U.S. and International Media
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary A Voice of America VOA English News report, “Iranian Americans Show Support for Protests at Home,” included a comment by an Iranian-America which could be interpreted as critical of President Trump, but the VOA report…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Iran-born American journalist Mahtab Farid continues to point out serious management problems at the Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service which have been lingering, according to many critics, for many years. Independent experts hired by…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary On December 13, 2019, Mahtab Farid, an Iranian-born American journalist, well respected in Washington, DC, where she works as a journalist, posted her highly critical comments on Facebook about the Voice of America (VOA) Persian…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary Michael Pack, President Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which includes the Voice of America (VOA) and other taxpayer-funded media entities serving audiences overseas, testified Thursday before the U.S….
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BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary OPINION U-SAG-M US Agency for Global Media John Lansing Departs By The Federalist John Lansing, the hapless and luckless chief executive officer (CEO) of U-SAG-M (US Agency for Global Madness…err…Media) will be leaving the…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary Ilan Berman, senior vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC, published an op-ed in The Washington Times on what he and many other critics see as the failure of Persian-language media outreach…
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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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