Following the lead of Clinton appointees on the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the Bush Administration has decided not to ask Congress for needed funds to continue important international broadcasts around the world.
According to the new 2008 budget proposal, the administration - with the support of Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes - wants to terminate Voice of America broadcasts in Cantonese, Croatian, Georgian, Greek, Thai and Uzbek.
Hughes also plans to axe radio broadcasting to the volatile former Yugoslavia in Albanian, Bosnian, Macedonian and Serbian, and to do the same in apparently unimportant languages like Hindi and Russian.
Source: Bangkok Post.