U.S. and International Media
BBG Watch Commentary Sheema Kalbasi, who tweets as @IranianWoman, is a U.S.-based Iranian poet, filmmaker, rights activist who had worked for UNHCR and Center for Refugees in Pakistan and UNA Denmark. She is one of many pro-democracy Iranians banned in…
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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 Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown Mode on Iran: 4.0 US Government International Media By The Federalist Iran Recent demonstrations in Iran in support of “regime change,” a phrase unofficially but effectively banned for…
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OPINION BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch commented early on Monday that U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) confirmed its longstanding reputation for being what Iranian and American critics often refer to as “The Voice of the Mullahs” or “VOM,” by…
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BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) confirmed its longstanding reputation for being what Iranian and American critics often refer to as “The Voice of the Mullahs” or “VOM,” by posting on on Sunday, January 7 a Soviet…
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BBG Watch Commentary “Led by a stable of Obama appointees, the Voice of America and the Persian language service at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Radio Farda) are being used to support the Iranian regime and denigrate the leadership of President…
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BBG Watch Commentary Kenneth R. Timmerman, an investigative journalist, Republican political activist, president of Foundation for Democracy in Iran and former member of the foreign policy and national security advisory board of Trump for President, has a new article in…
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BBG Watch Commentary In a stunning display of chaos, mismanagement and lack of oversight, key management units within the federal Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) have for several years followed and legitimized a Twitter account allegedly belonging to the director…
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BBG Watch Media In a Washington Times op-ed published November 21, 2016, New York Times best-selling author, political commentator, investigative reporter and Republican Party activist Kenneth R. Timmerman accused U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe /…
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BBG Watch Commentary According to Voice of America Director Ms.Amanda Bennett’s figures, less than 0.0001% Mandarin speakers, 0.0004% English speakers, 0.002% Spanish speakers, 0.006% Russian speakers, and 0.03% Persian speakers watched VOA’s live online streaming of Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump’s speech last week at the Republican National Convention…
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BBG Watch Just Asking After Sohrab Ahmari, an editorial page writer for the Wall Street Journal Europe published a commentary on how U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), in violation of its VOA Charter generates some news and information which lack balance…
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BBG Watch Media Sohrab Ahmari, an editorial page writer for the Wall Street Journal Europe, based in London, has a commentary on how U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), in violation of its VOA Charter generates some news and information…
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BBG Watch Commentary Seven and a half hours after a Voice of America (VOA) interview with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (both text and video) was posted today, July 21, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. EDT, on the VOA English…
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BBG Watch Media It is unlikely in the extreme that Voice of America (VOA) director David Ensor (who will soon leave his post), his principal deputy, VOA Executive Editor Steve Redisch, and other senior VOA editors and executives would not…
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BBG Watch Media “When it comes to a few important journalistic new media skills, such as speed of posting information online and use of social media, U.S. State Department’s public diplomacy is leagues ahead of U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America…
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BBG Watch Media Voice of America Persian slide into irrelevance on social media While most people would expect that on such a big story as the U.S. – Iran nuclear deal framework, Facebook followers would flock to…
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