U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch In Their Own Words Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett has remarked on the catastrophic failure of her U.S. taxpayer-funded media outlet’s digital processing and storage system. She shares the responsibility for keeping the U.S. government media…
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BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE from Voice of America Reporters The Dalet system used by Voice of America (VOA) reporters to receive, process, store and transmit digital data for VOA video, TV, radio and online content is once again experiencing one…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a highly critical op-ed published in the English language Pakistani newspaper Daily Times, Peshawar based independent journalist Abdur Rauf Yousafzai decries what he and others in Pakistan see as dishonorable behavior of “Prague based policy makers”…
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BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA), the official U.S. taxpayer-funded media outlet targeting overseas audiences but also seen on the web in the United States, is asking in a news report whether President Trump thinks immigrants are animals….
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BBG Watch Commentary A former RFE/RL editor says that the U.S.-funded and U.S. government-run news site promotes Hitler sympathizers in Kazakhstan. (Photo: Assem Tokayeva, third from the left, standing next to Alexander Kulitz, second from the left, a member of…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, has a new op-ed in The Daily Signal with a strong defense of Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service journalists facing a hostile senior management…
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BBG Watch Commentary 149 – this is no typo. The number of Live Voice of America (VOA) Facebook views for Greta Van Susteren interview with U.S. National Security Advisor Ambassador John Bolton was at one time only one hundred and…
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OPINION North Korea Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost By The Federalist On May 12, 2018 an op-ed piece appeared in The Washington Post co-authored by Amanda Bennett (Voice of America [VOA] director) and…
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Guest Commentary By Ted Lipien I noticed through an online search of their news websites that neither the Voice of America’s (VOA) Russian and English services, nor the Russian Service of Radio Liberty (RL) — VOA’s Golos Ameriki, Radio Free…
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OPINION By Ted Lipien Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett left out some critical information when she wrote in a co-authored Washington Post op-ed posted online May 12, 2018: BENNETT & LEE: “It was only after World War II…
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Mr. Qiao Mu, a dissident Chinese academic, previously a professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University and a contract employee at VOA Mandarin Service from November 2017 to January 2018, challenged Voice of America Director Amanda Bennet and Broadcasting Board…
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BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded, U.S. government-run Voice of America (VOA), poorly-managed by holdover officials, was soundly beaten this morning by other international broadcasters — Russia’s RT, BBC, Germany’s Deutsche Welle (DW) and Radio France International (RFI) — and…
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OPINION Employee Survey Time 2018 US International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist It’s time for the annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS), the 2018 edition. We’ve seen a copy of the memo issued by John Lansing,…
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BBG Watch Commentary Three Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service journalists are still on forced paid leave imposed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and VOA senior management after the Guo Wengui live whistleblower interview which was shortened on…
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BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) journalists who have learned about the history of their organization from such popular books as Alan L. Heil, Jr.’s Voice of America: A History (Columbia University Press, 2003) may be shocked to learn…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary Voice of America (VOA) journalist Dr. Sasha Gong, one of the three journalists who have been on administration leave for over a year and who are facing a threat of termination by VOA regarding the senior…
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