U.S. and International Media
USAGM Watch Commentary On January 31, 2019, the lead paragraph in a news report issued to the whole world by the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) shouted: “A suspected hate-fueled assault on Jussie Smollett, a black, gay and Jewish…
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USAGM Watch Commentary On a Twitter account showing news from the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), a federal government employee who is a veteran Central English Newsroom VOA reporter posted a “@VOA” tweet which said in part in reference…
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BBG Watch Commentary 美国之音给您拜年啦！美国之音台长贝内特、中文部主任托瑞埃罗和其他语言组的同仁祝您🐷年身体健康、合家欢乐、万事如意！！！ pic.twitter.com/0aJwkGAgWx — 美国之音中文网 (@VOAChinese) February 3, 2019 VOA Director Amanda Bennett’s Chinese New Year Greeting Backfires By Anonymous VOA China Branch Reporter Note: VOA journalist who wrote this commentary wants to remain anonymous…
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BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded (Annual budget: $234.7 million; Employees: 1,078) Voice of America (VOA), managed by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), violated its VOA Charter, which is U.S. law, and its own Journalistic Code when it posted…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a new video from U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which is managed by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an Iranian journalist for RFE/RL’s Radio Farda declared with strong conviction that in Iran…
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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 Question Did the Voice of America (VOA) under the directorship of Pulitzer-winning journalist Amanda Bennett, an Obama administration holdover appointee, comply with the VOA Charter and VOA Journalistic Code in how VOA News first reported on BuzzFeed…
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BBG Watch Media As reported by Susan Crabtree in the Washington Free Beacon, “President Trump has re-nominated documentary filmmaker Michael Pack to lead the nation’s taxpayer-funded global broadcasting operation, which was created to counter propaganda from repressive regimes but critics…
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Comedy We have put this one under our new BBG – USAGM Watch Comedy category. We were quite intrigued what Twitter users abroad might think about a tweet by Voice of America (VOA) senior correspondent and VOA White House Bureau…
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OPINION By Ted Lipien Cold War – Clip: I’ve Been Ratting On You | Amazon Studios I was checking on the Voice of America (VOA) U.S. tax-funded English news website to see whether it had anything on Cold War (Polish:…
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BBG Watch Commentary Iranians are enraged by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Radio Farda, as well as in other instances by the Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service, for repeating the Iran regime’s propaganda without any added value of context…
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OPINION U-SAG-M — Federal Bureaucracy’s Fantasyland Information War Lost: Diversionary Tactics By The Federalist In recent weeks there have been several news accounts in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post and elsewhere…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a letter to the Editor of The Los Angeles Times, CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) John F. Lansing, who was appointed to his position in 2015 during the Obama administration, has blasted…
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BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett has made various charges against VOA Mandarin Service Chief Dr. Sasha Gong who was first suspended with pay and has now been fired by VOA’s parent agency, the United States…
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BBG Watch Commentary This one-sided political and partisan propaganda video was produced with Russian subtitles for “Current Time” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and Voice of America (VOA) Russian TV and online platform paid for by U.S….
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BBG Watch Media Commentary A new report by Susan Crabtree in The Washington Free Beacon provides additional details on the investigation by the House Foreign Affairs Committee which uncovered new spate of management failures at the United States Agency for…
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