U.S. and International Media
OPINION Issues in the News: Royce Report on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads U.S. International Media: Information War Lost by USAGM By The Federalist “…Oversight is not a game. It is a core constitutional function,…
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BBG Watch Commentary In an interview with John Loeffler for his “Steel on Steel” radio program on January 20, 2018, Iran expert, journalist and writer Kenneth R. Timmerman said that many Iranian protesters call the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America…
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BBG Watch Commentary Ben Rhodes, former Assistant to President President Obama and his Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting, was again in the news lately. As reported by The Hill and other media, he “faced backlash from…
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BBG Watch Commentary Practically defunct (Hillary Clinton’s words), U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) failed to report on its main VOA News English-language website whether a senior White House staffer Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for…
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BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) newsroom is now slightly faster, if not vastly better, in posting breaking news stories, but in overall leadership and management performance its parent federal agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), is…
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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 Commentary In a move that it likely to seriously damage the reputation of new Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett, her deputy Sandy Sugawara, and the credibility of Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) new CEO John Lansing,…
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BBG Watch Commentary Why has U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America’s VOA News voanews.com English language website ignored as a news story for many days the explosive controversy over President Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes admitting in a New…
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BBG Watch Commentary Everybody who checks and compares international news online knows by now that U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America does not quickly update its English news website, particularly on weekends when government workers staffing the VOA newsroom are not…
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BBG Watch Commentary Someone worked at the White House this Saturday, November 7, but not at the U.S. taxpayer-funded media organizations serving foreign audiences: Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). At least there was…
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BBG Watch Commentary All views expressed are those of the author. One Year Later — Dysfunction, News Failures, Self-Promotion and Pandering at the Voice of America PART I: Looking Back: Lack of Accountability, Continuing Maximum Hubris, and Facing Realities By…
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BBG Watch Commentary A new commentary from our regular contributor The Federalist deals with the Voice of America (VOA), a U.S. taxpayer-funded international media outlet within the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency overseen by presidentially-appointed and Senate-confirmed…
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BBG Watch Commentary The name — SPUTNIK — for a news agency and international radio may sound silly in English, outdated — as a relic of the 1950s — and made even more funny by association with Putin (Putnik), but…
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BBG Watch Commentary The Kremlin’s external media outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) once again beat U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) in the amount of coverage devoted to a U.S.-related news story. RT not only posted online in English more…
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BBG Watch Commentary NBC News and Fox News provided remarkably different perspectives of the American Yazidi community views on what the Obama administration is doing or not doing to help the Yazidis and other ethnic and religious groups under attack…
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BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open board meeting on August 13 in Washington, DC, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Rick Stengel said that Russia has outstanding messaging capabilities on…
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