U.S. and International Media
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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USAGM Watch Commentary On a Twitter account showing news from the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), a federal government employee who is a veteran Central English Newsroom VOA reporter posted a “@VOA” tweet which said in part in reference…
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BBG Watch Commentary Question Did the Voice of America (VOA) under the directorship of Pulitzer-winning journalist Amanda Bennett, an Obama administration holdover appointee, comply with the VOA Charter and VOA Journalistic Code in how VOA News first reported on BuzzFeed…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a letter to the Editor of The Los Angeles Times, CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) John F. Lansing, who was appointed to his position in 2015 during the Obama administration, has blasted…
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BBG Watch Commentary This one-sided political and partisan propaganda video was produced with Russian subtitles for “Current Time” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and Voice of America (VOA) Russian TV and online platform paid for by U.S….
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BBG Watch Media Commentary A new report by Susan Crabtree in The Washington Free Beacon provides additional details on the investigation by the House Foreign Affairs Committee which uncovered new spate of management failures at the United States Agency for…
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BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and his committee staff found that insufficient management and devolved operating structures for digital advertising at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and…
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BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and his committee staff found that insufficient management and devolved operating structures for digital advertising at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and…
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BBG Watch Commentary U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO John Lansing, who had been appointed in 2015 during the Obama administration, had ignored early warnings of taxpayer-funded USAGM media entities such as the Voice of America (VOA) targeting Americans in…
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BBG Watch Commentary U.S. government-run and U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has ignored the Claas Relotius journalistic scandal. Since Der Spiegel reporter Claas Relotius who was fired by the German news magazine for “grand scale” lies has published multiple…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary According to a report of the Working Group on Chinese Influence Activities in the United States prepared by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Center on US-China Relations at Asia Society in New York,…
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BBG Watch Media Commentary While noting some of the management scandals at the Voice of America (VOA) and its parent federal agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), under the current leadership of VOA Director Amanda Bennett and USAGM…
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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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