Read More 6 minute read HISTORY First Voice of America Director of Halloween Fake Radio News FameOctober 31, 2020 USAGM Watch Halloween Commentary By Ted Lipien Happy Halloween! But don’t be fooled by fake radio news. Orson…
Read More 4 minute read MINISCULE, They Are Not: Violations of the VOA CharterOctober 29, 2020 MINISCULE A commentary BBG-USAGM Watch publishes this brief commentary by a contributor, in response to a recent email…
Read More 7 minute read VOA Reporter Apologizes for Halloween Tweet That Sparked Wave of Anti-Trump CommentsOctober 27, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Tweet Taken Down: “I Screwed Up” VOA’s White House bureau chief, Steve Herman, posted what…
Read More 18 minute read HISTORY Refugee Voice of America Journalists Stood Up to the Anti-Reagan VOA Newsroom and Won the Cold WarOctober 26, 2020 By Ted Lipien “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” ― L.P. Hartley, The…
Read More 5 minute read Obama-Biden White House Used Voice of America for Political Publicity with No Protests from VOA, Liberal Media or CongressOctober 21, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary There were no protests from the Voice of America (VOA) English central newsroom reporters, liberal…
Read More 7 minute read Let The Hypocrisy Continue at USAGM and VOAOctober 19, 2020 OPINION by The Federalist US International Broadcasting Voice of America U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) U.S. Agency…
Read More 10 minute read Voice of America Needed Prodding to Report on Hunter Biden New York Post StoryOctober 17, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary It took prodding from outside journalists to get Voice of America (VOA) central English newsroom…
Read More 19 minute read Edward R. Murrow Would Not Have Approved of Partisan or Chinese Communist Propaganda at Voice of AmericaOctober 11, 2020 OPINION by Ted Lipien Voice of America (VOA) directors and some of its current and former editors and…
Read More 7 minute read Plaintiff In Press Freedom Lawsuit Fired Voice of America JournalistsOctober 11, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary In her October 9, 2020 report, “Lawsuit Calls for Immediate Relief from USAGM CEO’s Actions,”…
Read More 2 minute read Dangerously naive VOA journalists make fools of themselvesOctober 8, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Ted Lipien, former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director (2006), who during his 34-year…
Read More 6 minute read A “Martyr” for Free Press Who Blocked Journalists Exposing His MistakesOctober 6, 2020 OPINION By The Federalist In the latest U.S Agency for Global Media (USAGM) dust up, the VOA White…
Read More 4 minute read Outgoing HFAC Chair Eliot Engel Calls for Firing of USAGM CEO Michael PackOctober 6, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), outgoing Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, called…
Read More 2 minute read Voice of America Reporter in NPR Story Blocked Watchdog Website Journalists in 2017October 5, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary National Public Radio (NPR) reported on October 4, 2020 that two political appointees at the…
Read More 9 minute read Foreign Influence and Conflicts of Interest at Voice of America: Case of the Albanian Ambassador EXCLUSIVEOctober 5, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary While Russia, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and several other countries are definitely spying on…