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BBG Watch Commentary In an email sent out to subscribers of its English-language news service, many of whom are Americans, U.S. taxpayer-funded ($221 million in FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) casts doubts whether the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar (formerly…
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BBG Watch Media In an op-ed published in Washington Examiner, Ted Lipien, a former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director who is a co-founder of BBG Watch, makes an argument for reforming the leadership of both VOA and its…
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OPINION Blind Spots Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost By The Federalist The Russians. Yes, always the Russians. To paraphrase one of our colleagues, With their appointments secured under the Obama administration and with no sign…
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BBG Watch Commentary As reported this week by CBS News and other media, Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and unsuccessful Democratic Party candidate for president in 2016, said in discussing her recently published book: “I had not drafted a…
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BBG Watch Commentary As Hurricane Irma hit Florida, Russia’s RT beat U.S. taxpayer-funded ($221 million FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) hands down in news coverage, posts on Facebook, and audience engagement, as did every other major news organization, including…
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BBG Watch Commentary As reported by The Washington Post and others, Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it sold ads totaling $100,000 during the U.S. presidential campaign to a Russian company, believed to be pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda. According to media…
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BBG Watch Commentary Our watch dog website, BBGWatch.com, has passed the 10 million hits mark yesterday since it was first started in September 2008 by former and current Voice of America (VOA) and other Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) journalists…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a Labor Day report about the iconic American labor and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, who throughout her life has advocated for social change through non-violence, U.S. taxpayer-funded ($221 million in FY 2017) Voice of America…
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BBG Watch Commentary “Out of the 5 senior VOA Mandarin Service journalists who were placed on administrative leave 4 months ago, 4 remain on administrative leave with no hope of returning to work. Despite the fact that none have been…
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BBG Watch Ann Noonan, Executive Director for the independent and nonpartisan NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) spoke at the open BBG board meeting in Washington, DC on Wednesday, August 30, 2017, about the VOA Guo Wengui…
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BBG Watch Commentary Former New York Times Beijing Bureau employee, Chinese journalist and political commentator Zhao Yan, told members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) today in Washington how his freelance contract with the Voice of America (VOA) as…
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BBG Watch Commentary It may be nothing more than just one of many web-related mistakes at the mismanaged U.S. taxpayer-funded ($221 million in FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA), but those looking at VOA’s mobile site this morning (August 30,…
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BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE The Voice of America (VOA) is a poorly managed, U.S. taxpayer-funded entity ($221 million in FY 2017) no longer sure about its mission after the Cold War. Run by Obama administration era appointees, some of Voice…
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BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists have sent us a number of examples of recent programs which, in their view, show the U.S. taxpayer-funded organization in a state of poor management and confusion about its…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that the Broadcasting Board of Governors(BBG) made much harder to find on the Internet one of its press releases, which praised North Korean propaganda being promoted in a 2011 Voice of America (VOA)…
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BBG Watch Commentary As of Monday morning, August 28, 2017, even the very liberal Washington Post had a report on Antifa violence in Berkeley, CA, but not the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), which had suggested earlier that Antifa…
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