U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Commentary Lyudmila Alekseyeva (alternative spelling Alexeeva), a veteran defender of human rights and a prominent Russian opposition figure, has died in Moscow at the age of 91. An obituary posted in English on the Radio Free Europe /…
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BBG Watch Commentary Cold War Radio Museum Voice of America Then and Now Historically, partisanship at the Voice of America has been most often associated with Left-wing bias of some of its officials and central English newsroom reporters. By…
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Sen. Warner to Propose National Cybersecurity Doctrine| Mutlichannel NEWS “Expand American influence abroad to extend the key tenets of an open, interoperable, reliable, and secure Internet.” BBG Watch Comment: In the past, the Voice of America (VOA) website was…
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Voice Of America Vows Independence, As Trump Calls For ‘Worldwide Network’ Dan Robinson comments on NPR report about VOA NPR conveniently makes it quite difficult to post comments on its audio pieces. In fact, you can’t — you…
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BBG Watch Commentary A Failure of Leadership No matter how one reads the Washington Post’s blog opinion article by Erik Wemple about the current state of the taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), it shows, perhaps inadvertently and perhaps contrary to…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary Washington Free Beacon senior writer Susan Crabtree who has been reporting on U.S government media outreach conducted at taxpayers’ expense through the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), previously known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
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BBG Watch Commentary In secret messages to BBG Watch, some of the remaining anti-communist journalists at U.S. tax-funded, U.S. government-managed Voice of America (VOA) express their fear and horror at the way the “VOA Mandarin Five” broadcasters have been treated…
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OPINION U-SAG-M Fantasyland Special 2018 Holiday Edition US Government International Media? By The Federalist The U-SAG-M fantasyland is in full swing during the 2018 holiday season. As we’ve said many times before, you can’t make…
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BBG Watch Commentary Senior management of the Voice of America (VOA) and its parent agency, the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) still run by Obama Administration holdover appointees, VOA Director Amanda Bennett and USAGM CEO John F. Lansing,…
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BBG Watch Commentary Journalists formerly linked with the Voice of America (VOA) have criticized a Washington Post op-ed by VOA director Amanda Bennett, ”Trump’s ‘worldwide network’ is a great idea. But it already exists.,” for “glaring inaccuracies,” “misleading claims” and…
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BBG Watch Commentary Internal memos from the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) show that one of its tax-funded media entities, the Voice of America (VOA), is trying to arrange for VOA’s pro bono contributor media personality Greta Van…
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BBG Watch Commentary, As reported by U.S. and world media, President Trump raised in a tweet the possibility of starting “our own Worldwide Network” to counter news spread internationally by CNN. ….and false way. Something has to be done, including…
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BBG Watch Commentary U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA) under holdover Obama administration director Amanda Bennett appears to continue its selective censorship of Chinese billionaire businessman Guo Wengui and threatens with firing VOA Mandarin Service journalists who had resisted her…
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BBG Watch Guest Commentary As Americans observed Thanksgiving, employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) no doubt celebrated the fact that they still have jobs in what remains, according to the latest Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, one of…
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BBG Watch Commentary An Iranian-American journalist observed on Facebook that the Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service was not reporting for several days on the California fires which affected the Iranian-American community near Los Angeles. In her Facebook post, she…
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BBG Watch Commentary At the open meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) on November 14, Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) Executive Director Ann Noonan once again asked presidentially-appointed Board members who advise CEO John Lansing and other…
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