U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Commentary Cold War Radio Museum Voice of America Then and Now Historically, partisanship at the Voice of America has been most often associated with Left-wing bias of some of its officials and central English newsroom reporters. By…
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BBG Watch Commentary A Failure of Leadership No matter how one reads the Washington Post’s blog opinion article by Erik Wemple about the current state of the taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), it shows, perhaps inadvertently and perhaps contrary to…
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BBG Watch Commentary Did Voice of America try to censor Greta Van Susteren, who works as a pro-bono contributor and VOA television program host, or censor Donald Trump? For whatever reason, the Voice of America (VOA) did not include on…
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OPINION U-SAG-M Fantasyland Special 2018 Holiday Edition US Government International Media? By The Federalist The U-SAG-M fantasyland is in full swing during the 2018 holiday season. As we’ve said many times before, you can’t make…
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BBG Watch Commentary Senior management of the Voice of America (VOA) and its parent agency, the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) still run by Obama Administration holdover appointees, VOA Director Amanda Bennett and USAGM CEO John F. Lansing,…
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BBG Watch Commentary Journalists formerly linked with the Voice of America (VOA) have criticized a Washington Post op-ed by VOA director Amanda Bennett, ”Trump’s ‘worldwide network’ is a great idea. But it already exists.,” for “glaring inaccuracies,” “misleading claims” and…
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BBG Watch Commentary Internal memos from the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) show that one of its tax-funded media entities, the Voice of America (VOA), is trying to arrange for VOA’s pro bono contributor media personality Greta Van…
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BBG Watch Commentary, As reported by U.S. and world media, President Trump raised in a tweet the possibility of starting “our own Worldwide Network” to counter news spread internationally by CNN. ….and false way. Something has to be done, including…
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BBG Watch Commentary U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA) under holdover Obama administration director Amanda Bennett appears to continue its selective censorship of Chinese billionaire businessman Guo Wengui and threatens with firing VOA Mandarin Service journalists who had resisted her…
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BBG Watch Media Report and Commentary A local American newspaper has posted a profile of radio and television broadcaster Blanquita Walsh Cullum who had served as one of the presidentially-appointed and Senate-confirmed members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)….
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BBG Watch Commentary An act of interference with domestic press by Federal U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), formerly called Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), is still keeping a watchdog website domain names, USAGMWatch.com and USAGMWatch.org, unavailable for use by…
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BBG Watch Commentary According to Iranian-American Mahtab Farid, neither the U.S. tax-funded and Federally-managed Voice of America (VOA) nor Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Radio Farda, both of them overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM),…
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BBG Watch Commentary No Mention on Tax-funded VOA News Website of Possible Blexit Plenty of One-Sided Left-Wing Propaganda from Voice of America Photo of Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett holding an USAGM umbrella (United States…
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BBG Watch Commentary United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Obama Administration holdover CEO John F. Lansing took no effective counter-measures despite being repeatedly warned since 2015 about egregious violations of journalistic standards, extreme partisanship shown by some Federal and…
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BBG Watch Guest Commentary This article is reposted from the Cold War Radio Museum – coldwarradiomuseum.com – website. Cold War Lessons for Voice of America in China Cold War Radio Museum During the Cold War, it would…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has been warning about similar potential problems of foreign influence in other Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) services under the lax and dysfunctional management by the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
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