U.S. and International Media
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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BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and his committee staff found that insufficient management and devolved operating structures for digital advertising at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and…
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BBG Watch Commentary An Iranian-American journalist observed on Facebook that the Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service was not reporting for several days on the California fires which affected the Iranian-American community near Los Angeles. In her Facebook post, she…
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BBG Watch Media Report and Commentary A local American newspaper has posted a profile of radio and television broadcaster Blanquita Walsh Cullum who had served as one of the presidentially-appointed and Senate-confirmed members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)….
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BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) and its parent federal agency, United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), did not answer a media inquiry question as to why VOA and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Radio…
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BBG Watch Commentary According to Iranian-American Mahtab Farid, neither the U.S. tax-funded and Federally-managed Voice of America (VOA) nor Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Radio Farda, both of them overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM),…
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BBG Watch Commentary No Mention on Tax-funded VOA News Website of Possible Blexit Plenty of One-Sided Left-Wing Propaganda from Voice of America Photo of Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett holding an USAGM umbrella (United States…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has been warning about similar potential problems of foreign influence in other Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) services under the lax and dysfunctional management by the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
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OPINION U-SAG-M! The Rebranded Tower of Babel Old Is New, New Is Old By The Federalist With dysfunction being a cornerstone of all things U-SAG-M, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) or whatever you want to call it, the…
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BBG Watch History A Cold War Radio Museum article points out official bias and censorship in Voice of America’s (VOA) and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Radio Farda coverage of the Iranian regime under the current Obama administration…
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BBG Watch Commentary on USAGM A picture that’s worth a thousand words. The photo, sent to BBG Watch by U.S. government-employed journalists, shows Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett holding an umbrella with large USAGM letters. Sources tells that…
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BBG Watch Commentary on USAGM “Additionally, in the aggregate, reportage on bilateral relations between the U.S. government and the Iranian regime conveyed an impression of equivalence between the parties, a position that is both surprising and improper for…
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