Read More 7 minute read ‘Beyond pathetic’ unique views for Voice of America, inside sources sayJanuary 20, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary A Voice of America (VOA) foreign and domestic correspondent of many years told BBG Watch…
Read More 7 minute read A Cup That Runneth OverJanuary 18, 2017 OPINION A Cup That Runneth Over USG International Broadcasting Information War Lost By The Federalist …
Read More 7 minute read 75th Anniversary of Voice of America – Propaganda Coordination with USSRJanuary 17, 2017 The World War II propaganda arm of the United States government, the Office of War Information (OWI), was…
Read More 3 minute read Writer for Voice of America posts on social media on ‘American imperialism’ and Obama as ‘no friend’ of the Middle East and American peopleJanuary 12, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary A journalist who writes for the U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M FY2017) Voice of America (VOA) Persian…
Read More 8 minute read The Russians Are Coming!January 9, 2017 OPINION The Russians Are Coming! US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist …
Read More 4 minute read Some Voice of America reporters broke new hate speech ground in 2016January 6, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary Unprecedented use of hate speech, use of an F-word, a vulgar and sexist sex joke…
Read More 2 minute read After sexist slurs against Mrs. Trump at Voice of America party, VOA posts a story on anti-Obama slurDecember 30, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary A comment was sent to us by one of our readers, a former VOA foreign…
Read More 9 minute read Let Hysteria Ring!December 27, 2016 OPINION Let Hysteria Ring! By The Federalist It’s been a bad year for the bulk…
Read More 4 minute read Meltdown-mode Voice of America fails on Carrie FisherDecember 27, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary “May The Force Be With You.” “The Force” is definitely not with U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M…
Read More 7 minute read Voice of America reporters demean Ivanka Trump, fail to report on plane harassment incidentDecember 26, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary A few days ago, Voice of America (VOA) newsroom reporters, editors and managers, who are…
Read More 10 minute read Obama signs off on reducing status of Broadcasting Board of GovernorsDecember 23, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary President Barack Obama has signed into law S. 2943, the “National Defense Authorization Act for…
Read More 5 minute read Voice of America story romanticizes a terrorist, experienced VOA reporters complainDecember 23, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Some of the most experienced Voice of America (VOA) journalists are complaining that many of…
Read More 1 minute read BBG dead last among mid-size federal agencies in Best Places to Work 2016 RankingsDecember 21, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and the Voice of America (VOA), BBG’s largest federal…
Read More 4 minute read Helle Dale in WT: Baseless angst over reforming Voice of AmericaDecember 20, 2016 BBG Watch Media Helle Dale, the senior fellow for public diplomacy in The Heritage Foundation, noted in her…
Read More 10 minute read Voice of America Civil Service Employees Satire Trump, Future First LadyDecember 17, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary VOA Civil Service Employees Satire Trump, Future First Lady, Bill Clinton And the No. 1…
1981 Poland shortly before and after martial law in Voice of America programsDecember 13, 2016 BBG Watch History 35 years ago, on December 13, 1981, the Polish communist regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski…
Read More 2 minute read BBG journalists posting Trump swastika memes afraid VOA might become politicized under his presidencyDecember 12, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Some Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) U.S. government employees who have have posted obscene memes…
Read More 6 minute read ‘The Persian News nightmare’ on Voice of AmericaDecember 12, 2016 BBG Watch Media Report/Commentary In a new Washington Times op-ed published December 11, 2016, New York Times best-selling…
Read More 8 minute read Voice of America hit pieces on Trump nominees continue, now with tabloid headlinesDecember 12, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) continues to post what can only…
Read More 2 minute read SPUTNIK and RT take Voice of America for a ride in a “Russian Cat Tank”December 11, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary There is probably nothing more satisfying to the Kremlin propagandists in charge of Russia’s SPUTNIK…
Read More 9 minute read Washington Post Enabling BBG Dysfunction With A Dysfunctional MessageDecember 10, 2016 Commentary Washington Post Enabling BBG Dysfunction With A Dysfunctional Message Broadcasting Board of Governors: Information War Lost By…
Read More 4 minute read WP defends defunct BBG Board, fails to mention VOA chiefs’ former links to the paperDecember 10, 2016 BBG Watch Media Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees have been rating their agency in Office of Personnel…
Read More 8 minute read Voice of America failed to report Ben Rhodes represented Obama at Castro funeralDecember 8, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Practically defunct (Hillary Clinton’s words), U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) failed…
Read More 5 minute read Biased Voice of America reports whip up anti-U.S. hysteria: Wole Soyinka storyDecember 5, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Photo of Wole Soyinka by Chidi Anthony Opara [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons. On…
Read More 11 minute read Voice of America whips up anti-Trump hysteria with one-sided reportingDecember 5, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary “The lawyer representing the family of Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the man who wounded 11…
Read More 11 minute read DAN ROBINSON: At the BBG — A World of Alternate UniversesDecember 5, 2016 Commentary This is a guest commentary for BBG Watch written by former senior Voice of America White House…
Read More 6 minute read Dysfunctional U.S. agency gets its chief’s name, title wrong in a press releaseDecember 5, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Who is “BBG Chairman Joh Lansing”?, as a recent Broadcasting Board of Governors press release…
Read More 4 minute read HFAC Chair Ed Royce welcomes elimination of BBG boardDecember 2, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) welcomed the House passage of the National Defense…
Read More 2 minute read BBG chiefs heap praise on executives of a failed agencyDecember 1, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary In the end, the Obama White House pulled the plug on Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Read More 6 minute read Defunct BBG Board to bite the dustDecember 1, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary In the end even the Obama White House had enough of the “practically defunct“ (Hillary…
Read More 7 minute read Voice of America reporters horrified by decline of VOA journalistic standardsNovember 30, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary A former Voice of America (VOA) correspondent who during his long career with taxpayer-funded VOA…
Read More 8 minute read Who Knew?November 29, 2016 Commentary Who Knew? Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost By The Federalist Some thoughts about the 2016…
Read More 3 minute read BBG CEO John Lansing’s digital tout and Voice of America cat videoNovember 29, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) ($777 million in FY 2017) CEO and Director John F.…
Read More 1 minute read No Change of Leadership at Broadcasting Board of Governors, CEO John Lansing assures employeesNovember 29, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) ($777 million in FY 2017) CEO and Director John F.…
Read More 2 minute read Washington Times op-ed: Voice of America airs “pro-Iranian regime propaganda” and “wild fantasy-land libel” against TrumpNovember 27, 2016 BBG Watch Media In a Washington Times op-ed published November 21, 2016, New York Times best-selling author, political…
Read More 3 minute read Voice of America awakens to Castro’s death after humiliation on FacebookNovember 26, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary After experiencing yet another humiliation on Facebook with absolutely dismal social engagement numbers for its…
Read More 1 minute read Voice of America VOA English News about 10 hours late in posting to Facebook on Castro’s deathNovember 26, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America’s VOA English News was about ten (10) hours behind Russia’s RT,…
Read More 2 minute read VOA, RT, BBC Facebook Castro posts compared: VOA 379; RT 11K; BBC 56K LikesNovember 26, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America’s (VOA) declining relevance as an international media outlet was once again illustrated…
Read More 3 minute read Many Voice of America services late on Castro’s death, Trump calling him “brutal dictator,” VOA journalists complainNovember 26, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Journalists working for U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) are complaining that because of poor…
Read More 8 minute read Tax-funded Voice of America accuses Breitbart News of anti-Semitism, racism, ‘anti-women views’November 26, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M in FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA), which never uses negative labels…
Read More 4 minute read Tax-funded Voice of America showed more anti-Trump bias than NYTNovember 22, 2016 Voice of America (VOA) Was More Biased And More Vicious Against Trump At U.S. Taxpayers’ Expense Than The…
Read More 4 minute read MORE SUPERVISORS FOR TOP HEAVY VOICE OF AMERICA AND BLOATED BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORSNovember 21, 2016 Commentary Read the comment, “Top heavy getting much heavier,” reposted below from one of BBG Watch readers in…
Read More 2 minute read Former Voice of America senior journalist exposes cronyism, low morale, bogus audience claimsNovember 21, 2016 BBG Watch Media Former senior White House correspondent for the taxpayer-funded ($224M in FY 2017) Voice of America…
Read More 7 minute read Voice of America and Broadcasting Board of Governors chiefs allow biased reportingNovember 21, 2016 Commentary Voice of America and Broadcasting Board of Governors need immediate attention and reform By Ted Lipien…
Read More 5 minute read Material weaknesses and significant deficiencies continue under BBG CEO John LansingNovember 18, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Independent Auditor’s Report on the Broadcasting Board of Governors 2016 and 2015 Financial Statements, ordered…
Read More 8 minute read Pre-Trump bureaucratic hiring frenzy by BBG and VOA chiefs who may soon leaveNovember 17, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary As if the “practically defunct” (Hillary Clinton’s words in 2013) Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Read More 14 minute read Voice of America should stick to journalism, stop one-sided name-calling in reports on Donald TrumpNovember 15, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M in FY2017) Voice of America (VOA) should by all means continue to…
Read More 7 minute read Voice of America, RFE/RL ignore White House statement on genocide in UkraineNovember 14, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Hillary Clinton when she was U.S. Secretary of State called the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Read More 4 minute read Voice of America still has not posted a profile of Melania Trump, others didNovember 11, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Under the leadership of Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO and director John F. Lansing,…
Read More 10 minute read Trump wasn’t the only vilified candidate on tax-funded Voice of AmericaNovember 10, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. President-elect Donald Trump was not the only presidential candidate vilified with hit pieces and…