U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Media Former director of Radio Liberty during the fall of communism in the Soviet block and former presidentially-appointed member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), S. Enders Wimbush, has published highly critical comments about Radio Farda, the…
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BBG Watch Media A longtime critic of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), New York Times best-selling author, political commentator, and investigative journalist Kenneth R. Timmerman, who accused the Voice of America Persian Service of posting “wild fantasy-land libel partisan…
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BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) continues to repeat anti-U.S., anti-Trump, and anti-Israel propaganda emanating from Iran’s government officials and autocratic religious leaders without providing any balance, context, or counter. The U.S. taxpayer-funded media entity (Annual…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has found more evidence of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) repeating anti-Israel propaganda emanating from Iran’s autocratic religious leaders without any balance, context, or counter provided by the U.S. taxpayer-funded media entity (Annual…
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BBG Watch Commentary Working without proper guidance and leadership from the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) or their own senior management, some reporters, editors and managers at American tax-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) are helping to…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that several highly-qualified individuals with various combinations of foreign policy, public diplomacy, national security and journalistic experience are being mentioned as potential candidates to head the dysfunctional Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal…
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BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224 million) Voice of America (VOA), run by the vast dysfunctional bureaucracy of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal agency ($777 million, including VOA), has set a new record for one-sided, unanswered Trump-bashing commentaries….
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BBG Watch Commentary In a stunning display of chaos, mismanagement and lack of oversight, key management units within the federal Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) have for several years followed and legitimized a Twitter account allegedly belonging to the director…
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BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John F. Lansing apparently gave an interview to Russia’s propaganda channel SPUTNIK. If granting an interview to a well-known anti-U.S. and anti-Western Kremlin disinformation and information war outlet was not a…
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BBG Watch Commentary A journalist who writes for the U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M FY2017) Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service posted this on social media: “Obama a ‘moderate’ only in context of American imperialism. Was no friend of the…
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BBG Watch Media Report/Commentary In a new Washington Times op-ed published December 11, 2016, New York Times best-selling author, political commentator, investigative reporter and Republican Party activist Kenneth R. Timmerman accused U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) of being “transformed…
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BBG Watch Media In a Washington Times op-ed published November 21, 2016, New York Times best-selling author, political commentator, investigative reporter and Republican Party activist Kenneth R. Timmerman accused U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe /…
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BBG Watch Commentary According to Voice of America Director Ms.Amanda Bennett’s figures, less than 0.0001% Mandarin speakers, 0.0004% English speakers, 0.002% Spanish speakers, 0.006% Russian speakers, and 0.03% Persian speakers watched VOA’s live online streaming of Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump’s speech last week at the Republican National Convention…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a move that it likely to seriously damage the reputation of new Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett, her deputy Sandy Sugawara, and the credibility of Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) new CEO John Lansing,…
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BBG Watch Commentary Why has U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America’s VOA News voanews.com English language website ignored as a news story for many days the explosive controversy over President Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes admitting in a New…
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BBG Watch Commentary INTRODUCTION: In Russia, journalists who run afoul of the Kremlin or the business mafia, end up dead. Case in point: Anna Politkovskaya, murdered in 2006. Other critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin also ended up dead, among…
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