U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett has two scheduled public appearances in Washington, DC this week. They should be interesting in light of her recent statements and what the organization she leads has done for the…
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OPINION BBG Watch Guest Commentary History’s Mysteries: Those Who Listen in the Dark (解密时刻：偷听“敌台” 美国之音 英文字幕版) 32,323 views as of April 19, 2018 魏京生：“那个时候开始，悄悄地在家里头，收音机打开慢慢找找找，找着了。”Starting at that time, at home in secret, I would turn on the radio and slowly turn…
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BBG Watch Commentary Young journalists, most of them women, from countries without free media are criticizing senior management of U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and its managing U.S. federal agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),…
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BBG Watch History Commentary This Cold War History Museum presentation shows how officials in charge of the Voice of America (VOA) in the early 1950s responded to former employees, members of Congress, and other outside critics who quite justifiably accused…
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BBG Watch Commentary Remarks to the Chinese American staff made this week by Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett, who — according to numerous reports — had ordered the shortening of the April 19, 2017 VOA interview with Chinese…
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BBG Watch Commentary The independent and nonpartisan NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) has a press release on the need for a congressional investigation of Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Voice of America (VOA) upper management…
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OPINION BBG Comedy Club Part Two: The Road Show US International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist In our first installment in this series, we dealt with a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
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OPINION Just The Facts?!? US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) got a lot of press on what amounts to fake news: an alleged two-person “coup” attempt…
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BBG Watch Media “Why do people in Iran call the U.S. Voice of America (VOA) the ‘Voice of Ayatollahs’?,” asks Ziva Dahl, a Senior Fellow at Haym Salomon Center, in her op-ed in The Daily Caller. “Tragically, rather than promote…
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BBG Watch Commentary On March 14, 2018, Tom Kent, President of U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), explained to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in charge of RFE/RL, how Radio Liberty Russian Service in cooperation with…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a tweet with 9:11 PM – 15 Mar 2018 time stamp, Steve Herman, White House Bureau Chief for U.S. taxpayer-funded and U.S. government-managed Voice of America (VOA), which has a legal Charter mandating reporting only accurate…
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BBG Watch Commentary Ann Noonan, Executive Director of the independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) spoke at the open board meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) held in Washington, DC on March 14, 2018….
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BBG Watch Commentary According to the announcement posted on the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) website, the Broadcasting Board of Governors will meet on March 14, at 1:00 pm at its Washington, D.C., headquarters to review programming to Russia, China…
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BBG Watch Commentary The surprise announcement that President Trump is planing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un brings once again into focus some of the questionable journalism by the Voice of America (VOA) in which information about North Korea…
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BBG Watch Commentary A group of Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service journalists has prepared a memorandum in which they decry what the employees see as a loss of VOA’s objectivity and mismanagement of human and capital resources by the…
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OPINION Messaging US Government International Media: Information War Lost By The Federalist A recent BBG Watch report noted a February 27, 2018 post to Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett’s Facebook page which read: “As the Trump Administration escalates…
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