U.S. and International Media
OPINION BBG Watch Guest Commentary History’s Mysteries: Those Who Listen in the Dark (解密时刻：偷听“敌台” 美国之音 英文字幕版) 32,323 views as of April 19, 2018 魏京生：“那个时候开始，悄悄地在家里头，收音机打开慢慢找找找，找着了。”Starting at that time, at home in secret, I would turn on the radio and slowly turn…
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BBG Watch Commentary Young journalists, most of them women, from countries without free media are criticizing senior management of U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and its managing U.S. federal agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary On April 19, 2017, reportedly on orders of the senior management of U.S. taxpayer-funded, U.S. government-run Voice of America (VOA) led by VOA Director Amanda Bennett and her deputy Sandy Sugawara, VOA Mandarin Service journalists were…
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BBG Watch Commentary Remarks to the Chinese American staff made this week by Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett, who — according to numerous reports — had ordered the shortening of the April 19, 2017 VOA interview with Chinese…
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BBG Watch Commentary The independent and nonpartisan NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) has a press release on the need for a congressional investigation of Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Voice of America (VOA) upper management…
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OPINION BBG Comedy Club Part Two: The Road Show US International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist In our first installment in this series, we dealt with a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
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BBG Watch Commentary The independent, non-partisan NGO, Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) has reacted to the news that the person appointed by Voice of America’s (VOA) senior management as VOA China Branch Chief does not speak nor read Mandarin….
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BBG Watch Commentary Ann Noonan, Executive Director of the independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) spoke at the open board meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) held in Washington, DC on March 14, 2018….
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BBG Watch Commentary According to the announcement posted on the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) website, the Broadcasting Board of Governors will meet on March 14, at 1:00 pm at its Washington, D.C., headquarters to review programming to Russia, China…
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BBG Watch Commentary Among those disagreeing with Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Voice of America (VOA) officials is former Chinese political prisoner, human rights activist Zhang Lin who has recently returned to the United States after being imprisoned by…
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BBG Watch Commentary UK-based award-winning investigative reporter Shahida Tulaganova joined another award-winning journalist Khadija Ismayilova, a former political prisoner in Azerbaijan, in criticizing the management of their former employer, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for killing journalism, creativity…
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BBG Watch Commentary Ted Lipien, a former VOA acting associate director who is one of the co-founders and supporters of BBG Watch, has an op-ed in today’s Washington Examiner on the Voice of America coverage of the Iranian protests and…
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BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE Commentary BBG Watch has learned from multiple sources in Washington, DC and Tbilisi, Georgia that senior management of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is putting pressure on its Georgian Service to affiliate with a domestic private Georgian…
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BBG Watch Commentary A group of some of the most prominent U.S. scholars specializing in China studies has sent a letter in defense of Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service journalists who are being threatened with firing by VOA’s senior…
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BBG Watch Commentary “Led by a stable of Obama appointees, the Voice of America and the Persian language service at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Radio Farda) are being used to support the Iranian regime and denigrate the leadership of President…
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BBG Watch Commentary “Voice of America China Guo Wengui Part I” was the most viewed post on the BBG Watch site in 2017, getting 17,050 website views in addition to any views and engagements on social media. The second most…
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