U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Commentary BBG, IBB, and VOA senior bureaucracy protects itself by eliminating “administrative vacancies” while proposing to cut real programs and programming jobs in FY2018 budget request. From Broadcasting Board of Governors | FY 2018 Congressional Budget Justification: “IBB…
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BBG Watch Broadcasting Board of Governors BBG FY 2018 Budget Request Summary of Appropriations
BBG Watch Broadcasting Board of Governors BBG FY 2018 Budget Request – Executive Summary Chart
BBG Watch Media Commentary Veteran Washington journalist and political author Bill Gertz reports in the Washington Free Beacon that an exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with former close ties to the Chinese communist government has begun revealing secrets about Beijing’s…
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OPINION A Good Swift Kick US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist Professor Martha Bayles is an erudite chronicler of US Government international broadcasting. Much of the time, we find her observations to be exceptionally…
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BBG Watch Commentary, Former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director Ted Lipien has posted a comment in response to Ms. Martha Bayles’ article, “Don’t Kick VOA When It’s Down” published on the website of the Public Diplomacy Council. Lipien,…
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BBG Watch Commentary On one of the most crucial news days so far of Donald Trump’s presidency, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA – $224M FY 2017), belonging to the dysfunctional Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG – $777M) agency, did…
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BBG Watch Commentary Tax-funded Voice of America (VOA), which costs U.S. taxpayers quarter of a billion dollars a year ($224 million in FY 2017), finds it difficult to attract sizable audiences to its serious news content on social media platforms…
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BBG Watch Commentary A Voice of America (VOA) reporter says: “It is so quiet at times in the [Voice of America] newsroom you would think we were closed.” “Stories are not updated for hours, and even then…
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BBG Watch Commentary We offer the two official Voice of America (VOA) and Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) announcement from senior executives, which are reposted below, as well as the BBG Management Accountability Charter, in addition to the featured image…
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BBG Watch Commentary The senior mangement of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has at least two faces. It has, of course, its CEO and Director, John F. Lansing, and Voice of America (VOA) director, Amanda Bennett. There are also…
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BBG Watch Commentary As federal employees of the ailing Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), known throughout the U.S. government for its low employee morale, began to fill out yet another Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS…
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BBG Watch Commentary An amateur video of the anti-censorship protest on May 8, 2017 in front of the Voice of America (VOA) headquarters building in Washington, DC was uploaded to YouTube. A group of Chinese Americans staged a…
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BBG Watch Commentary @zhaoyan818 棺材上还有来自低于光之兄弟群体的星光层的存有：棺才上那个弧形的光源 pic.twitter.com/nO766Sp8AV — Vivian (@wy513888) May 8, 2017 A group of Chinese Americans staged a mock funeral today, May 8, 2017, at the Voice of America (VOA) headquarters building in Washington, DC in protest against what…
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OPINION Telling It Like It Is US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist It’s that time of year when the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) conducts its annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS)….
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BBG Watch Commentary Chinese bookseller, free speech advocate and former political prisoner in China Lam Wing-Kee 林榮基 has criticized the embattled U.S. taxpayer-funded and government-run international broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) for selective coverage of topics which the government in…
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