U.S. and International Media
BBG – USAGM Watch Media Commentary The Voice of America should be completely nonpartisan and objective as a source of accurate and balanced news. It should focus mostly on countries experiencing press censorship and countries of strategic interest to the…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary Secret Facebook Pages and Twitter Blockers at USAGM By BBG – USAGM Watch Contributor Senior VOA Reporter Was Forced to Reverse Twitter Block of Watchdog Site; Agency Operated or Sanctioned Secret…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary His selection as the Press Freedom Editor was praised and announced to the staff on April 1, 2019 by the Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett, but, according to reports in The Dailly Caller,…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary The Daily Caller writer Shelby Talcott has an update in a new article on partisan Facebook post by the Voice of America’s Press Freedom Editor who was highly regarded and appointed to his position by VOA…
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BBG – USAGM Commentary In an article for The National Interest website, reporter Shelby Talcott, who recently broke the story on partisan bias and violations of social media policy by some of the U.S. government-employee-editors of taxpayer-funded Voice of America…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary Secret Facebook Pages and Twitter Blockers at USAGM By BBG – USAGM Watch Contributor Senior VOA Reporter Was Forced to Reverse Twitter Block of Watchdog Site; Agency Operated or Sanctioned Secret Facebook…
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BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary According to an article by The Daily Caller reporter Shelby Talcott, Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett and her boss, U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO, John Lansing, both of them appointed during…
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BBG – USAGM Media Commentary An article in The Daily Caller from reporter Shelby Talcott reveals that a Voice of America (VOA) senior-level editor whose promotion was reportedly announced to staff earlier this year in a highly congratulatory e-mail…
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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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