U.S. and International Media
OPINION Ann Noonan, Executive Director of the independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB.org) spoke in Washington, DC at the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s (USAGM) Board of Governors open meeting on June 5, 2019. She discussed a continuing…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The Washington Free Beacon reported that two more VOA Mandarin 5 award-winning veteran journalists were fired by the senior management of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and the Voice of America (VOA) over…
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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 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 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 On April 27, 2019 Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) Executive Director Ann Noonan (2018 photo) spoke in tribute to Harry Wu, the late CUSIB Advisory Board member and founder of the Laogai Museum, and…
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BBG – USAGM Watch According to an e-mail seen by BBG – USAGM Watch, a top lieutenant to the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) holdover CEO John F. Lansing is blaming the former president of Radio Free Europe /…
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GUEST BBG – USAGM WATCH COMMENTARY Silencing Steve Bannon By Sasha Gong It is hard to imagine anyone being able to shut him up, but U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) in the hands of Obama-era appointees…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary According to sources in the Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service and friends of former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon, a few months ago VOA China Branch recorded a nearly one-hour-long interview with Bannon…
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BBG Watch Commentary 美国之音给您拜年啦！美国之音台长贝内特、中文部主任托瑞埃罗和其他语言组的同仁祝您🐷年身体健康、合家欢乐、万事如意！！！ pic.twitter.com/0aJwkGAgWx — 美国之音中文网 (@VOAChinese) February 3, 2019 VOA Director Amanda Bennett’s Chinese New Year Greeting Backfires By Anonymous VOA China Branch Reporter Note: VOA journalist who wrote this commentary wants to remain anonymous…
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BBG Watch Commentary Question Did the Voice of America (VOA) under the directorship of Pulitzer-winning journalist Amanda Bennett, an Obama administration holdover appointee, comply with the VOA Charter and VOA Journalistic Code in how VOA News first reported on BuzzFeed…
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BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett has made various charges against VOA Mandarin Service Chief Dr. Sasha Gong who was first suspended with pay and has now been fired by VOA’s parent agency, the United States…
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BBG Watch Commentary In posts on Twitter and in a telephone interview in which he answered questions from BBG Watch, Chinese whistleblower Guo Wengui has accused U.S. government-run and taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) of implying in a headline on…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary According to a report of the Working Group on Chinese Influence Activities in the United States prepared by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Center on US-China Relations at Asia Society in New York,…
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BBG Watch Commentary A Failure of Leadership No matter how one reads the Washington Post’s blog opinion article by Erik Wemple about the current state of the taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), it shows, perhaps inadvertently and perhaps contrary to…
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BBG Watch Commentary In secret messages to BBG Watch, some of the remaining anti-communist journalists at U.S. tax-funded, U.S. government-managed Voice of America (VOA) express their fear and horror at the way the “VOA Mandarin Five” broadcasters have been treated…
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