U.S. and International Media
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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OPINION “Weaponization?” US Government International Media Information War: Lost By The Federalist A recent article was brought to our attention concerning the Farsi language broadcasts to Iran by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) through the Voice…
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BBG Watch Commentary Sheema Kalbasi, who tweets as @IranianWoman, is a U.S.-based Iranian poet, filmmaker, rights activist who had worked for UNHCR and Center for Refugees in Pakistan and UNA Denmark. She is one of many pro-democracy Iranians banned in…
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BBG Watch Commentary With increasing frequency and frustration, anti-regime Iran scholars based in the West, as well as anti-regime activists in Iran, are posting highly critical comments on social media about the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) management of U.S….
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OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Digital Meltdown: The Perfect Storm US Government International Media Information War: Lost By The Federalist As reported by Broadcasting Board of Governors employees in BBG Watch, the agency’s primary digital production…
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OPINION By Ted Lipien Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett left out some critical information when she wrote in a co-authored Washington Post op-ed posted online May 12, 2018: BENNETT & LEE: “It was only after World War II…
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BBG Watch Commentary Dr. Majid Mohammadi, author of more than three dozen books on Iran, joins a growing number of award-wining journalists and scholars who find it impossible to work for the current senior management of Radio Free Europe /…
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