U.S. and International Media
This comment from Joseph Buday, a former Voice of America English Newsroom editor and manager, was made in response to a petition protesting the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) plans to end VOA radio broadcasts to Tibet, to close down…
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The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency which runs the Voice of America broadcasts and other U.S. government-funded news and information programs for overseas audiences, does not like Cantonese-language radio and TV, and neither does the communist regime…
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Guest Commentary by Edite Lynch. Ms. Lynch lives in Canada. Her parents were refugees from totalitarianism. Show Humanity For decades America and America’s people, her virtues, her values, her free market economy, her many freedoms provided direction, focus and a…
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This announcement was first published by the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB). Link Open Letter to Members of House Appropriations Committee Dear Members of Congress: This letter is to request your strong support to restore the funding in the…
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This commentary was sent to BBG Watch by a Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty journalist who uses Jan Palach as his pen name. After the budget announcement meeting from two weeks ago, my colleagues and I now know what our…
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“The Georgian Service of the Voice of America is demoralized,” a VOA staffer wrote to BBG Watch. It is one of many VOA English and language services slated for unprecedented cuts and reductions in the FY2013 budget proposed by the…
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BBG Watch News Commentary Rep. Walter B. Jones (R-NC) is asking the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to modernize the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station in Greenville, North Carolina, but sources tell us that his request is not likely to…
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“More than 30 years have passed since Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about the “Soft Voice of America” in an article that first appeared in National Review on April 30, 1982. Incredibly, today we appear again to be headed in the direction…
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BBG Watch Commentary An old Soviet-era joke went something like this: “This is Armenian Radio; our listeners asked us: ‘Why do we need two central newspapers, Pravda (Truth) and Izvestiya (News) if both are organs of the same Party?’ We’re…
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“The [Buddhist] monks [in Tibet] listen secretly to Voice of America’s Tibetan service news every night, despite feeling almost physical pain at the bleak news.” – NPR reporter Louisa Lim As reported for National Public Radio (NPR) by Louisa Lim,…
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Several recent media reports point to serious problems at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), its Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts to Iran and VOA Russian website. Russian Accuses Voice Of America Of Fake Interview by MICHELE KELEMEN Critics blame…
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The independent BBGWatch.com website has had over 200,000 hits in the first five months since it was launched by current and former BBG employees and other free media and human rights volunteers. We at the BBG Watch website team want…
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Ted Lipien, a former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director, has been warning for some time that marketing and staffing policies pushed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) executives have changed the focus of VOA and other BBG…
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NPR’s Michele Kelemen, a former employee of Voice of America, reported on the recent VOA Russian Service interview with a leading Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny which he later described as “100 percent fake” and complained that VOA “went nuts.”…
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Chinese regime officials don’t like Chinese media use of Cantonese language and neither does the Obama Administration for Voice of America news programs to China. The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency in charge of U.S. international broadcasts,…
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A Voice of America journalist who uses a pen name Mary Jane has posed this problem: As we stand on the precipice of collapse, crumbling and leaderless, fearing for our jobs while simultaneously wishing to be released from this torturous…
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