U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Guest Commentary This is part one of a multipart commentary on the newly named United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), formerly known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). The author is a former Voice of…
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BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has obtained screenshots showing that Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a U.S. taxpayer-funded institution managed by the ailing Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) agency, not only targeted Americans with Facebook ads in violation…
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OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn SOLZHENITSYN Target of KGB Propaganda and Censorship by Voice of America By Ted Lipien This research article written for Cold War Radio Museum…
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BBG Watch Commentary If the Trump White House nominates someone to head the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the individual, if confirmed by the U.S. Senate, will inherit a highly dysfunctional federal agency which allows hate speech comments on the…
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BBG Watch History Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981, died on May 26, 2017 at age 89. One of the major American planners of the Cold War victory over the Soviet Union, Zbigniew…
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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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OPINION The Russians Are Coming! US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist The warning may be a bit too late. They’re here. They are seemingly everywhere. On January 5, 2017 Director of National Intelligence…
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BBG Watch History When Voice of America and Radio Free Europe were praised in Congress By Ted Lipien In 1954, during the Cold War, the Voice of America (VOA), then under the management of the newly-formed United States…
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OPINION BBG Governor Confirms Inadequacy of U.S. BBG Media in Countering Putin Propaganda By Ted Lipien Republican member of the bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Russia expert Dr. Leon Aron, has confirmed the inadequacy of U.S. BBG…
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BBG Watch BBG Watch has learned that a proposed privatization of the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) is widely opposed by Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal employees, their union, the independent Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB –…
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BBG Watch History Documents & Quotes Series BBG Watch begins today publishing historical documents, some of them recently declassified, which relate to U.S. international broadcasting and public diplomacy. We will not be posting them in a chronological order….
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Smart Soft Power Diversified Diversified Outreach of U.S. Media and Public Diplomacy During the Cold War – American Diplomats and Broadcasters Discuss Impact of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe in Poland By Ted Lipien …
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BBG Watch The decline of both U.S. international broadcasting and U.S. public diplomacy as a result of the creation of the Broadcasting Board of Governors and consolidation of the United States Information Agency (USIA) into the State Department was predicted…
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BBG Watch History McKinney Russell (1929-2016). Family courtesy photo. McKinney Russell (1929-2016) – diplomat, Radio Liberty reporter, Voice of America manager By Ted Lipien Men and women of extraordinary abilities helped the United States win the Cold…
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BBG Watch Guest Commentary Good CEO, some good ideas, bad overall strategy By Ted Lipien John Lansing, new CEO and Director of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), has outlined his vision for the agency in a BBG…
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BBG Watch Commentary House Foreign Affairs Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) continues to argue for splitting different elements of U.S. international outreach into more specialized and more manageable units which would be run by strong CEOs and overseen by engaged…
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