U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch History Very few Americans and few Poles know today that during World War II, the Voice of America (VOA), then called the Oversees Branch of the Office of War Information (OWI), engaged in a massive propaganda campaign designed…
Read more
BBG Watch Commentary If you are wondering how U.S. taxpayer-funded ($777 million in FY 2017) Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) spends your money on its mission of “to inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom…
Read more
BBG Watch Commentary “The Internet was supposed to foster democracy. China has different ideas.” was the headline of a recent Washington Post article. “These, apparently, are the days when such a story can be written without a single mention of…
Read more
BBG Watch Media The Laogai Research Foundation (LRF) established by Laogai survivor Harry Wu has reported on the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) appeal to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) not to abandon traditional media, such…
Read more
BBG Watch BBG Watch reposts the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) press release which focuses on warnings from CUSIB and Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Jeff Shell about the new “Great Cannon” Internet censorship tool being…
Read more
BBG Watch Media A congressional hearing, entitled “Confronting Russia’s Weaponization of Information,” was convened Wednesday in Washington by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Rep. Royce said that the agency expected to manage U.S….
Read more
BBG Watch Commentary In a display of independence and journalistic courage, the Turkish Service of the Voice of America (VOA) ignored the management’s ban on showing the cover of the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo to predominately Muslim audiences. The…
Read more
BBG Watch Commentary Adam Kredo reported in the Washington Free Beacon that an Iranian expert and regime opponent was temporarily banned from appearing on Voice of America’s Persian language news station. This happened after Majid Mohammadi, an Iranian-American academic, compared…
Read more
VOA Charter Commentary Steve Peacock reported in an article on the WND website that “the Obama administration is looking to negotiate with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the government that emerged after a war costing more than 58,000 American lives,…
Read more
BBG Watch Commentary The independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) has posted a press release calling radio “the best countermeasure to Internet censorship and spying on netizens in China.” BBG Watch is reposting the CUSIB press…
Read more
BBG Watch Commentary Radio World reported that Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Shortwave Committee Chair Matt Armstrong expressed surprise at the statement from the independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) calling on him to step down…
Read more
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Asia (RFA) listeners in Vietnam are upset over the abrupt ending of RFA’s shortwave radio broadcasts to Vietnam at the beginning of July by the decision of the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) International Broadcasting…
Read more
International Broadcasting Bureau – We Define Success By Being Dysfunctional and Defunct – Information War Lost: A Map, Malice and Mission Impossible By The Federalist Yet again, another incomplete, disingenuous and misleading press release from the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) in the…
Read more
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America English news website was more than 24 hours late in posting a news report on a major demonstration in Moscow on Sunday against the Kremlin’s propaganda and censorship of the press in Russia. While…
Read more
BBG Watch Commentary At a recent Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) panel, no one in Washington picked up on a warning from Radio Liberty Russian Service Director Irina Lagunina that a new Russian law, which will go into effect next…
Read more
BBG Watch Commentary In yet another one of its many news reporting failures, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) failed to report so far today (as of 8:36 PM EDT, Friday, April 11, 2014) in English and most other VOA…
Read more