U.S. and International Media
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary More than a year ago U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO John F. Lansing, a holdover official from the Obama administration, received a warning from an independent journalist and international media expert about public…
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BBG Watch Commentary German domestic’s public radio Deutschlandfunk reported recently on widespread accusations made by independent journalists against U.S. tax-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) that RFE/RL Tajik and Kazakh services repeated and helped to promote propaganda in…
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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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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 On April 27, 2019 Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) Executive Director Ann Noonan (2018 photo) spoke in tribute to Harry Wu, the late CUSIB Advisory Board member and founder of the Laogai Museum, and…
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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 Watch Commentary By Ted Lipien Conservative African American activist Candace Owens (Photo by Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons), who defends President Trump, has been ignored by the Voice of America (VOA). The U.S. tax-funded…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary MAXIMUM HUBRIS: THE USAGM – PART THREE NUMBERS GAME, TAXPAYERS AS CHUMPS, AND DONALD TRUMP READ PART ONE READ PART TWO By Dan Robinson How one of the worst federal agencies perpetuates itself…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary MAXIMUM HUBRIS: THE USAGM – PART ONE NUMBERS GAME, TAXPAYERS AS CHUMPS, AND DONALD TRUMP READ PART TWO By Dan Robinson How one of the worst federal agencies perpetuates itself…
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OPINION The USAGM Numbers Game Numbers of Convenience Without Consequence By The Federalist The audience numbers game played by the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM or, U-SAG-M) is one of our favorite topics. And the agency never…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary America’s top expert on Kremlin propaganda Paul Goble has commented on the controversy over Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service which, he wrote, “has been criticized for being too cozy with Dushanbe and whose leadership has now been…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary A March 5, 2019 screenshot of a 2016 post, showing a dog and “F*ck Trump” graffiti, which appears on a personal Facebook page linked to a Voice of America (VOA) reporter who has other similar…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary A screenshot taken on November 19, 2017 of an anti-Trump meme reposted on Facebook May 7, 2016 by a VOA reporter during the U.S. presidential election campaign. In the last several years, U.S. tax-funded Voice…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The e-mail reposted below with some minor editing was sent to BBG Watch by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists in September 2016. BBG Watch is now called BBG – USAGM Watch. The…
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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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