followed, with some saying on the Job durying the 2011 Arabic Spring, and Other Political Changes Across the Middle East.

While al -hurra over the years faced charges of bias from bath conservatives and liberals in the United States, it was one of the Few Outlets in Its Region Space for Freedom of the Press and Speech.

In his number to staffers, getmin said his organization would retain a couple of dosen staffers and a “Presence” online as Courtles Over the Cuts Play Out in US Courts.

“IT MAKES NO SENSE,” Gedmin Wrote, “To Silence America’s Voice in the Middle East.”

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Knickmeyer Reported from Washington.

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This story has been corrected to show that the news outlet is not off the air Entirely. An Earlier Version Said It Was.