U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Media Commentary As reported by Miami Herald, acting director of Radio and TV Martí André Mendes who has resigned to take a new job at the Department of Commerce told his Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) staff “don’t…
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OPINION Just The Facts?!? US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) got a lot of press on what amounts to fake news: an alleged two-person “coup” attempt…
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OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown 5.0 Part Two US Government International Media Know Your Audience? By The Federalist If there is one thing the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has in abundance it is:…
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OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn SOLZHENITSYN Target of KGB Propaganda and Censorship by Voice of America By Ted Lipien This research article written for Cold War Radio Museum…
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Commentary By Ted Lipien “With genuine horror we listened to what the Polish language programs of the Voice of America (or whatever name they had then), in which in line with what [the Soviet news agency] TASS was communicating, the…
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OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost – When Dead and Broken is All That’s Left By The Federalist The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is on a campaign to oppose necessary reform of US Government…
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BBG Watch Commentary “‘It’s a whirlwind of positive change.’ Summing up the recent (February 26 [2016]) bimonthly public meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (the BBG), the acting chairman of the Board for that session, Michael Kempner, reflected on…
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BBG Watch Commentary It is not clear whether the Public Diplomacy Council’s (PDC) headline, “BBG CEO opposes plan to restructure US international broadcasting,” is entirely accurate. According to PDC’s blog post by Adam Powell, “John Lansing, the new CEO and…
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BBG Watch Exclusive Commentary According to several Voice of America (VOA) journalists who attended a meeting last week with VOA director David Ensor shortly before he left office, Mr. Ensor issued a blunt warning to Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG)…
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BBG Watch Media Former Voice of America (VOA) director David S. Jackson has published an opinion article on the Public Diplomacy Council (PDC) website in which he argues for combining journalistic objectivity and independence with greater attention being paid by…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch is reposting reminders about Wednesday’s events in Washington, DC focused on U.S. international broadcasting and other media outreach abroad. Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House…
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BBG Watch At today’s Town Hall meeting at the Voice of America (VOA) in Washington, DC, Director David Ensor announced that he has submitted his resignation to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) yesterday and wants to leave by end…
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BBG Watch Commentary Former Voice of America (VOA) deputy director Alan Heil, who is listed as a member of the Public Diplomacy Council, “a nonprofit organization committed to the academic study, professional practice, and responsible advocacy of public diplomacy,” published…
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BBG Watch Commentary This is the last column for 2014 from The Federalist, BBG Watch’s most read commentator. We apologize for not posting it earlier due to technical problems at our web hosting company during the holidays. Voice of America…
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BBG Watch Commentary Link to Video At the open board meeting in Washington Thursday, Broadcasting Board of Governors Chairman Jeff Shell welcomed to the board three new members: Ambassador Karen Kornbluh and Michael Kempner, who were in attendance, and Dr….
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BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America Information War Lost: Storytelling By The Federalist The most recent meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) was held on October 30, 2014. Observations and Comments On its face, the opening meetings of…
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