U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Media Sasha Gong, Voice of America’s Mandarin Service Chief who has been suspended by VOA director Amanda Bennett, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “How China Managed to Muffle the Voice of America.” The full…
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BBG Watch Commentary Wei Jingsheng, an internationally known leader in the 1978 Chinese Democracy Wall Movement, former political prisoner in China for 18 years and winner of the 1994 Olof Palme Prize and the 1996 Sakharov Prize has called for…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary Veteran Washington journalist and political author Bill Gertz reports in the Washington Free Beacon that an exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with former close ties to the Chinese communist government has begun revealing secrets about Beijing’s…
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OPINION A Good Swift Kick US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist Professor Martha Bayles is an erudite chronicler of US Government international broadcasting. Much of the time, we find her observations to be exceptionally…
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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 Chinese bookseller, free speech advocate and former political prisoner in China Lam Wing-Kee 林榮基 has criticized the embattled U.S. taxpayer-funded and government-run international broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) for selective coverage of topics which the government in…
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BBG Watch Commentary An appeal from Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO and Director John F. Lansing to agency’s federal employees with regard to the 2017 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) comes in the wake of Voice of America (VOA)…
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OPINION/COMMENTARY The upper management of the Voice of America (VOA) and its parent agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) did not suspend (placed on administrative leave) any one among VOA Newsroom editors and reporters who publicly lampooned President Trump,…
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BBG Watch Commentary As Voice of America director Amanda Bennett suspends and investigates VOA China journalists, shouldn’t she also be suspended and investigated? As the recording of Monday’s meeting shows, Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett certainly has exhibited…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary The South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong English-language newspaper, has reported on five Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service staffers being put on administrative leave while the management of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),…
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BBG Watch Commentary On the day Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John F. Lansing spoke in Washington in connection with the World Press Freedom Day about the importance of defending persecuted BBG journalists who expose government corruption abroad, the…
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Voice of America director cut short Guo Wengui live interview BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE Commentary BBG Watch has seen evidence that Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett, who is one of several Obama administration holdovers in the Broadcasting Board of…
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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 On Monday, May 1, supporters of press freedom in China and in the United States may have an opportunity to ask Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John F. Lansing about the recent censorship of a Voice…
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BBG Watch Commentary Chinese Americans, former Chinese dissidents, Chinese students and media freedom activists in the Washington, DC area have staged a demonstration in front of the Voice of America (VOA) building near the Capital Hill, protesting against the decision…
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VOA China Fought Mgmt Push To Limit Guo Wengui Interview — Part III Reputation Damaged — A Commentary Journalists in Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service strongly resisted last-minute but relentless pressure from VOA Obama administration holdover executives,…
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