Read More 8 minute read Voice of America Between A Firewall and AccountabilityNovember 27, 2020 USAGM Watch OPINION and COMMENTARY By Ted Lipien What is more important: protecting Voice of America (VOA) U.S.…
Read More 10 minute read Voice of America Needed Prodding to Report on Hunter Biden New York Post StoryOctober 17, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary It took prodding from outside journalists to get Voice of America (VOA) central English newsroom…
Read More 3 minute read Many in #IranProtests call VOA Voice of the Mullahs, says Kenneth TimmermanJanuary 28, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary In an interview with John Loeffler for his “Steel on Steel” radio program on January…
Read More 9 minute read Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown on IranJanuary 19, 2018 OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown Mode on Iran: 4.0 US Government International Media By…
Read More 4 minute read Wall Street Journal: Broadcasting Board of Governors ‘slow and backward’ on Iran and freedomJanuary 18, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL: Today’s dissenters need software to evade the regime’s internet…
Read More 3 minute read Devastating criticism of Radio Farda, VOA, and BBG from former officialJune 23, 2017 BBG Watch Media Former director of Radio Liberty during the fall of communism in the Soviet block and…
Read More 1 minute read WSJ op-ed: In Iran, Radio Liberty Doesn’t Live Up to Its NameJune 12, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary Radio Farda, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) “Persian-language service too often parrots state…
Read More 5 minute read Former Voice of America director defends VOA China journalistsJune 6, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary Former Voice of America (VOA) director Robert R. Reilly had his letter to the editor…
Read More 3 minute read WSJ Op-Ed: How China Managed to Muffle the Voice of AmericaMay 25, 2017 BBG Watch Media Sasha Gong, Voice of America’s Mandarin Service Chief who has been suspended by VOA director…
Read More 5 minute read Former director decries bias, partisanship, lack of vision at Voice of AmericaFebruary 18, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary Amanda Bennett, Obama administration holdover director of U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224 million) Voice of America (VOA),…
Read More 7 minute read WSJ Commentary: A Partisan Voice of AmericaAugust 12, 2015 BBG Watch Media Sohrab Ahmari, an editorial page writer for the Wall Street Journal Europe, based in London,…
Read More 10 minute read Ed Royce in WSJ on countering Putin’s information weapons of warApril 15, 2015 BBG Watch Commentary Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the…
Read More 6 minute read A Broken Voice of America – Wall Street Journal EditorialDecember 17, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch is posting a short excerpt and a link to a recent Wall Street…
Read More 7 minute read Wall Street Journal Opinion: Voice of America is a Voice of Anti-AmericanismDecember 12, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Wall Street Journal Editorial Page Writer Sohrab Ahmari was interviewed for a WSJ Opinion Journal…
Read More 5 minute read Austin attacks Reilly, distorts his views on reforming Voice of AmericaJune 10, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Former Voice of America (VOA) Director Dan Austin, who in 2008 ended all direct VOA…
Read More 3 minute read WSJ op-ed by former VOA director Robert Reilly – Unmuffling the Voice of AmericaJune 5, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Former Voice of America director Robert Reilly has written an op-ed for The Wall Street…
Read More 3 minute read A New Voice of America, Wall Street Journal EditorialMay 6, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch reported today that “in contrast to other Western broadcasters, such as BBC and…
Read More 6 minute read The Voice of America Shouldn’t Be A Whisper by John LenczowskiApril 18, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, former President Reagan’s Soviet affairs advisor John Lenczowski argues…
Read More 1 minute read Why Journalists Frighten Putin – op-ed by David Satter in WSJJanuary 16, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary “The Russian decision to declare me persona non grata is more than an action against…