U.S. and International Media
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The Trump administration’s proposed Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2020 calls for a significant cut of $180 million in the FY2020 budget of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) which…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary Various niche media outlets were reporting last week on new serious allegations against the leadership and some of the journalistic staff at the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s (USAGM) Voice of America and Radio Free Europe…
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BBG – USAGM Watch History March 12 is the anniversary of the death in 2003 of Howard Fast, American writer and journalist, Communist Party USA member and the 1953 receipient of the Stalin International Peace Prize, worth about $235,000 in…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary UPDATE In yet another news reporting failure for the Voice of America, BBC, Russia’s RT and SPUTNIK and many other media have already posted reports about the U.S. House of Representatives voting to condemn “hateful…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA), which repeatedly broadcast one-sided attacks by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Donald Trump, has been completely silent for the last few days on its VOA News English website…
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GUEST BBG – USAGM WATCH COMMENTARY Silencing Steve Bannon By Sasha Gong It is hard to imagine anyone being able to shut him up, but U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) in the hands of Obama-era appointees…
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OPINION It’s Alive! The U-SAG-M Dystopia By The Federalist “Dystopia” has a broad range of definition. In part, it is used to describe “…a place, society or situation in which (the reality of) conditions and the quality of life are…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary According to sources in the Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service and friends of former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon, a few months ago VOA China Branch recorded a nearly one-hour-long interview with Bannon…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary At one time Chief Strategy Officer, Dr. Haroon Ullah was constantly seen in public with U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO John F. Lansing, but sources tell BBG – USAGM Watch that Dr. Ullah…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has ignored “The Donald” pro-President Trump exhibition in Albania by Albanian artist Avni Delvina which has attracted attention from Albanian and international media. The artist lives in…
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USAGM Watch Commentary On January 31, 2019, the lead paragraph in a news report issued to the whole world by the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) shouted: “A suspected hate-fueled assault on Jussie Smollett, a black, gay and Jewish…
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USAGM Watch Commentary On a Twitter account showing news from the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), a federal government employee who is a veteran Central English Newsroom VOA reporter posted a “@VOA” tweet which said in part in reference…
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BBG Watch Commentary 美国之音给您拜年啦！美国之音台长贝内特、中文部主任托瑞埃罗和其他语言组的同仁祝您🐷年身体健康、合家欢乐、万事如意！！！ pic.twitter.com/0aJwkGAgWx — 美国之音中文网 (@VOAChinese) February 3, 2019 VOA Director Amanda Bennett’s Chinese New Year Greeting Backfires By Anonymous VOA China Branch Reporter Note: VOA journalist who wrote this commentary wants to remain anonymous…
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BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded (Annual budget: $234.7 million; Employees: 1,078) Voice of America (VOA), managed by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), violated its VOA Charter, which is U.S. law, and its own Journalistic Code when it posted…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a new video from U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which is managed by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an Iranian journalist for RFE/RL’s Radio Farda declared with strong conviction that in Iran…
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OPINION Issues in the News: Royce Report on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads U.S. International Media: Information War Lost by USAGM By The Federalist “…Oversight is not a game. It is a core constitutional function,…
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