Voice of America and Internment of Japanese Americans
Introduction With today’s 75th anniversary of the signing of the presidential executive order to imprison Japanese Americans during…
Former director decries bias, partisanship, lack of vision at Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary Amanda Bennett, Obama administration holdover director of U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224 million) Voice of America (VOA),…
Voice of America keeps fake immigration news long after White House, DHS denials
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224 million) Voice of America (VOA), run by the vast dysfunctional bureaucracy of…
Idea of Balance on Voice of America: A Double Attack on Trump Multiplied
BBG Watch Commentary The United States is a nation of many political opinions, not just one opinion or…
Voice of America News failure on Trump – Lithuania story
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224 million FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA), managed by the vast bureaucracy…
BBG CEO ‘greatest respect’ for President belied by Voice of America Trump epithets
BBG Watch Commentary In the department of misleading news being repeated by mainstream media while the real story…
Voice of America director’s e-mail, one-sided panels set tone for partisan attacks on Trump
BBG Watch Commentary A July 8, 2016 e-mail from Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett to her…
Stunning BBG CEO John Lansing SPUTNIK interview: ‘US, Russia Not in State of Information War’
BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John F. Lansing apparently gave an interview to Russia’s…
Harry Wu – supporter of human rights and U.S. broadcasts to China
BBG Watch Ann Noonan, executive director of the independent NGO Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB.org), has written…
CUSIB voices support for Radio and TV Marti broadcasts to Cuba
BBG Watch Media A recent article in Radio World, “Post-Fidel, the Broadcast Hostility Remains,” focuses on the growing…
Some Voice of America reporters continue to trash Trump
BBG Watch Commentary CORRECTION: An earlier version of this commentary had a reference to tweets and retweets allegedly…
US Media Agency Accelerating Toward Oblivion
OPINION US Media Agency Accelerating Toward Oblivion US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist…
ROBINSON: US government-funded media mismanaged for decades
BBG Watch Commentary Editor’s Note: A critique of misleading media reports about the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Voice of America removes Trump Bingo Game after BBG Watch report
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) has removed from the web its special project “Trump Inauguration Bingo”…
BBG Officialdom Burrowing In
OPINION BBG Officialdom Burrowing In US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist …
Voice of America Takes a Barb at President with Humiliating Trump Inauguration Bingo
BBG Watch Commentary Reporters working for the U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M FY2017) Voice of America (VOA), some of whom…
‘Beyond pathetic’ unique views for Voice of America, inside sources say
BBG Watch Commentary A Voice of America (VOA) foreign and domestic correspondent of many years told BBG Watch…
A Cup That Runneth Over
OPINION A Cup That Runneth Over USG International Broadcasting Information War Lost By The Federalist …
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…
The Russians Are Coming!
OPINION The Russians Are Coming! US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist …
Some Voice of America reporters broke new hate speech ground in 2016
BBG Watch Commentary Unprecedented use of hate speech, use of an F-word, a vulgar and sexist sex joke…
After sexist slurs against Mrs. Trump at Voice of America party, VOA posts a story on anti-Obama slur
BBG Watch Commentary A comment was sent to us by one of our readers, a former VOA foreign…
Let Hysteria Ring!
OPINION Let Hysteria Ring! By The Federalist It’s been a bad year for the bulk…
Meltdown-mode Voice of America fails on Carrie Fisher
BBG Watch Commentary “May The Force Be With You.” “The Force” is definitely not with U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M…
Voice of America reporters demean Ivanka Trump, fail to report on plane harassment incident
BBG Watch Commentary A few days ago, Voice of America (VOA) newsroom reporters, editors and managers, who are…
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…
Voice of America story romanticizes a terrorist, experienced VOA reporters complain
BBG Watch Commentary Some of the most experienced Voice of America (VOA) journalists are complaining that many of…
Helle Dale in WT: Baseless angst over reforming Voice of America
BBG Watch Media Helle Dale, the senior fellow for public diplomacy in The Heritage Foundation, noted in her…
Voice of America Civil Service Employees Satire Trump, Future First Lady
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 programs
BBG Watch History 35 years ago, on December 13, 1981, the Polish communist regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski…
BBG journalists posting Trump swastika memes afraid VOA might become politicized under his presidency
BBG Watch Commentary Some Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) U.S. government employees who have have posted obscene memes…
‘The Persian News nightmare’ on Voice of America
BBG Watch Media Report/Commentary In a new Washington Times op-ed published December 11, 2016, New York Times best-selling…
Voice of America hit pieces on Trump nominees continue, now with tabloid headlines
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) continues to post what can only…
SPUTNIK and RT take Voice of America for a ride in a “Russian Cat Tank”
BBG Watch Commentary There is probably nothing more satisfying to the Kremlin propagandists in charge of Russia’s SPUTNIK…
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…
WP defends defunct BBG Board, fails to mention VOA chiefs’ former links to the paper
BBG Watch Media Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees have been rating their agency in Office of Personnel…
Voice of America failed to report Ben Rhodes represented Obama at Castro funeral
BBG Watch Commentary Practically defunct (Hillary Clinton’s words), U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA) failed…
Biased Voice of America reports whip up anti-U.S. hysteria: Wole Soyinka story
BBG Watch Commentary Photo of Wole Soyinka by Chidi Anthony Opara [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons. On…
DAN ROBINSON: At the BBG — A World of Alternate Universes
Commentary This is a guest commentary for BBG Watch written by former senior Voice of America White House…
HFAC Chair Ed Royce welcomes elimination of BBG board
BBG Watch Commentary House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) welcomed the House passage of the National Defense…
BBG chiefs heap praise on executives of a failed agency
BBG Watch Commentary In the end, the Obama White House pulled the plug on Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Voice of America reporters horrified by decline of VOA journalistic standards
BBG Watch Commentary A former Voice of America (VOA) correspondent who during his long career with taxpayer-funded VOA…
Who Knew?
Commentary Who Knew? Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost By The Federalist Some thoughts about the 2016…
BBG CEO John Lansing’s digital tout and Voice of America cat video
BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) ($777 million in FY 2017) CEO and Director John F.…
No Change of Leadership at Broadcasting Board of Governors, CEO John Lansing assures employees
BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) ($777 million in FY 2017) CEO and Director John F.…
Washington Times op-ed: Voice of America airs “pro-Iranian regime propaganda” and “wild fantasy-land libel” against Trump
BBG Watch Media In a Washington Times op-ed published November 21, 2016, New York Times best-selling author, political…
Voice of America VOA English News about 10 hours late in posting to Facebook on Castro’s death
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America’s VOA English News was about ten (10) hours behind Russia’s RT,…
VOA, RT, BBC Facebook Castro posts compared: VOA 379; RT 11K; BBC 56K Likes
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America’s (VOA) declining relevance as an international media outlet was once again illustrated…
Many Voice of America services late on Castro’s death, Trump calling him “brutal dictator,” VOA journalists complain
BBG Watch Commentary Journalists working for U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) are complaining that because of poor…