U.S. and International Media
OPINION VOA Should Quote Experts, Not Mix News With Commentary By Ted Lipien Voice of America headline, “Turkey Airport Attack Points to Spreading Regional War“ and some — not all — of what passes for a VOA “news”…
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Opinion Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost The Never-Ending Downward Spiral Part Two By The Federalist There used to be a time when there was a saying around the Voice of America (VOA): “You don’t come to…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a report on the New York LGBT Pride March on Sunday, June 26, the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), charged with media outreach abroad for the United States, failed to call the Orlando shooting an…
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BBG Watch Commentary Yet another media article on how the U.S. is trying to defeat ISIS online was published by The Hill, a top U.S. political website and newspaper, read by the White House and lawmakers. The Broadcasting Board of…
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BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has posted on its official website and uploaded to the BBG YouTube page a badly produced and poorly curated video of the BBG open board meeting held in Washington, D.C. on…
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BBG Watch The Voice of America’s (VOA) Bosnian Service has been one of the most successful VOA services in the federal agency — the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). The agency itself regularly scores at the bottom of the heap…
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BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE VOA Director Orders Bias Training In Wake of Criticisms By BBG Watch Reporters In a memo to staff, VOA Director Amanda Bennett says she has ordered a series of bias training sessions in the wake…
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OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost – The Never-Ending Downward Spiral Voice of America Downplaying Terrorist Threat From ISIS By The Federalist Periodically, a question comes up regarding the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and the…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch is posting this commentary as an introduction to an op-ed by former presidentially-appointed Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member, American broadcaster and journalist Blanquita Cullum, who called a recent Voice of America video on Islamist…
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OPINION Robert E. Sherwood on avoiding election coverage bias at Voice of America By Ted Lipien I disagree profoundly with some of Donald Trump’s views, including his comments about Vladimir Putin, but I am appalled by what has become a…
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BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has posted two out of three promised special reports on “Islamist Extremism in America.” These VOA reports are politically correct to a fault but have generated almost no audience engagement….
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BBG Watch Commentary Today, the Voice of America’s parent agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) announced the appointment of Thomas Kent, a long time Associated Press journalist, as the new President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). In 2015,…
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BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which together with the Voice of America (VOA) and other U.S. taxpayer-funded international broadcasters is overseen by the federal Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), has joined VOA in posting online…
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BBG Watch Media A journalist working as a U.S. government employee for the taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has been posting anti-Donald Trump memes on her personal but publicly accessible Facebook page. One was a GIF with a Nazi swastika…
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BBG Watch Commentary We received these observations and screenshots (posted below) from a former senior Voice of America (VOA) journalist and former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employee. Both VOA and BBG are funded by U.S. taxpayers ($777 million in…
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BBG Watch Media Writing in the USC Center on Public Diplomacy CPD Blog, former Voice of America (VOA) senior correspondent Dan Robinson says there is a risk that some of the recent moves by Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) new…
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