U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Commentary “A dispute over why Voice of America abruptly shut down an interview with a vocal critic of Beijing is raising questions about whether Chinese leadership influenced the U.S. broadcaster,” CNBC reporter Evelyn Cheng wrote in an online…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a speech delivered at a largely Chinese American event in Flushing, New York organized by Beijing Spring to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) Executive…
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BBG Watch Commentary Unlike BBC, Al Jazeera, RT, DW and almost all other major international and U.S. news media outlets, U.S. tax-funded ($221 million in FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) did not have a live feed on its Facebook…
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OPINION Time to Revisit Status of VOA, Other Government Media, in Washington Press Galleries By Dan Robinson For decades, the Voice of America has enjoyed the use of physical working space in the press galleries in the U.S….
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BBG Watch Commentary Russia’s RT posted the full text of fired FBI Director James Comey’s prepared remarks the day before his testimony on Capitol Hill about his conversations with President Donald Trump. BBC also had a report on Comey’s prepared…
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BBG Watch Commentary Former Voice of America (VOA) director Robert R. Reilly had his letter to the editor published in the Wall Street Journal, in which he defends five VOA Mandarin Service journalists under fire from current VOA director Amanda…
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BBG Watch Commentary As reported by the Voice of America (VOA), “Sunday marks 28 years since Chinese tanks rolled into crowds of demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, opening fire and killing hundreds of pro-democracy activists. Some estimates put the total number…
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BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), managed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal agency, has allowed thousands of anti-gay comments to be posted on VOA websites and VOA social media pages, some of them…
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BBG Watch Commentary If the Trump White House nominates someone to head the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the individual, if confirmed by the U.S. Senate, will inherit a highly dysfunctional federal agency which allows hate speech comments on the…
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BBG Watch Media Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, commented on the latest scandal at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) where a decision by Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett and other senior…
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BBG Watch Commentary Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski who died last week at age 89 showed keen interest in U.S. broadcasting to the Soviet block during the Cold War and was a strong supporter of Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Liberty…
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BBG Watch History Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981, died on May 26, 2017 at age 89. One of the major American planners of the Cold War victory over the Soviet Union, Zbigniew…
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BBG Watch Commentary One of the major American planners of the Cold War victory over the Soviet Union, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was only given a brief, five paragraph AP report on the Voice of America (VOA) English-language website after the news…
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BBG Watch Media Sasha Gong, Voice of America’s Mandarin Service Chief who has been suspended by VOA director Amanda Bennett, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “How China Managed to Muffle the Voice of America.” The full…
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BBG Watch Commentary Wei Jingsheng, an internationally known leader in the 1978 Chinese Democracy Wall Movement, former political prisoner in China for 18 years and winner of the 1994 Olof Palme Prize and the 1996 Sakharov Prize has called for…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBG, IBB, and VOA senior bureaucracy protects itself by eliminating “administrative vacancies” while proposing to cut real programs and programming jobs in FY2018 budget request. From Broadcasting Board of Governors | FY 2018 Congressional Budget Justification: “IBB…
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