Read More 4 minute read My Question for Voice of AmericaNovember 6, 2020 OPINION By Ted Lipien I don’t engage in U.S. partisan politics and do not support one U.S. presidential…
Read More 4 minute read Will Voice of America Campaign Video Help Biden Win Michigan?November 2, 2020 USAGM Commentary This BBGWatch.com (USAGM – BBG Watch) video is about the Voice of America (VOA) Urdu Service one-sided social media presentation…
Read More 2 minute read Voice of America Newsroom Was Certain on Election Night 2016 Hillary Clinton Would WinNovember 2, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary The day before U.S. Election Day this year, the heads of the tax-funded Voice of…
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 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 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 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 USAGM CEO Blames Former Agency and Voice of America Heads for Massive Security BreachesSeptember 11, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Michael Pack, Trump-appointed CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), was interviewed by…
Read More 10 minute read Domestic Propaganda By Voice of America Can Skew Election ResultsSeptember 6, 2020 OPINION By The Federalist Partisan domestic propaganda by the federally-funded and government-managed Voice of America (VOA) can skew…
Read More 3 minute read USAGM CEO Promises Journalistic Freedom Under Voice of America CharterAugust 28, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Michael Pack, CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, joined The Federalist Radio Hour…
Read More 3 minute read Voice of America Takes Down, Edits, Video With Pro-Biden ContentAugust 13, 2020 OPINION By Dan Robinson The Voice of America on Thursday took down and later reposted an edited version…
Read More 4 minute read Voice Of America Managers Did Not Correct Pro-Biden ErrorsAugust 12, 2020 OPINION By Dan Robinson [EDITOR’S NOTE: As this story was going to press, The New York Post and…
Read More 5 minute read Voice of America Forgets Legacy of Its Anti-Communist Refugee JournalistsAugust 9, 2020 USAGM – BBG Watch OPINION By Ted Lipien I am one of the many former Voice of America…
Read More 1 minute read Heritage scholar exposes VOA’s biased newsAugust 7, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, said in an article…
Read More 2 minute read Voice of America acting director condemns biased VOA election coverageAugust 7, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Acting Voice of America (VOA) Director Elez Biberaj, a longtime VOA manager with links to…
Read More 1 minute read Will Voice of America Biden Video Change How Muslim Americans Vote?July 28, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary This BBGWatch.com (USAGM – BBG Watch) video is about the Voice of America (VOA) Urdu…
Read More 4 minute read SARA CARTER Voice Of America Promoted A Pro-Biden Muslim Political Campaign Ad, Then Removed ItJuly 28, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Sara A. Carter , a national and international award-winning investigative reporter and Fox News contributor,…
Read More 11 minute read Cancel Culture Silenced Conservative and Moderate Dissent at the Voice of AmericaJuly 19, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary by Ted Lipien There May Be Only One or Two Bari Weisses and Andrew Sullivans…
Read More 8 minute read Need for Better Monitoring and Review of Reporting, Social Media PART FIVEJuly 14, 2020 Need for Better Monitoring and Review of Reporting, Social Media by Dan Robinson Sources have pointed BBG/USAGM Watch…
Read More 6 minute read Social Media Violations Continue, With Anti-Trump Narratives PART FOURJuly 10, 2020 Social Media Violations Continue, With Anti-Trump Narratives PART FOUR by Dan Robinson Since 2016, agency sources have been…
Read More 6 minute read HISTORY How Congress Exposed, Defunded and Stopped Domestic U.S. Government Propaganda in 1943June 22, 2020 During World War II, the federal government’s Office of War Information (OWI), where Voice of America (VOA) radio…
Read More 5 minute read MALONE, BORGIDA, ROBINSON, ANONYMOUS VOA on Letter to Editor About USAGM CEO Michael Pack and Voice of AmericaJune 19, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Two former Voice of America (VOA) reporters Jim Malone and David Borgida wrote in their…
Read More 6 minute read Current and Former Voice of America Journalists Look at Resignation of VOA Director Amanda BennettJune 15, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary By Current and Former VOA Journalists VOA Director Amanda Bennett and her deputy, Sandy Sugawara,…
Read More 3 minute read JAMSHID CHALANGI Voice of America, or Voice of the ‘Mullahs in Iran’?June 1, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Jamshid Chalangi, one of the well-known and respected Iranian refugee journalists, has published an article…
Read More 18 minute read Voice of America English News Quoted Putin on End of WWII Anniversary, But Not U.S. Secretary of State and Central European Ministers — Will Michael Pack Fix It?May 14, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary When it comes to history, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is easily winning the propaganda war…
Read More 9 minute read Tax-Funded Voice of America Shows Almost No #MeToo Interest in Joe Biden and Tara ReadeMay 8, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Tax-Funded Voice of America Gave U.S. Voters A Barrage of Russian-style Reporting on Trump and…
Read More 8 minute read Voice of America White House Bureau Chief Steve Herman in Dispute with Vice President Mike Pence’s Staff Previously Banned U.S. Reporters from His VOA Twitter AccountMay 1, 2020 USAGM WATCH COMMENTARY Voice of America (VOA) White House Bureau Chief Steve Herman, who was accused by Vice…
Read More 8 minute read Chinese Immigrant Objects to Voice of America Imitating Beijing’s Anti-U.S. PropagandaApril 27, 2020 USAGM WATCH COMMENTARY We have been contacted in the last several days by a young Chinese immigrant who…
Read More 8 minute read From ‘Dysfunctional’ and ‘Defunct’ to ‘Disgusting’ and ‘Disgrace’April 27, 2020 COMMENTARY By The Federalist US Government International Broadcasting – US Agency for Global Media – Voice of America…
Read More 12 minute read Here We Go Again – A Two-Minute VOA Video of Pure Chinese PropagandaApril 14, 2020 COMMENTARY By The Federalist Is the Voice of America (VOA): “a service of the People’s Republic of China…
Read More 3 minute read Trump White House: Voice of America spends your money to speak for authoritarian regimesApril 9, 2020 USAGM WATCH COMMENTARY The official Trump White House newsletter 1600 Daily has accused U.S. government-funded Voice of America…
Read More 3 minute read Steady Stream of Good China News Propaganda from Voice of AmericaMarch 30, 2020 USAGM WATCH COMMENTARY While posting a few short reports in recent days on how the communist China uses…
Read More 4 minute read Voice of America English News Fails to Report on Iranian-American Criticism of Omar and PelosiJanuary 14, 2020 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary A Voice of America VOA English News report, “Iranian Americans Show Support for…
Read More 5 minute read Violations of VOA Charter — Firewall Breached Part IIINovember 5, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary FOR BACKGROUND SEE: NBC’s Andy Lack visited Ukraine as US official in charge…
Read More 8 minute read Voice of America Ukraine Expert Called Joe Biden A ‘Good Man’November 3, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary FOR BACKGROUND SEE: NBC’s Andy Lack visited Ukraine as US official in…
Read More 8 minute read NBC’s Andy Lack visited Ukraine as US official in charge of Voice of AmericaOctober 31, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary NBC’s Andy Lack visited Ukraine as US official in charge of Voice…
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 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 4 minute read Cold War Lessons for Voice of America in China — Plight of VOA Mandarin FiveOctober 21, 2018 BBG Watch Guest Commentary This article is reposted from the Cold War Radio Museum – coldwarradiomuseum.com – website.…
Read More 4 minute read VOA Fires or Proposes Removal of 15 Hausa Service Employees for ‘Improper Conduct’October 4, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has been warning about similar potential problems of foreign influence in other Voice…
Read More 2 minute read Burning of U.S. and Jewish Flags Gets Record Views on Voice of AmericaDecember 12, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) videos showing nothing but burning of Jewish and American flags and…
Read More 7 minute read VOA reporter says journalists complain of being fed ‘manure’ by the White HouseMarch 16, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary Steve Herman, who was recently named White House bureau chief for the U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224…
Read More 17 minute read Tax-funded VOA posts more one-sided attacks on TrumpMarch 3, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary There have been more one-sided attacks on President Trump in recent Voice of America (VOA)…
Read More 4 minute read BBG CEO ‘greatest respect’ for President belied by Voice of America Trump epithetsFebruary 12, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary In the department of misleading news being repeated by mainstream media while the real story…
Read More 7 minute read ROBINSON: US government-funded media mismanaged for decadesJanuary 30, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary Editor’s Note: A critique of misleading media reports about the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
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 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…