U.S. and International Media
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Lawyers for a former top strategic advisor at the federal agency overseeing U.S. foreign-directed media and broadcasting, are asking a federal judge to allow him to serve a 60 day sentence, to which he has…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary Lax supervision by former government executive John F. Lansing, who now runs NPR, allowed his former top aide Dr. Haroon Ullah at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which was formerly known as the Broadcasting…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary FOR BACKGROUND SEE: NBC’s Andy Lack visited Ukraine as US official in charge of Voice of America — Firewall Breached Part I Voice of America Ukraine Expert Called Joe Biden…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary FOR BACKGROUND SEE: NBC’s Andy Lack visited Ukraine as US official in charge of Voice of America — Firewall Breached Part I Voice of America Ukraine Expert Called Joe Biden A ‘Good…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary NBC’s Andy Lack visited Ukraine as US official in charge of Voice of America — Firewall Breached Part I Andy Lack, the chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, where contested accusation of…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Experts critical of Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyib Erdoğan have raised alarm that a few days ago a German journalist was attacking “activist” journalists, accusing them of spreading online fake news in a…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary A report posted online by the Voice of America (VOA) implied that President Donald Trump may have not known that VOA still exists when he mentioned the tax-funded ($250 million FY19), U.S. government-managed media outlet…
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EXCLUSIVE BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary News BBG – USAGM Watch was able to confirm that Jeff Shell, former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) chairman, has resigned his position on the Board of Governors of the U.S. Agency for Global…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Media Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, argues in her most recent article in the Daily Signal that Michael Pack’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearing advances the prospect of reforming U.S….
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BBG – USAGM Watch Media From Miami Herald:
BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary Michael Pack, President Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which includes the Voice of America (VOA) and other taxpayer-funded media entities serving audiences overseas, testified Thursday before the U.S….
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing for Michael Pack to be confirmed by the full Senate for the position of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO has been scheduled for September 19, 2019. A…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) Executive Director Ann Noonan has criticize one-sided, anti-U.S. and pro-China message from the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA). Representing her non-partisan, independent NGO, Ann Noonan spoke on Wednesday…
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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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