U.S. and International Media
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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OPINION GUEST ANALYSIS Radio Farda: isn’t it time for a house cleaning? By Majid Mohammadi President Trump has chosen a new foreign and security policy team, Bolton and Pompeo, who have a passion to put more pressure on Islamic…
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OPINION BBG Comedy Club Part Two: The Road Show US International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist In our first installment in this series, we dealt with a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
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OPINION BBG Comedy Club Part One US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist In case you haven’t realized it by now, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is a comedy resource….
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BBG Watch Commentary Dissident Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists want to tell House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) that U.S. tax-funded RFE/RL has failed to counter Russia’s and Iran’s propaganda under its current Obama-era management. In a message to Speaker…
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BBG Watch Media “Why do people in Iran call the U.S. Voice of America (VOA) the ‘Voice of Ayatollahs’?,” asks Ziva Dahl, a Senior Fellow at Haym Salomon Center, in her op-ed in The Daily Caller. “Tragically, rather than promote…
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BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) has posted multiple raw videos without any commentary or context showing burnings of American and Israeli flags (screenshot above and below) in protests against President Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy…
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BBG Watch Commentary It would have been inconceivable for the head of U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) to tell Americans or RFE/RL audiences during the Cold War that Russians elected Stalin because he brought “strength” to…
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BBG Watch Commentary According to the announcement posted on the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) website, the Broadcasting Board of Governors will meet on March 14, at 1:00 pm at its Washington, D.C., headquarters to review programming to Russia, China…
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BBG Watch Commentary A group of Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service journalists has prepared a memorandum in which they decry what the employees see as a loss of VOA’s objectivity and mismanagement of human and capital resources by the…
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BBG Watch Commentary As part of our HISTORY series, we repost today an article from the Cold War Radio Museum website about congressional criticism of the Voice of America for not serving the information needs of listeners behind the iron…
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