U.S. and International Media
BBG – USAGM Watch Media Commentary The Voice of America should be completely nonpartisan and objective as a source of accurate and balanced news. It should focus mostly on countries experiencing press censorship and countries of strategic interest to the…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary “Multiple Voice of America (VOA) reporters have repeatedly posted anti-Trump comments on their professional Twitter accounts, despite a social media policy requiring employee impartiality on social media platforms,” The Daily Caller reporter Shelby Talcott wrote…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary Secret Facebook Pages and Twitter Blockers at USAGM By BBG – USAGM Watch Contributor Senior VOA Reporter Was Forced to Reverse Twitter Block of Watchdog Site; Agency Operated or Sanctioned Secret…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary His selection as the Press Freedom Editor was praised and announced to the staff on April 1, 2019 by the Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett, but, according to reports in The Dailly Caller,…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary The Daily Caller writer Shelby Talcott has an update in a new article on partisan Facebook post by the Voice of America’s Press Freedom Editor who was highly regarded and appointed to his position by VOA…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary In an article for The National Interest website, reporter Shelby Talcott, who recently broke the story on partisan bias and violations of social media policy by some of the U.S. government-employee-editors of taxpayer-funded Voice of America…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary Secret Facebook Pages and Twitter Blockers at USAGM By BBG – USAGM Watch Contributor Senior VOA Reporter Was Forced to Reverse Twitter Block of Watchdog Site; Agency Operated or Sanctioned Secret Facebook…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary According to an article by The Daily Caller reporter Shelby Talcott, Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett and her boss, U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO, John Lansing, both of them appointed during…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett and her boss, U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO John Lansing were warned about these violations many months ago and did nothing. Voice Of America Ignored Multiple Warnings…
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BBG – USAGM Media Commentary An article in The Daily Caller from reporter Shelby Talcott reveals that a Voice of America (VOA) senior-level editor whose promotion was reportedly announced to staff earlier this year in a highly congratulatory e-mail…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary BBG – USAGM has confirmed that Jamie Fly, a senior fellow and director of the Future of Geopolitics and Asia programs at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), will be the next…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary “VOA says that it is ‘uncertain if or how we might approach it’“ In comments to The Daily Caller, Doug Bernard, identified as Voice of America Press Freedom Editor, explained why U.S. tax-funded media outlet,…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The New York Times “New Scandals Rock Government’s Foreign Broadcasting Service” was the New York Times article headline on July 8, 2019, but the story, just as the earlier VOA report, had only…
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BBG Watch – USAGM commentary In a much delayed and highly misleading message to employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), CEO John Lansing used half-truths and omitted many material facts to avoid making an apology for hiring…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Several women who have been longtime employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), previously known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), are telling their colleagues that they were passed up for promotions…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The independent and nonpartisan NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB.org) has appealed to Senator Marco Rubio to investigate any new plans of the management of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for U.S….
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