U.S. and International Media
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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BBG Watch Commentary Wei Jingsheng, an internationally known leader in the 1978 Chinese Democracy Wall Movement, former political prisoner in China for 18 years and winner of the 1994 Olof Palme Prize and the 1996 Sakharov Prize has called for…
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BBG Watch Commentary On one of the most crucial news days so far of Donald Trump’s presidency, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA – $224M FY 2017), belonging to the dysfunctional Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG – $777M) agency, did…
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BBG Watch Commentary Tax-funded Voice of America (VOA), which costs U.S. taxpayers quarter of a billion dollars a year ($224 million in FY 2017), finds it difficult to attract sizable audiences to its serious news content on social media platforms…
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BBG Watch Commentary A Voice of America (VOA) reporter says: “It is so quiet at times in the [Voice of America] newsroom you would think we were closed.” “Stories are not updated for hours, and even then…
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OPINION/COMMENTARY The upper management of the Voice of America (VOA) and its parent agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) did not suspend (placed on administrative leave) any one among VOA Newsroom editors and reporters who publicly lampooned President Trump,…
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BBG Watch Commentary On the day Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John F. Lansing spoke in Washington in connection with the World Press Freedom Day about the importance of defending persecuted BBG journalists who expose government corruption abroad, the…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has drafted some questions which we hope former CNN correspondent Frank Sesno will pose to Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John Lansing at the World Press Freedom Day: A conversation with BBG & GWU…
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