U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA) under holdover Obama administration director Amanda Bennett appears to continue its selective censorship of Chinese billionaire businessman Guo Wengui and threatens with firing VOA Mandarin Service journalists who had resisted her…
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BBG Watch Guest Commentary As Americans observed Thanksgiving, employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) no doubt celebrated the fact that they still have jobs in what remains, according to the latest Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, one of…
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BBG Watch Commentary An Iranian-American journalist observed on Facebook that the Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service was not reporting for several days on the California fires which affected the Iranian-American community near Los Angeles. In her Facebook post, she…
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BBG Watch Commentary At the open meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) on November 14, Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) Executive Director Ann Noonan once again asked presidentially-appointed Board members who advise CEO John Lansing and other…
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BBG Watch Media Report and Commentary A local American newspaper has posted a profile of radio and television broadcaster Blanquita Walsh Cullum who had served as one of the presidentially-appointed and Senate-confirmed members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)….
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BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) and its parent federal agency, United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), did not answer a media inquiry question as to why VOA and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Radio…
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BBG Watch Commentary An act of interference with domestic press by Federal U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), formerly called Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), is still keeping a watchdog website domain names, USAGMWatch.com and USAGMWatch.org, unavailable for use by…
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BBG Watch Commentary According to Iranian-American Mahtab Farid, neither the U.S. tax-funded and Federally-managed Voice of America (VOA) nor Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Radio Farda, both of them overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM),…
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BBG Watch Commentary No Mention on Tax-funded VOA News Website of Possible Blexit Plenty of One-Sided Left-Wing Propaganda from Voice of America Photo of Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett holding an USAGM umbrella (United States…
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BBG Watch Commentary A leaked rehearsal video for the Russian-language Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)-Voice of America (VOA) television news program “Current Time” is being exploited in the broadcasting region to embarrass the program’s staff. “Current Time” is…
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BBG Watch Guest Commentary By Huchen Zhang Valentine’s Day (February 14), 2011 was the darkest day in the history of the Voice of America (VOA) China Branch. It was on that day that employees of the branch heard from VOA…
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BBG Watch Commentary United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Obama Administration holdover CEO John F. Lansing took no effective counter-measures despite being repeatedly warned since 2015 about egregious violations of journalistic standards, extreme partisanship shown by some Federal and…
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BBG Watch A Tribute to Marie Ciliberti By Ted Lipien I am sad to report that former Voice of America broadcaster Marie Ciliberti has passed away. For many years, she was one of my closet confidential advisors on employee issues…
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BBG Watch Guest Commentary This article is reposted from the Cold War Radio Museum – coldwarradiomuseum.com – website. Cold War Lessons for Voice of America in China Cold War Radio Museum During the Cold War, it would…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has been warning about similar potential problems of foreign influence in other Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) services under the lax and dysfunctional management by the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBC, Germany’s Deutsche Welle (DW) and Russia’s RT all had Facebook LIVE transmissions of the dramatic testimony Thursday from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by the Supreme Court nominee Brett…
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