U.S. and International Media
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 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 In mid-April 1943, the Voice of America (VOA), which was then known as the Overseas Branch of the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI), started to spread Soviet propaganda lies about the Katyn Forest massacre of thousands…
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Introduction With today’s 75th anniversary of the signing of the presidential executive order to imprison Japanese Americans during World War II, when it comes to understanding who really initiates and creates government propaganda in the United States sometimes a little…
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BBG Watch Media A journalist working as a U.S. government employee for the taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has been posting anti-Donald Trump memes on her personal but publicly accessible Facebook page. One was a GIF with a Nazi swastika…
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BBG Watch Commentary This week marked the 75th anniversary of the Welles Declaration, one of the most powerful and enduring U.S. public diplomacy documents of the 20th century. Issued on July 23, 1940 by Sumner Welles, the United States’ acting…
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BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that the Federal Labor Relations Authority Law Judge slammed the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) in very sharp language for violating the law and “using illegal means” by failing to comply with a…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a politically unwise press release, which according to critics at best violates the spirit of U.S. law, Voice of America (VOA) executives are bragging about making VOA programming available in the U.S. by mobile phone. BBG…
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BBG Watch Commentary The Post and Courier, the main daily newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, has called for restoring the Smith-Mundt government propaganda ban on domestic distribution of U.S. international broadcasting programs such as those produced by the Voice of…
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BBG Watch Commentary While BBG Watch would like to believe Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) assurances that it will not propagandize Americans and will not divert resources from international outreach to domestic outreach with the passage of the Smith-Mundt Modernization…
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Even More Words and Their Stories and Some Numbers, Too – Information War Lost – The Standard for Dysfunction and Defunct in the Federal Government – International Broadcasting Bureau by The Federalist [Implosion: a bursting inward] This is where…
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BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) board meeting, held last week at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Prague, Czech Republic, some board members and senior staffers tried to limit public access to information about…
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