U.S. and International Media
BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary OPINION U-SAG-M US Agency for Global Media John Lansing Departs By The Federalist John Lansing, the hapless and luckless chief executive officer (CEO) of U-SAG-M (US Agency for Global Madness…err…Media) will be leaving the…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary Ilan Berman, senior vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC, published an op-ed in The Washington Times on what he and many other critics see as the failure of Persian-language media outreach…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO John F. Lansing is leaving his post in a scandal-ridden federal agency shortly after his hand-picked former USAGM chief strategic advisor and right-hand man pled guilty to federal…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. tax-funded Voice of America dispensed—unchallenged—a propaganda lie from Putin’s disinformation specialists claiming that the Soviet Union “saved European democracy” while failing to report on the VOA’s main English news website on the content of…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary As of 3:00 AM Central European time, September 2, 2019, the U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA) has ignored on its main VOA English-language news website and most of its foreign-language news websites the content…
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By Ted Lipien Today, August 23, marks the 80th anniversary of the signing of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Communist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Also known as the Hitler-Stalin Pact, it led to the launch of World War…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Media Commentary The Voice of America should be completely nonpartisan and objective as a source of accurate and balanced news. It should focus mostly on countries experiencing press censorship and countries of strategic interest to the…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary “Multiple Voice of America (VOA) reporters have repeatedly posted anti-Trump comments on their professional Twitter accounts, despite a social media policy requiring employee impartiality on social media platforms,” The Daily Caller reporter Shelby Talcott wrote…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary In 1948, Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate charged that Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts contained “baloney,” “lies,” “insults,” “drivel,” “nonsense and falsehoods,” “trash,” amounting to “useless expenditures” and “a downright tragedy.” They were…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary Secret Facebook Pages and Twitter Blockers at USAGM By BBG – USAGM Watch Contributor Senior VOA Reporter Was Forced to Reverse Twitter Block of Watchdog Site; Agency Operated or Sanctioned Secret…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary His selection as the Press Freedom Editor was praised and announced to the staff on April 1, 2019 by the Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett, but, according to reports in The Dailly Caller,…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Opinion Award-winning reporter and columnist Steve Browne who saw first-hand the beginnings of the progress toward democracy, liberty and tolerance in East-Central Europe only to be followed by a partial reversal of some of…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary The Daily Caller writer Shelby Talcott has an update in a new article on partisan Facebook post by the Voice of America’s Press Freedom Editor who was highly regarded and appointed to his position by VOA…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary In an article for The National Interest website, reporter Shelby Talcott, who recently broke the story on partisan bias and violations of social media policy by some of the U.S. government-employee-editors of taxpayer-funded Voice of America…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary Secret Facebook Pages and Twitter Blockers at USAGM By BBG – USAGM Watch Contributor Senior VOA Reporter Was Forced to Reverse Twitter Block of Watchdog Site; Agency Operated or Sanctioned Secret Facebook…
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