U.S. and International Media
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary More than a year ago U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO John F. Lansing, a holdover official from the Obama administration, received a warning from an independent journalist and international media expert about public…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary As the Advisory Board members prepare for their June 5th U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) meeting, they should plan taking immediate actions to improve perpetually and dismally low employee morale at the Voice of…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called recently for a leadership change at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) “to perform its function in a way that is important and noble,” but the USAGM…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary It appears from multiple online searches of U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) news websites [formerly Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)] that most likely all but one media service ignored Secretary Mike Pompeo’s important speech…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The history of the Voice of America has been written around the false myth that early VOA journalists always told the truth. In fact many of the early VOA officials and broadcasters who called themselves…
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OPINION Unacceptable Risks US Government International Broadcasting: World Press Freedom Day at USAGM By The Federalist On May 3, 2019 John Lansing, the CEO of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM or, U-SAG-M as we prefer to…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA) has so far (as of 12:20 AM ET, Wed., May 8) ignored on its main VOA News English website a powerful pro-press freedom speech delivered Tuesday afternoon in Washington,…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary What Went Wrong with USAGM • VOA • RFE/RL? • In recent reporting from Venezuela, the Voice of America highlighted the propaganda language of the Maduro regime and Russia’s state media that tried…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary American radio host and former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Blanquita Cullum who has criticized the Voice of America (VOA) for highlighting in news headlines and reports false propaganda generated by the Maduro regime…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary American radio host and former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Blanquita Cullum has criticized the Voice of America (VOA) for highlighting in news headlines and reports false propaganda generated by the Maduro regime in…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Bradley A. Thayer, Ph.D., a professor of political science at the University of Texas, San Antonio and coauthor of “How China Sees the World: Han-Centrism and the Balance of Power in International Politics,” called in…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary “A Western voice has tilted toward post-Soviet authoritarian leader in Central Asia, say diplomats and the network.” This is how Jessica Donati who covers foreign affairs and the State Department for the Wall Street Journal…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary A Voice of America (VOA) correspondent felt the need to tweet Wednesday about the warning to the United States from Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif: “There’ll be consequences if US prevents #Iran…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE A just released study by the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) concludes that the track record of Iran media reform at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), previously known as the Broadcasting Board…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary By Ted Lipien Conservative African American activist Candace Owens (Photo by Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons), who defends President Trump, has been ignored by the Voice of America (VOA). The U.S. tax-funded…
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