U.S. and International Media
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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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The Trump administration’s proposed Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2020 calls for a significant cut of $180 million in the FY2020 budget of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) which…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary Various niche media outlets were reporting last week on new serious allegations against the leadership and some of the journalistic staff at the U.S. Agency for Global Media’s (USAGM) Voice of America and Radio Free Europe…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary UPDATE In yet another news reporting failure for the Voice of America, BBC, Russia’s RT and SPUTNIK and many other media have already posted reports about the U.S. House of Representatives voting to condemn “hateful…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA), which repeatedly broadcast one-sided attacks by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Donald Trump, has been completely silent for the last few days on its VOA News English website…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary According to sources in the Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service and friends of former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon, a few months ago VOA China Branch recorded a nearly one-hour-long interview with Bannon…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has ignored “The Donald” pro-President Trump exhibition in Albania by Albanian artist Avni Delvina which has attracted attention from Albanian and international media. The artist lives in…
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USAGM Watch Commentary On January 31, 2019, the lead paragraph in a news report issued to the whole world by the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) shouted: “A suspected hate-fueled assault on Jussie Smollett, a black, gay and Jewish…
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