U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Commentary Dr. Majid Mohammadi, author of more than three dozen books on Iran, joins a growing number of award-wining journalists and scholars who find it impossible to work for the current senior management of Radio Free Europe /…
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BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett has two scheduled public appearances in Washington, DC this week. They should be interesting in light of her recent statements and what the organization she leads has done for the…
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OPINION GUEST ANALYSIS Radio Farda: isn’t it time for a house cleaning? By Majid Mohammadi President Trump has chosen a new foreign and security policy team, Bolton and Pompeo, who have a passion to put more pressure on Islamic…
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OPINION BBG Watch Guest Commentary History’s Mysteries: Those Who Listen in the Dark (解密时刻：偷听“敌台” 美国之音 英文字幕版) 32,323 views as of April 19, 2018 魏京生：“那个时候开始，悄悄地在家里头，收音机打开慢慢找找找，找着了。”Starting at that time, at home in secret, I would turn on the radio and slowly turn…
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BBG Watch Commentary Young journalists, most of them women, from countries without free media are criticizing senior management of U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and its managing U.S. federal agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),…
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BBG Watch History Commentary This Cold War History Museum presentation shows how officials in charge of the Voice of America (VOA) in the early 1950s responded to former employees, members of Congress, and other outside critics who quite justifiably accused…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary On April 19, 2017, reportedly on orders of the senior management of U.S. taxpayer-funded, U.S. government-run Voice of America (VOA) led by VOA Director Amanda Bennett and her deputy Sandy Sugawara, VOA Mandarin Service journalists were…
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BBG Watch Commentary In mid-April 1943, the Voice of America (VOA), which was then known as the Overseas Branch of the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI), started to spread Soviet propaganda lies about the Katyn Forest massacre of thousands…
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BBG Watch Commentary Remarks to the Chinese American staff made this week by Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett, who — according to numerous reports — had ordered the shortening of the April 19, 2017 VOA interview with Chinese…
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BBG Watch Commentary The independent and nonpartisan NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) has a press release on the need for a congressional investigation of Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Voice of America (VOA) upper management…
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OPINION BBG Comedy Club Part One US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist In case you haven’t realized it by now, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is a comedy resource….
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BBG Watch Commentary The independent, non-partisan NGO, Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) has reacted to the news that the person appointed by Voice of America’s (VOA) senior management as VOA China Branch Chief does not speak nor read Mandarin….
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BBG Watch Commentary An erotica Twitter feed linked to a Voice of America (VOA) broadcaster had VOA director and her deputy as followers. According to a VOA spokesperson, they deny ever seeing any offensive tweets from this account which has…
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OPINION The BBG Troll Farm US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist We have a Part Two to the commentary “The BBG Comedy Club” but it will have to wait for the…
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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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