U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Commentary Instead of anticipating President Obama’s eventual call for racial solidarity in the wake of the Dallas shootings of police officers, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) continued to post inaccurate information that the policeman in the Minnesota…
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OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost Shut ‘Em Down By The Federalist So much is very wrong with the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) entities, especially the Voice of America (VOA), but ultimately it is the…
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BBG Watch U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), part of the $777 million Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal agency, was the only one among major international broadcasters and probably the only one among major news media outlets anywhere in…
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BBG Watch BBG Watch has learned Thursday evening from Voice of America (VOA) journalists that director Amanda Bennett may have intervened to get the VOA Central English Newsroom to advance the U.S. police shootings story and to focus on it…
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BBG Watch According to the time stamp on the Voice of America (VOA News) English report posted online at 7:55 PM ET, Wednesday, July 6, 2016, it took VOA Central Newsroom nearly four hours to report online on U.S. President…
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BBG Watch Commentary News reports, commentaries and press releases put out by U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) and its parent federal agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG – $777 million FY 2017 Budget Request) are often lacking objectivity…
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BBG Watch Commentary While some recent U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) news reports endangered Americans and non-Americans, Muslims and non-Muslims with their unbalanced, sanitized accounting of the killing of 20, mostly foreign non-Muslim civilians, taken hostage by Islamist terrorists…
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BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), a federal government entity of the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), has hosted a Panel on Young Muslims in America and issued a press release that included a number…
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BBG Watch Commentary A press release from the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) about the VOA-hosted panel on young American Muslims did not have a single reference to any direct condemnation of terrorism or religious fanaticism. Instead, the VOA…
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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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