U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Commentary Rank and file federal employees of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) don’t seem to be buying the “good news” message on employee morale from BBG CEO John Lansing sent out a few weeks ago. An email…
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BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has learned that at least until recently some Voice of America (VOA) executives and managers, as well as members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), in addition to their official BBG email accounts…
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EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that one of the more experienced Voice of America (VOA) English news service journalists with extensive international reporting experience was strongly advising the management of the U.S. taxpayer-funded media entity in the…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a news report without much substantive information, written in a style similar to Soviet press agency TASS or communist Chinese press agency Xinhua state media communiques, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) still under its Obama-era…
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BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE The website of the Hudson Institute, http://www.hudson.org, a politically conservative, non-profit American think tank based in Washington, D.C. which was scheduled to host Wednesday, October 4, Guo Wengui, also known as Miles Kwok, China’s most famous…
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BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, a U.S.-based international human rights group that opposes forced abortion and sexual slavery in China, has issued an open letter on the expected investigation by the U.S. Office of Inspector General (OIG)…
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BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Four members of the U.S. Congress who serve on committees in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives which oversee the operations of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and the Voice of America (VOA)…
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BBG Watch Commentary Guo Wengui who is also known as Miles Kwok and is China’s most famous billionaire businessman and whistleblower seeking political asylum in the United States will speak at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC on October 4,…
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BBG Watch Commentary Changqing Cao, a U.S. based independent Chinese journalist and political commentator who has a wide social media following in China, including Hong Kong, and appears in TV programs in Taiwan, released a 25-minute YouTube video in which…
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BBG Watch Commentary Our watch dog website, BBGWatch.com, has passed the 10 million hits mark yesterday since it was first started in September 2008 by former and current Voice of America (VOA) and other Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) journalists…
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BBG Watch Commentary “Out of the 5 senior VOA Mandarin Service journalists who were placed on administrative leave 4 months ago, 4 remain on administrative leave with no hope of returning to work. Despite the fact that none have been…
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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 In what could be a plot of a surreal but all too true Franz Kafka or George Orwell novel, the management of U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) international radio, TV and internet outlet interrogated one of…
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BBG Watch Commentary Of course, BBC and Russia’s RT had live Facebook feeds from the aftermath of the Barcelona terror attack. As you might have guessed, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) did not. Eventually, quite a while after BBC…
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BBG Watch Commentary A few days ago, a young Chinese American girl wrote a check made out to VOA5 Justice. It was the first check from her first ever checking account. As she gave it to one of the five…
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