Kari Lake will face a harrowing task in fixing a very broken VOA

President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Kari Lake as the next director of the Voice of America brought criticism and applause from partisan media — more proof that the top VOA position has become highly politicized. 

Lake, a former television anchor and unsuccessful political candidate in Arizona, will inherit a handful. Since 2016, VOA English-language programs have portrayed Trump in numerous news reports as a fascist threat to American democracy and the world, greater even than Russia's...