U.S. and International Media
Opinion Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost The Never-Ending Downward Spiral Part Two By The Federalist There used to be a time when there was a saying around the Voice of America (VOA): “You don’t come to…
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BBG Watch A Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employee sent email to the two U.S. Senators from the employee’s state protesting against the proposed de-federalization of the Voice of America (VOA). The employee shared the letter with the BBG union,…
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BBG Watch Commentary Ben Rhodes, Assistant to President President Obama and his Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting, who made highly controversial comments in his interview with The New York Times, appears to have a special role…
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OPINION Throwing Good Money After Bad: BBG’s Desperate Struggle Against Reform Will Taxpayers Continue to Foot This Bill in 2016. . . and Beyond? By Dan Robinson In a recent commentary published by BBG Watch, one of my…
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BBG Watch Commentary A $400 million class action lawsuit was filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims against the Broadcasting Board of Governors over personnel and contracting practices overseen by top agency officials in recent years. The plaintiffs,…
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BBG Watch Commentary Some Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees are scratching their heads to explain a recent announcement by new BBG CEO John Lansing that two longtime BBG officials, SES (Senior Executive Service) executives Jeff Trimble and Marie Lennon,…
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BBG Watch Commentary We could not find any online trace of U.S.taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) paying any attention to Sunday’s observances in Estonia of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact anniversary. The Estonian Public Broadcasting website had posted a report on…
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BBG Watch Commentary www.Kremlin.ru 2006 Photo of President Putin Radio Svoboda Screen Shot 2015-05-27 at 5:38 PM ET English-language newspaper published in Russia, The Moscow Times, reported that Radio Svoboda — which is the Russian name of Radio Liberty, the…
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VOICE OF AMERICA COVERAGE OF HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE VOTE BBG Watch Commentary The VOA News report was posted online Thursday, May 21, 2015 12:31 PM ET. As of Friday May 22, 8:27 AM ET, the VOA News report…
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BBG Watch Commentary Thursday, May 21, 2015, the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed bipartisan legislation to reform U.S. international media outreach overseen by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). In introducing H.R. 2323, the United States International…
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BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE U.S. Congressman Kevin Yoder (R-K) has written a letter to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) expressing concerns regarding the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) decision to phase out Radio Free Iraq, which is part of Radio…
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BBG Watch Commentary According to a new report released by the Aspen Institute, at the third annual Aspen Institute Dialogue on Diplomacy and Technology meeting in early August 2014, U.S. policy and technology heavyweights, including two former chairs of the…
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BBG Watch Media Former Voice of America (VOA) director David S. Jackson has published an opinion article on the Public Diplomacy Council (PDC) website in which he argues for combining journalistic objectivity and independence with greater attention being paid by…
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BBG WATCH EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has seen the H.R. 2323, the United States International Communications Reform Act of 2015 Draft Report Language, which further clarifies intentions of Republican and Democratic sponsors and co-sponsors of the bipartisan bill to reform the…
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BBG Watch Broadcasting Board of Governors reform bill reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives with greater protection of Voice of America news objectivity. U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel…
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BBG Watch Commentary British Prime Minister David Cameron was not ousted as Voice of America (VOA) speculated he could be, but has returned to Downing Street with the Tories winning the general election. It was Ed Miliband who resigned as…
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