Ranking Member Menendez Statement on Michael Pack
STATEMENT BY SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ (D-NJ) Ranking Member Menendez Statement on Michael Pack May 14, 2020 WASHINGTON – U.S.…
Former U.S. Senator Tom Coburn Who Called BBG ‘Most Worthless’ Dead At 72
Tom Coburn, former Republican U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Oklahoma and a medical doctor who in a…
Trump Re-Nominates Michael Pack to be CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), formerly BBG
BBG – USAGM Watch According to a White House announcement on February 25, 2020, President Trump has re-nominated…
1 to 7 Likes on Facebook Posts from 912K VOA Extremism Followers — Only at USG Tax-Funded Voice of America
BBG – USAGM – Watch Commentary In January 2018 former U.S. Agency for Global Media…
EXCLUSIVE Jeff Shell, former Democratic BBG Chair, resigned from USAGM Board of Governors
EXCLUSIVE BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary News BBG – USAGM Watch was able to confirm that Jeff Shell,…
HELLE DALE: Prospect of Reforming US Broadcasting Abroad
BBG – USAGM Watch Media Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, argues…
USAGM CEO nominee Michael Pack pledges to protect journalistic integrity
BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary Michael Pack, President Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Agency for Global…
Michael Pack USAGM Senate Hearing Scheduled for Sept. 19
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing for Michael Pack to be confirmed by the…
HISTORY Voice of America? – Why The Question Mark from Congress in 1948?
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary In 1948, Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate charged that Voice of…
CUSIB expresses concern to Senator Rubio over USAGM VOA China plans
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The independent and nonpartisan NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB.org) has appealed…
Update: Guilty Plea in USAGM Senior Official Corruption Case
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The U.S. Department of Justice announced in a June 27, 2019 press release…
Powerful pro-press freedom speech by Sen. Cruz ignored by Voice of America EXCLUSIVE
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA) has so far (as of 12:20 AM…
Former BBG Governor Blanquita Cullum interviews Sen. Cruz on Venezuela and illegal immigration
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary American radio host and former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Blanquita Cullum…
Former BBG Governor Cullum criticized VOA for Russian propaganda in Venezuela reporting
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary American radio host and former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Blanquita Cullum…
The USAGM Numbers Game
OPINION The USAGM Numbers Game Numbers of Convenience Without Consequence By The Federalist The audience numbers…
Pompeo calls for USAGM leadership change
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary In his appearance on March 27, 2019 before the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee…
HISTORY Rep. Howard H. Buffett, Warren Buffett’s father, feared domestic VOA propaganda
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Domestic Propaganda Cold War Radio Museum has posted on its…
White House FY2020 Budget Proposal Calls for Major Cuts in USAGM Spending
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The Trump administration’s proposed Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year…
Voice of America was days late in reporting on an anti-Semitic slur
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary UPDATE In yet another news reporting failure for the Voice of America, BBC,…
Voice of America silent on Eliot Engel, other US condemnations of ‘vile anti-Semitic slur’ by Rep. Omar
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA), which repeatedly broadcast one-sided attacks by…
Ed Royce on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads
OPINION Issues in the News: Royce Report on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads U.S. International Media:…
Trump Sticks With Pack for Broadcasting Chief, WFB reported
BBG Watch Media As reported by Susan Crabtree in the Washington Free Beacon, “President Trump has re-nominated documentary…
USAGM CEO Lansing blasts critics who exposed his agency’s illegal Facebook ads targeting Americans
BBG Watch Commentary In a letter to the Editor of The Los Angeles Times, CEO of the U.S.…
OPINION VOA Problems: Racism, Xenophobia, Mediocrity, and Nepotism
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett has made various charges against VOA Mandarin Service…
Voice of America Persian Service targeted Americans with illegal Facebook ads
BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
Voice of America Russian Service’s illegal targeting of Americans with Facebook ads exposed by Rep. Royce
BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
Congress exposes repeated violations of Smith-Mundt Act in USAGM agency’s Facebook ads targeting Americans
BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
USAGM CEO John Lansing ignored early warnings of ads targeting Americans
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO John Lansing, who had been appointed in 2015 during…
Senators block attempt to entrench bureaucrats at Voice of America and USAGM
BBG Watch Media Commentary A group of conservative senators has blocked a bill which would allow holdover bureacrats…
WFB: “Corker, Menendez Push Effort to ‘Neuter’ Trump’s Broadcasting Chief”
BBG Watch Media Commentary Washington Free Beacon senior writer Susan Crabtree who has been reporting on U.S government…
USAGM outlets VOA and RFE/RL Radio Farda absent at Pompeo news conference on Iran sanctions
BBG Watch Commentary According to Iranian-American Mahtab Farid, neither the U.S. tax-funded and Federally-managed Voice of America (VOA)…
One of VOA Mandarin Five Journalists Remembers Champion of Freedom Marie Ciliberti
BBG Watch Guest Commentary By Huchen Zhang Valentine’s Day (February 14), 2011 was the darkest day in the…
USAGM Holdover CEO Was Warned in 2017 About Anti-Semitism in His Agency’s Programs
BBG Watch Commentary United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Obama Administration holdover CEO John F. Lansing took…
Chinese audience upset by VOA giving a platform to Beijing’s propaganda think tank
BBG Watch Guest Commentary This report was submitted by a Voice of America (VOA) journalist who wants to…
Voice of America director needs to shelve her rhetoric on North Korea
OPINION North Korea Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost By The Federalist …
HISTORY How a refugee journalist exposed Voice of America censorship of the Katyn Massacre
BBG Watch History Commentary This Cold War History Museum presentation shows how officials in charge of the Voice…
Message for Speaker Ryan from Dissident RFE/RL Journalists
BBG Watch Commentary Dissident Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists want to tell House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI)…
A favorite Broadcasting Board of Governors manager of former BBG Democratic Chairman
BBG Watch Commentary André Mendes, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) manager in the center of a recent media…
Royce calls for new BBG CEO and VOA reform
BBG Watch Commentary Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ed Royce (R-CA) has called for new CEO…
Private emails may hamper any OIG investigation of Voice of America Guo Wengui incident
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has learned that at least until recently some Voice of America (VOA)…
Members of Congress request OIG investigation of VOA and BBG handling of Guo Wengui interview EXCLUSIVE
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Four members of the U.S. Congress who serve on committees in the U.S. Senate…
Radio Free Asia’s China Services Must Not Be Silenced
BBG Watch | PETITION In a JOINT APPEAL TO CONGRESS, dated June 24, 2017, Chinese democracy seekers,…
Suspended VOA Mandarin Editor Huchen Zhang on Guo Wengui Incident
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service journalist, senior editor Huchen Zhang, spoke today at the…
Secretary Tillerson Supportive of OIG Investigation into Voice of America China Controversy
BBG WATCH COMMENTARY In a rare comment from America’s top diplomat about increasing programming and management controversies at…
VOA Interview With Guo Wengui Cut Short
BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has cut short its interview with Chinese businessman…
Cheerful ignorance of facts about Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary The writer of this journalistically confused and one sided New Republic article about the Voice…
75th Anniversary of Voice of America – Propaganda Coordination with USSR
The World War II propaganda arm of the United States government, the Office of War Information (OWI), was…
Writer for Voice of America posts on social media on ‘American imperialism’ and Obama as ‘no friend’ of the Middle East and American people
BBG Watch Commentary A journalist who writes for the U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M FY2017) Voice of America (VOA) Persian…
Obama signs off on reducing status of Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary President Barack Obama has signed into law S. 2943, the “National Defense Authorization Act for…
Washington Post Enabling BBG Dysfunction With A Dysfunctional Message
Commentary Washington Post Enabling BBG Dysfunction With A Dysfunctional Message Broadcasting Board of Governors: Information War Lost By…