U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch | PETITION In a JOINT APPEAL TO CONGRESS, dated June 24, 2017, Chinese democracy seekers, press freedom advocates and scholars are asking for blocking proposed cuts to Radio Free Asia (RFA) Mandarin Service in the Broadcasting Board…
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OPINION More of the Big Lie and Other Items of Note US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist The Trump administration’s FY2018 budget proposal is before Congress for legislative debate and the appropriation and…
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BBG Watch Mark Gjonaj, a New York State Assembly member and Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) advisor has written a letter to Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Kenneth Weinstein opposing proposed cuts in Voice of America…
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BBG Watch Media Former director of Radio Liberty during the fall of communism in the Soviet block and former presidentially-appointed member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), S. Enders Wimbush, has published highly critical comments about Radio Farda, the…
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BBG Watch Commentary A few days before the death of American university student Otto Warmbier who had lapsed into a coma in a North Korean prison, U.S. taxpayer-funded ($220 million FY 2017) Voice of America issued a news report touting…
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BBG Watch Media As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, “Congress is preparing to ask the State Department inspector general to conduct an investigation into the Voice of America and whether it was pressured by China to halt a live…
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BBG Watch Commentary In its superficial and substandard coverage of President Trump’s major foreign policy speech on Cuba, which he delivered in Miami Friday, U.S. taxpayer-funded ($221 million FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) Spanish Service failed to carry the…
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BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE Commentary The Spanish Service of scandal-ridden, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) failed to broadcast live on its Facebook page or its news website President Trump’s speech today in Miami, FL on new U.S. policy toward communist…
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BBG Watch Commentary Two of “VOA Mandarin Five” journalists suspended with pay by Voice of America director Amanda Bennett showed great courage, dignity and strength in describing their ordeal over the shortened Guo Wengui interview controversy to members of the…
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BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service journalist, senior editor Huchen Zhang, spoke today at the open board meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). He is one of the “VOA Mandarin Five” journalists placed on administrative…
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BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service chief, Dr. Sasha Gong, spoke today at the open board meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). She is one of the “VOA Mandarin Five” journalists placed on administrative leave…
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OPINION Can Things Get Any Worse? US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist When it comes to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and the Voice of America (VOA) the answer is: yes, they can….
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BBG Watch The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) announced that Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez, a refugee from Castro’s Cuba who had a successful career as U.S. diplomat and was the State Department’s Coordinator for the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications,…
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BBG WATCH COMMENTARY In a rare comment from America’s top diplomat about increasing programming and management controversies at the Voice of America (VOA), Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in response to a question from Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) at…
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BBG Watch Commentary Radio Farda, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) “Persian-language service too often parrots state media and doesn’t give Israel a fair shake,” Sohrab Ahmari, Wall Street Journal‘s editorial writer based in London wrote in an op-ed….
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BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Four Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service journalists have expressed concerns that their personal security has been jeopardized as a result of what they allege is a botched-up and retaliatory investigation launched against them by VOA’s…
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