Richard Carlson, an impactful journalist who won a Peabody Award for his investigative reports, passed away at 84 from pneumonia in Boca Grande, Fla. He was recognized for his work with Voice of America during significant Cold War years, passionately advocating for the role of independent journalism globally, especially in repressive regimes. Carlson’s son, Tucker Carlson, shared that he was unaware of President Trump's efforts to dismantle the agency, which continues to deliver news in dozens of languages. In 1988, he emphasized how essential it was to provide intellectual nourishment to those starved for information.
He was referring to the cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who championed artistic freedom in the Soviet Union.
Voice of America provides news programming in 49 languages to dozens of countries where citizens have limited access to independent journalism, including China and Iran.
Our most important job is supplying what Maestro Rostropovich once described as daily bread for people, and that is what we are doing, intellectually feeding hungry people.
Richard Carlson, who won a Peabody Award for his investigative television reports about an automobile company's brazen fraud during which he also outed the company's founder as a transgender woman.
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