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Multiple Voice of America Reporters Have Posted Anti-Trump Content On Social Media, Daily Caller Reports
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary “Multiple Voice of America (VOA) reporters have repeatedly posted anti-Trump comments on their professional Twitter accounts, despite a social media policy requiring employee impartiality on social media platforms,” The Daily Caller reporter Shelby Talcott wrote…
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HISTORY Voice of America? – Why The Question Mark from Congress in 1948?
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary In 1948, Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate charged that Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts contained “baloney,” “lies,” “insults,” “drivel,” “nonsense and falsehoods,” “trash,” amounting to “useless expenditures” and “a downright tragedy.” They were…
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Secret Facebook Pages and Twitter Blockers at USAGM Part II
BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary Secret Facebook Pages and Twitter Blockers at USAGM By BBG – USAGM Watch Contributor Senior VOA Reporter Was Forced to Reverse Twitter Block of Watchdog Site; Agency Operated or Sanctioned Secret…
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VOA Editor Also Mocked Senator Ted Cruz
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary His selection as the Press Freedom Editor was praised and announced to the staff on April 1, 2019 by the Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett, but, according to reports in The Dailly Caller,…
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Winds of Freedom
BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Opinion Award-winning reporter and columnist Steve Browne who saw first-hand the beginnings of the progress toward democracy, liberty and tolerance in East-Central Europe only to be followed by a partial reversal of some of…
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Voice Of America Says Editor Deleted Anti-Trump Facebook Posts, But Unclear If He Was Punished, Daily Caller Reports
BBG – USAGM Commentary The Daily Caller writer Shelby Talcott has an update in a new article on partisan Facebook post by the Voice of America’s Press Freedom Editor who was highly regarded and appointed to his position by VOA…
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VOA’s David Jones: ‘we stand by our coverage and do not plan to comment any further’
BBG – USAGM Commentary In an article for The National Interest website, reporter Shelby Talcott, who recently broke the story on partisan bias and violations of social media policy by some of the U.S. government-employee-editors of taxpayer-funded Voice of America…
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Secret Facebook Pages and Twitter Blockers at USAGM – Part I
BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary Secret Facebook Pages and Twitter Blockers at USAGM By BBG – USAGM Watch Contributor Senior VOA Reporter Was Forced to Reverse Twitter Block of Watchdog Site; Agency Operated or Sanctioned Secret Facebook…
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VOICE OF AMERICA – EAGLE ON THE MOON – 1969
BBG – USAGM Watch History This Cold War Radio Museum post includes a full transcript and an MP3 audio file of the 1969 Voice of America Apollo 11 radio documentary “Eagle on the Moon” broadcast produced after the mission. The…
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VOA 1969 Radio Documentary ‘Eagle on the Moon – the Flight of Apollo 11’
BBG – USAGM Watch History You can listen to the entire Voice of America “Eagle on the Moon – the Flight of Apollo 11” 1969 documentary radio broadcast in a 2019 Cold War Radio Museum video which combines the original…
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Eagle on the Moon – The Flight of Apollo 11 – 1969 Voice of America Radio Broadcast
Cold War Radio Museum’s 2019 rendition with NASA photographs of the Voice of America (VOA) 1969 special radio broadcast “Eagle on the Moon – The Flight of Apollo 11.” Written and produced in 1969 by VOA’s Michael A….
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VOA Director Praised Editor Later Named in a Partisan Bias Controversy
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary According to an article by The Daily Caller reporter Shelby Talcott, Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett and her boss, U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO, John Lansing, both of them appointed during…
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Voice Of America Ignored Multiple Warnings On Anti-Trump Facebook Posts By Its Editor
BBG – USAGM Commentary Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett and her boss, U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO John Lansing were warned about these violations many months ago and did nothing. Voice Of America Ignored Multiple Warnings…
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MEDIA Voice Of America Editor Likely Has A Facebook Page Littered With Anti-Trump Posts
BBG – USAGM Media Commentary An article in The Daily Caller from reporter Shelby Talcott reveals that a Voice of America (VOA) senior-level editor whose promotion was reportedly announced to staff earlier this year in a highly congratulatory e-mail…
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RFE/RL to get new president Jamie Fly with approval from Mike Pompeo EXCLUSIVE
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary BBG – USAGM has confirmed that Jamie Fly, a senior fellow and director of the Future of Geopolitics and Asia programs at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), will be the next…
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