U.S. and International Media
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Haroon Ullah, former top official in the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), reported to the Federal Corrective Institution at Cumberland, Maryland to begin serving 90 day sentence for theft of government funds. An…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded and U.S. government-managed Voice of America (VOA) English-language news website (VOANews.com) has failed to report on the recent settlement in which CNN agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of money to Nick…
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BBG – USAGM – Watch Commentary In January 2018 former U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO and Director John Lansing (he is now running NPR) and his then top USAGM aide, former Chief Strategy Officer Haroon…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary On December 13, 2019, Mahtab Farid, an Iranian-born American journalist, well respected in Washington, DC, where she works as a journalist, posted her highly critical comments on Facebook about the Voice of America (VOA) Persian…
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OPINION The Great Numbers Game at U.S. Agency for Global Media By The Federalist The U.S. Agency for Global Media or USAGM equates with: The U.S. Agency for Gross Mismanagement Or as we like to derisively refer to…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Current Voice of America (VOA) journalists are making comments suggesting that staff morale at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) is sinking to new record low levels after the recent sentencing by the federal…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Haroon Ullah, a former federal government official and counter-terrorism expert who worked with secretaries of State and the U.S. military, was sentenced Friday to 3 months in prison for theft of government funds. Ullah had…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Lawyers for a former top strategic advisor at the federal agency overseeing U.S. foreign-directed media and broadcasting, are asking a federal judge to allow him to serve a 60 day sentence, to which he has…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary Lax supervision by former government executive John F. Lansing, who now runs NPR, allowed his former top aide Dr. Haroon Ullah at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which was formerly known as the Broadcasting…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary FOR BACKGROUND SEE: NBC’s Andy Lack visited Ukraine as US official in charge of Voice of America — Firewall Breached Part I Voice of America Ukraine Expert Called Joe Biden…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary FOR BACKGROUND SEE: NBC’s Andy Lack visited Ukraine as US official in charge of Voice of America — Firewall Breached Part I Voice of America Ukraine Expert Called Joe Biden A ‘Good…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary NBC’s Andy Lack visited Ukraine as US official in charge of Voice of America — Firewall Breached Part I Andy Lack, the chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, where contested accusation of…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Experts critical of Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyib Erdoğan have raised alarm that a few days ago a German journalist was attacking “activist” journalists, accusing them of spreading online fake news in a…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary A report posted online by the Voice of America (VOA) implied that President Donald Trump may have not known that VOA still exists when he mentioned the tax-funded ($250 million FY19), U.S. government-managed media outlet…
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EXCLUSIVE BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary News BBG – USAGM Watch was able to confirm that Jeff Shell, former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) chairman, has resigned his position on the Board of Governors of the U.S. Agency for Global…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Media Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, argues in her most recent article in the Daily Signal that Michael Pack’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearing advances the prospect of reforming U.S….
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