Read More 5 minute read Silencing Steve BannonFebruary 27, 2019 GUEST BBG – USAGM WATCH COMMENTARY Silencing Steve Bannon By Sasha Gong It is hard…
Read More 8 minute read It’s Alive! The USAGM DystopiaFebruary 27, 2019 OPINION It’s Alive! The U-SAG-M Dystopia By The Federalist “Dystopia” has a broad range of definition. In part,…
Read More 5 minute read USAGM and Voice of America: The Case of the Disappeared — and Delayed — Steve Bannon InterviewFebruary 27, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary According to sources in the Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service and friends…
Read More 10 minute read USAGM CEO John Lansing’s right-hand man, Dr. Haroon Ullah, strangely missing lately from his sideFebruary 25, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary UPDATE BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The U.S. Department of Justice announced in…
Voice of America ignores ‘The Donald’ pro-Trump art exhibition in AlbaniaFebruary 23, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has ignored “The Donald” pro-President…
Read More 2 minute read Voice of America afraid to correct its false newsFebruary 20, 2019 USAGM Watch Commentary On January 31, 2019, the lead paragraph in a news report issued to the whole…
Read More 6 minute read Did Voice of America federal reporter threaten Americans to silence pro-Trump free speech?February 20, 2019 USAGM Watch Commentary On a Twitter account showing news from the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), a…
Read More 3 minute read Voice of America US gov’t employee-reporter called for Covington students to be outedFebruary 6, 2019 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded (Annual budget: $234.7 million; Employees: 1,078) Voice of America (VOA), managed by the…
Read More 6 minute read RFE/RL claims Iran clergy “remains firmly in place” as criticism of Radio Farda, VOA and USAGM goes viralFebruary 1, 2019 BBG Watch Commentary In a new video from U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which is managed…
Read More 11 minute read Ed Royce on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook AdsJanuary 30, 2019 OPINION Issues in the News: Royce Report on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads U.S. International Media:…
Read More 7 minute read Did VOA’s ‘Report: Trump Told Attorney Cohen to Lie to Congress’ comply with VOA Charter and Journalistic Code?January 24, 2019 BBG Watch Commentary Question Did the Voice of America (VOA) under the directorship of Pulitzer-winning journalist Amanda Bennett,…
Read More 2 minute read HISTORY ‘Music Time in Africa’ on VOA in 1982 with Leo Sarkisian and Rita RochelleJanuary 22, 2019 BBG Watch History Cold War Radio Museum The Voice of America (VOA) May-October 1982 English-to-Africa Service Program Schedule…
Read More 2 minute read Trump Sticks With Pack for Broadcasting Chief, WFB reportedJanuary 18, 2019 BBG Watch Media As reported by Susan Crabtree in the Washington Free Beacon, “President Trump has re-nominated documentary…
Read More 5 minute read Intriguing VOA tweet about snow, Trump, media, and pilots of U.S. Marine One helicopterJanuary 16, 2019 Comedy We have put this one under our new BBG – USAGM Watch Comedy category. We were quite…
Read More 45 minute read HISTORY 1953 CIA Source: People Died in Czechoslovakia Because of Pro-Communist Propaganda from Voice of AmericaJanuary 3, 2019 OPINION AND ANALYSIS Cold War Radio Museum 1953 CIA Source: People Died in Czechoslovakia Because of Pro-Communist…
Read More 1 minute read Happy New Year from BBG Watch – USAGM Watch – Thank You for Over 14 Million HitsJanuary 1, 2019 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch wishes Happy New Year – 2019 to all of our readers and contributors.…
Read More 4 minute read Iranians curse USAGM’s RFE/RL Radio Farda for repeating regime propagandaDecember 31, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Iranians are enraged by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Radio Farda, as well as in…
Read More 10 minute read USAGM Is Federal Bureaucracy’s FantasylandDecember 26, 2018 OPINION U-SAG-M — Federal Bureaucracy’s Fantasyland Information War Lost: Diversionary Tactics By The Federalist In…
Read More 3 minute read USAGM CEO Lansing blasts critics who exposed his agency’s illegal Facebook ads targeting AmericansDecember 25, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary In a letter to the Editor of The Los Angeles Times, CEO of the U.S.…
Read More 18 minute read OPINION VOA Problems: Racism, Xenophobia, Mediocrity, and NepotismDecember 25, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett has made various charges against VOA Mandarin Service…
Read More 5 minute read WFB: House Foreign Affairs Committee uncovered new spate of management failures at USAGM and VOADecember 22, 2018 BBG Watch Media Commentary A new report by Susan Crabtree in The Washington Free Beacon provides additional details…
Read More 5 minute read Voice of America Persian Service targeted Americans with illegal Facebook adsDecember 22, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
Read More 3 minute read Congress exposes repeated violations of Smith-Mundt Act in USAGM agency’s Facebook ads targeting AmericansDecember 21, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
Read More 6 minute read USAGM CEO John Lansing ignored early warnings of ads targeting AmericansDecember 21, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO John Lansing, who had been appointed in 2015 during…
Read More 2 minute read Unknown history of Russia’s propaganda efforts targeting AmericansDecember 18, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Recent media reports about Russian propaganda efforts to target African Americans expose a practice of…
Read More 1 minute read Senators block attempt to entrench bureaucrats at Voice of America and USAGMDecember 18, 2018 BBG Watch Media Commentary A group of conservative senators has blocked a bill which would allow holdover bureacrats…
Read More 6 minute read New York Times missed evidence of existing Voice of America bias under Amanda Bennett and John LansingDecember 13, 2018 BBG Watch Media Commentary While noting some of the management scandals at the Voice of America (VOA) and…
Read More 3 minute read Laogai survivors worry about their museum and Voice of AmericaDecember 11, 2018 BBG Watch Guest Commentary On the day when the world commemorates 70 years since the adoption of the…
Read More 5 minute read Lyudmila Alekseyeva defended Radio Liberty Russian journalists fired by RFE/RL bossesDecember 9, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Lyudmila Alekseyeva (alternative spelling: Alexeyeva, Alexeeva), a veteran defender of human rights and a prominent…
Support from George H.W. Bush convinced Lech Walesa ‘there was a real chance to get rid of communism’December 6, 2018 Cold War Radio Museum Former Polish President Lech Wałęsa said last year that in 1987 the then…
Read More 8 minute read HISTORY | President Eisenhower condemned biased Voice of America officials and reportersDecember 5, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Cold War Radio Museum Voice of America Then and Now Historically, partisanship at the…
Sen. Warner to Propose National Cybersecurity DoctrineDecember 5, 2018 Sen. Warner to Propose National Cybersecurity Doctrine| Mutlichannel NEWS “Expand American influence abroad to extend the key…
Read More 2 minute read Dan Robinson comments on NPR report about VOADecember 5, 2018 Voice Of America Vows Independence, As Trump Calls For ‘Worldwide Network’ Dan Robinson comments on NPR report…
Read More 2 minute read WFB: “Corker, Menendez Push Effort to ‘Neuter’ Trump’s Broadcasting Chief”December 2, 2018 BBG Watch Media Commentary Washington Free Beacon senior writer Susan Crabtree who has been reporting on U.S government…
Read More 11 minute read Vice President George H.W. Bush interviewed for Voice of America by Ted Lipien and Wayne Corey in 1987December 1, 2018 Reposted from Cold War Radio Museum Cold War Radio Museum Voice of America (VOA) Polish Service director…
Read More 7 minute read Fantasy Land at USAGM and VOANovember 29, 2018 OPINION U-SAG-M Fantasyland Special 2018 Holiday Edition US Government International Media? By The Federalist …
Read More 12 minute read Management confirms decision to fire VOA Mandarin chief Sasha Gong over Guo WenguiNovember 29, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Senior management of the Voice of America (VOA) and its parent agency, the United States…
Read More 6 minute read Amanda Bennett WP op-ed is a “biased and fake opinion piece,” Iranian-born American journalist saidNovember 29, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Journalists formerly linked with the Voice of America (VOA) have criticized a Washington Post op-ed…
Read More 5 minute read They called him “a joke” and streamed a sex joke about his wife, will Trump grant Voice of America an interview?November 27, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Internal memos from the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) show that one of…
Read More 9 minute read Did Trump forget Voice of America or rejected it as far to the left of CNN?November 27, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary, As reported by U.S. and world media, President Trump raised in a tweet the possibility…
Iranian-American: VOA Persian overlooked CA firesNovember 16, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary An Iranian-American journalist observed on Facebook that the Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service was…
Read More 2 minute read Tuning in to BQ Cullum — the Voice of AmericaNovember 13, 2018 BBG Watch Media Report and Commentary A local American newspaper has posted a profile of radio and television…
Read More 4 minute read How VOA explained not sending reporters to Pompeo press conference on Iran sanctionsNovember 12, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) and its parent federal agency, United States Agency for Global…
Read More 1 minute read Federal USAGM Interference Blocks Watchdog Website NameNovember 9, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary An act of interference with domestic press by Federal U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM),…
Read More 10 minute read USAGM outlets VOA and RFE/RL Radio Farda absent at Pompeo news conference on Iran sanctionsNovember 6, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary According to Iranian-American Mahtab Farid, neither the U.S. tax-funded and Federally-managed Voice of America (VOA)…
Read More 7 minute read No Mention on Tax-funded VOA News Website of Possible BlexitNovember 5, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary No Mention on Tax-funded VOA News Website of Possible Blexit Plenty of One-Sided Left-Wing…
Read More 2 minute read Who leaked an embarrassing video for RFE/RL – Voice of America Russian TV?November 2, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary A leaked rehearsal video for the Russian-language Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)-Voice of…
Read More 2 minute read One of VOA Mandarin Five Journalists Remembers Champion of Freedom Marie CilibertiOctober 31, 2018 BBG Watch Guest Commentary By Huchen Zhang Valentine’s Day (February 14), 2011 was the darkest day in the…
Read More 11 minute read USAGM Holdover CEO Was Warned in 2017 About Anti-Semitism in His Agency’s ProgramsOctober 31, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Obama Administration holdover CEO John F. Lansing took…
Read More 6 minute read Marie CilibertiOctober 23, 2018 BBG Watch A Tribute to Marie Ciliberti By Ted Lipien I am sad to report that former Voice…