U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Commentary This is @barbaraslavin1 showing her fingers 2us. How professional!! @AP @AFP @Reuters @CNN #FreeIran #journalism @FoxNews @CNBC @USATODAY pic.twitter.com/3S3k8whFXg — Shirin Nariman (@ShirinNariman) July 18, 2017 Shirin Nariman @ShirinNariman who has posted a…
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BBG Watch Commentary Chinese maverick billionaire whistleblower Guo Wengui has taken on the Voice of America (VOA), still controlled by holdover Obama era officials, with a meme posted on on Twitter and Facebook showing the VOA logo lumped together with…
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BBG Watch Commentary An inside source told BBG Watch that there has been no let-up in frequent and widespread use of obscenities by Voice of America (VOA) Newsroom managers, editors, news writers and reporters to describe President Trump in their…
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BBG Watch Commentary The White House has released yesterday (Thursday) a statement on the death of Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner and dissident Liu Xiaobo, but the Voice of America (VOA) failed to report on it on its English news…
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BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) was well behind BBC, Radio France Internationale (RFI), Deutsche Welle (DW) and many other international news organizations in reporting on Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, a true hero…
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BBG Watch Commentary Some of the more senior as well as some newly-hired newsroom reporters working for the U.S. taxpayer-funded ($221 million FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) have been overheard making what one VOA staffer who was not a…
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BBG Watch Media #ReformBBG Twitter hashtag tweets include charges that Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) Persian News Network (PNN) and Radio Farda (operated within the BBG agency by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty…
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BBG Watch Commentary In its superficial and substandard coverage of President Trump’s major foreign policy speech on Cuba, which he delivered in Miami Friday, U.S. taxpayer-funded ($221 million FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) Spanish Service failed to carry the…
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BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service journalist, senior editor Huchen Zhang, spoke today at the open board meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). He is one of the “VOA Mandarin Five” journalists placed on administrative…
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BBG Watch Commentary Radio Farda, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) “Persian-language service too often parrots state media and doesn’t give Israel a fair shake,” Sohrab Ahmari, Wall Street Journal‘s editorial writer based in London wrote in an op-ed….
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BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Four Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service journalists have expressed concerns that their personal security has been jeopardized as a result of what they allege is a botched-up and retaliatory investigation launched against them by VOA’s…
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BBG Watch Commentary “A dispute over why Voice of America abruptly shut down an interview with a vocal critic of Beijing is raising questions about whether Chinese leadership influenced the U.S. broadcaster,” CNBC reporter Evelyn Cheng wrote in an online…
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BBG Watch Commentary Unlike BBC, Al Jazeera, RT, DW and almost all other major international and U.S. news media outlets, U.S. tax-funded ($221 million in FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) did not have a live feed on its Facebook…
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BBG Watch Commentary Russia’s RT posted the full text of fired FBI Director James Comey’s prepared remarks the day before his testimony on Capitol Hill about his conversations with President Donald Trump. BBC also had a report on Comey’s prepared…
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BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), managed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal agency, has allowed thousands of anti-gay comments to be posted on VOA websites and VOA social media pages, some of them…
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BBG Watch Media Sasha Gong, Voice of America’s Mandarin Service Chief who has been suspended by VOA director Amanda Bennett, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “How China Managed to Muffle the Voice of America.” The full…
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