U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Ann Noonan, Executive Director for the independent and nonpartisan NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) spoke at the open BBG board meeting in Washington, DC on Wednesday, August 30, 2017, about the VOA Guo Wengui…
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BBG Watch Commentary Former New York Times Beijing Bureau employee, Chinese journalist and political commentator Zhao Yan, told members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) today in Washington how his freelance contract with the Voice of America (VOA) as…
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BBG Watch Commentary An inside source told BBG Watch that there has been no let-up in frequent and widespread use of obscenities by Voice of America (VOA) Newsroom managers, editors, news writers and reporters to describe President Trump in their…
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BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) was well behind BBC, Radio France Internationale (RFI), Deutsche Welle (DW) and many other international news organizations in reporting on Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, a true hero…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a speech delivered at a largely Chinese American event in Flushing, New York organized by Beijing Spring to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) Executive…
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BBG Watch Commentary, Former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director Ted Lipien has posted a comment in response to Ms. Martha Bayles’ article, “Don’t Kick VOA When It’s Down” published on the website of the Public Diplomacy Council. Lipien,…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has drafted some questions which we hope former CNN correspondent Frank Sesno will pose to Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John Lansing at the World Press Freedom Day: A conversation with BBG & GWU…
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BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has cut short its interview with Chinese businessman Guo Wengui who was alleging widespread corruption within the Chinese Communist Party. As reported by South China Morning Post, “Washington DC-based Voice…
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BBG Watch Commentary After criticism from BBG Watch, Voice of America (VOA) reporters, VOA director Amanda Bennett and the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) VOA’s parent agency’s public outreach specialists no longer wonder whether Somali pirates who seize ships and…
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BBG Watch Commentary The writer of this journalistically confused and one sided New Republic article about the Voice of America (VOA) “cheerfully” reports several non-facts and half truths that come close to being ” fake news”: “Republicans have worked to…
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BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America “(VOA) used to take pride in interviewing Vaclav Havel who told the truth. It now takes pride in interviewing a hostage taker who told lies,” Ann Noonan Executive Director of the…
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BBG Watch Commentary At the April 6 board meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Ann Noonan, Executive Director of the independent, non-partisan Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) expressed concern over “blatant one-sided partisanship” and use…
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BBG Watch Media Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees have been rating their agency in Office of Personnel Management (OPM) surveys as one of the worst managed in the federal government. In the latest, 2016 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS),…
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BBG Watch Commentary House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) welcomed the House passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 with the provision on eliminating the governing board of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the…
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BBG Watch Speaking at an event last week in Flushing, NY, sponsored by the Qi’s Cultural Foundation, Ann Noonan, Executive Director for the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB.org), stressed the need for the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to…
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BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) Executive Director Ann Noonan addressed the 2016 Tiananmen Square Memorial Rally held in New York City on Friday, June 3. In her speech, Noonan appealed to the Broadcasting Board…
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