U.S. and International Media
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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BBG – USAGM Watch History This Cold War Radio Museum post includes a full transcript and an MP3 audio file of the 1969 Voice of America Apollo 11 radio documentary “Eagle on the Moon” broadcast produced after the mission. The…
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BBG – USAGM Watch History You can listen to the entire Voice of America “Eagle on the Moon – the Flight of Apollo 11” 1969 documentary radio broadcast in a 2019 Cold War Radio Museum video which combines the original…
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Cold War Radio Museum’s 2019 rendition with NASA photographs of the Voice of America (VOA) 1969 special radio broadcast “Eagle on the Moon – The Flight of Apollo 11.” Written and produced in 1969 by VOA’s Michael A….
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary According to an article by The Daily Caller reporter Shelby Talcott, Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett and her boss, U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO, John Lansing, both of them appointed during…
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