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SectionsTVFeaturedMore from NBC Follow NBC News Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday defended a controversial shake-up at the Voice of America and other U.S.-funded broadcasters, lavishing praise on a new CEO who has been rebuked by judges and accused by lawmakers of trampling on journalistic independence.In a speech to VOA staff carried live on the network, Pompeo said that the broadcaster had lost touch with its original mission to tell America’s story to a foreign audience and instead had denigrated the U.S.“Its broadcasts became less about telling the truth about America, and too often about demeaning America,” Pompeo said, without offering examples.“Voice of America has lost its voice, but it’s on the road back,” he said.Michael Pack, the CEO named by President Donald Trump last year to run the parent agency of VOA, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, has faced scathing criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for his sweeping moves at the organization, with press freedom groups warning that he was putting the broadcasters’ editorial independence at risk.But the secretary of state expressed gratitude to Pack, a conservative filmmaker who had once collaborated with former Trump political adviser Stephen Bannon.“Michael, thanks for your leadership of these incredibly important institutions,” Pompeo said.Members of Congress and current and former employees at VOA and other U.S-funded broadcasters, including Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, say Pack has launched investigations of journalists and sought to turn the outlets into a propaganda vehicle for Trump.A federal judge ruled against Pack in November, effectively banning him from making personnel decisions at the media outlets or interfering in editorial operations.

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