U.S. and International Media
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary It appears from multiple online searches of U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) news websites [formerly Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)] that most likely all but one media service ignored Secretary Mike Pompeo’s important speech…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The history of the Voice of America has been written around the false myth that early VOA journalists always told the truth. In fact many of the early VOA officials and broadcasters who called themselves…
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OPINION Unacceptable Risks US Government International Broadcasting: World Press Freedom Day at USAGM By The Federalist On May 3, 2019 John Lansing, the CEO of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM or, U-SAG-M as we prefer to…
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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 U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) in the federal U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) has produced a report about award-winning Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova which amounted to spreading disinformation about the circumstances of her…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary American radio host and former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Blanquita Cullum who has criticized the Voice of America (VOA) for highlighting in news headlines and reports false propaganda generated by the Maduro regime…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary A Voice of America (VOA) correspondent felt the need to tweet Wednesday about the warning to the United States from Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif: “There’ll be consequences if US prevents #Iran…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE A just released study by the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) concludes that the track record of Iran media reform at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), previously known as the Broadcasting Board…
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BBG – USAGM Guest Commentary RFE/RL from Headline to Impact By Ted Lipien How a U.S. taxpayer-funded media entity achieves a pro-Iran regime “Hate America” impact. Scandal-ridden Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) seems to have…
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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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BBG Watch Commentary A Twitter poll, launched on March 21, 2019 by Radio Farda personality, political satirist, actor and TV and radio host Kambiz Hosseini (RFE/RL Radio Farda photo on his Facebook page), seems to confirm that Iran audience claims…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a new video from U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which is managed by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an Iranian journalist for RFE/RL’s Radio Farda declared with strong conviction that in Iran…
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OPINION Issues in the News: Royce Report on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads U.S. International Media: Information War Lost by USAGM By The Federalist “…Oversight is not a game. It is a core constitutional function,…
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BBG Watch Commentary Iranians are enraged by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Radio Farda, as well as in other instances by the Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service, for repeating the Iran regime’s propaganda without any added value of context…
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OPINION U-SAG-M — Federal Bureaucracy’s Fantasyland Information War Lost: Diversionary Tactics By The Federalist In recent weeks there have been several news accounts in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post and elsewhere…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a letter to the Editor of The Los Angeles Times, CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) John F. Lansing, who was appointed to his position in 2015 during the Obama administration, has blasted…
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