VOA is a busy place these days...
1. First, VOA's Radio Deewa -- the vibrant, popular 24-hour-a-day Pashto-language program that reaches into Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province. VOA Director Dan Austin -- in a letter published in the New York Times(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/opinion/106voice.html
talked about the reporting Deewa is doing. Dan's letter was a rebuttal of a piece former Pentagon official Doug Feith published in the NYT. Feith claimed that U.S. broadcasting was not around to cover the bombing of the Shrine of Rahman Baba on March 5. Not only did Deewa cover it -- we had three journalists there!
Then, there was Ahmad Babeti's story on CBS's 60 Minutes. Anderson Cooper interviewed Batebi about his time in an Iranian prison. Chilling stuff! Check out the piece on Ahmad's website. http://www.ahmadbatebi.us/
Oh yes -- and check out the new VOA homepage at www.voanews.com
And our coverage of Obama's Town Hall in Turkey.
Meantime, VOA is planning a big Town Hall meeting on May 5 at the Newseum. We're doing this with George Washington University -- more later...
I'm off this week, but checking in remotely. Joan
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