Agency for Global Media (USAGM), said more assertive news reporting, especially to China, is needed to counter foreign disinformation and to promote American ideals.

“My plan here, and I think everybody in the White House and everybody else knows this, is to hold these agencies accountable to fulfilling their mission, and in [Voice of America’s] case, its charter, and that’s what I plan to do,” Mr.

Pack, 66, said in an interview with The Washington Times.

Other government-funded outlets under the USAGM are Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks.

The criticism reached an unusual level in April when a White House website posted a statement saying VOA “too often speaks for America’s adversaries — not its citizens.”.

He said American taxpayers were “paying for China’s very own propaganda, via the U.S.

That in turn has fueled liberal complaints that the White House is trying to turn a broadcaster with a reputation for evenhandedness into a propaganda organ for the government.

Pack insisted that he has not been given any marching orders from the White House and has not spoken with Mr.

Pack was forced to wait more than three years to take over the agency formerly known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors because of political delays by Senate Democrats who sought to scuttle his nomination.

Pack on Monday to question the firings at Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, as well as an Open Technology Fund that USAGM oversees.

Pack to respect the independence of the entities and warned that they intended to review USAGM’s funding “to ensure that United States broadcasting is not politicized.”.

The executive position at USAGM was created to fix problems at the old Broadcasting Board of Governors, which was made up of outside executives who ran the broadcasters but were not there full time.

Pack said there was bipartisan agreement by the end of the Obama administration that the agency was poorly run and needed changes.

Pack said his wholesale replacement of top personnel was meant to avoid the appearance of partisanship and to avoid making judgments about the directors’ performance.

“That’s all — not just the Trump side or the anti-Trump side or the left or the right, but all sides of American opinion,” he said.

“If the VOA fulfills their charter, I’m happy and I believe so will the White House be happy,” he added.

Pack said he has heard reports of problems at VOA but has not examined the issues.

Pack said.

Pack said USAGM will be part of a larger U.S.

“The American government writ large, not just USAGM, has to rethink what we want to do about this battle of ideas, information warfare… in the world we’re in,” he said

A specific focus is on China and other countries and areas where the internet and outside broadcasting are blocked or restricted

Pack said broadcasting into China and about China will be a very high priority

“I agree with the assessment that China is our biggest threat in the future,” he said

One potential change is to bolster shortwave broadcasting into China

Pack said

Pack said selecting new executives for the radio services will take time and it is still “pretty early in the process.”

Pack said he intends to shore up some relationships on Capitol Hill after the uproar over his personnel shake-up