U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Commentary In a letter to the Editor of The Los Angeles Times, CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) John F. Lansing, who was appointed to his position in 2015 during the Obama administration, has blasted…
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BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett has made various charges against VOA Mandarin Service Chief Dr. Sasha Gong who was first suspended with pay and has now been fired by VOA’s parent agency, the United States…
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BBG Watch Commentary This one-sided political and partisan propaganda video was produced with Russian subtitles for “Current Time” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and Voice of America (VOA) Russian TV and online platform paid for by U.S….
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BBG Watch Media Commentary A new report by Susan Crabtree in The Washington Free Beacon provides additional details on the investigation by the House Foreign Affairs Committee which uncovered new spate of management failures at the United States Agency for…
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BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and his committee staff found that insufficient management and devolved operating structures for digital advertising at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and…
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BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and his committee staff found that insufficient management and devolved operating structures for digital advertising at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and…
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BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and his committee staff found that insufficient management and devolved operating structures for digital advertising at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and…
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BBG Watch Commentary U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO John Lansing, who had been appointed in 2015 during the Obama administration, had ignored early warnings of taxpayer-funded USAGM media entities such as the Voice of America (VOA) targeting Americans in…
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BBG Watch Commentary U.S. government-run and U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has ignored the Claas Relotius journalistic scandal. Since Der Spiegel reporter Claas Relotius who was fired by the German news magazine for “grand scale” lies has published multiple…
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BBG Watch Commentary In posts on Twitter and in a telephone interview in which he answered questions from BBG Watch, Chinese whistleblower Guo Wengui has accused U.S. government-run and taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) of implying in a headline on…
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BBG Watch Commentary Recent media reports about Russian propaganda efforts to target African Americans expose a practice of Russian and previously Soviet governments that has been continuing in the United States for decades. Secret Russian interference with U.S. politics, both…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary A group of conservative senators has blocked a bill which would allow holdover bureacrats form the Obama administration to entrench themselves in the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which was previously called the Broadcasting Board…
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Reposted Commentary Cold War Radio Museum The Year 1968 in the History of Samizdat The recent death of Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva brings into focus not only her contributions to improving the lives of millions of people…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary According to a report of the Working Group on Chinese Influence Activities in the United States prepared by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Center on US-China Relations at Asia Society in New York,…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary While noting some of the management scandals at the Voice of America (VOA) and its parent federal agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), under the current leadership of VOA Director Amanda Bennett and USAGM…
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BBG Watch Guest Commentary On the day when the world commemorates 70 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, waste bins outside the only Laogai Museum in the world in Washington DC were filled with valuable…
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