Voice of America celebrates 98% sham election win by Rwandan dictator Kagame
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE In a news report that will delight every dictator and autocrat and their regimes…
Voice of America and Warsaw Uprising: Collusion with Stalin
Commentary By Ted Lipien “With genuine horror we listened to what the Polish language programs of the Voice…
Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez named new president of MBN to manage Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa
BBG Watch The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) announced that Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez, a refugee from Castro’s…
Time to Revisit Status of VOA
OPINION Time to Revisit Status of VOA, Other Government Media, in Washington Press Galleries By Dan Robinson…
Two Faces of BBG Management
BBG Watch Commentary The senior mangement of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has at least two faces.…
BBG — an agency of directors, managers and CEO
BBG Watch Commentary As federal employees of the ailing Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), known throughout the U.S.…
Voice of America China Guo Wengui Part Two
All Hell Broke Loose — A Commentary What Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett once called…
Tax-funded VOA posts more one-sided attacks on Trump
BBG Watch Commentary There have been more one-sided attacks on President Trump in recent Voice of America (VOA)…
BBG management followed, legitimized fake VOA Iran Twitter feed for years
BBG Watch Commentary In a stunning display of chaos, mismanagement and lack of oversight, key management units within…
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…
A Cup That Runneth Over
OPINION A Cup That Runneth Over USG International Broadcasting Information War Lost By The Federalist …
‘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…
Voice of America awakens to Castro’s death after humiliation on Facebook
BBG Watch Commentary After experiencing yet another humiliation on Facebook with absolutely dismal social engagement numbers for its…
Tax-funded Voice of America accuses Breitbart News of anti-Semitism, racism, ‘anti-women views’
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M in FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA), which never uses negative labels…
Pre-Trump bureaucratic hiring frenzy by BBG and VOA chiefs who may soon leave
BBG Watch Commentary As if the “practically defunct” (Hillary Clinton’s words in 2013) Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Trump wasn’t the only vilified candidate on tax-funded Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. President-elect Donald Trump was not the only presidential candidate vilified with hit pieces and…
Reviled in Voice of America hit pieces, Donald Trump appears projected winner and next U.S. president
BBG Watch Commentary In violation of its Congressional Charter, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has posted several…
Anti Donald Trump electioneering by tax-funded Voice of America violated VOA Charter
BBG Watch Commentary While the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election is still not yet fully decided…
Voice of America and 2016 Vote – Unprecedented Bias, Partisanship, and Sloppiness UPDATE
BBG Watch Commentary REPOSTED at 11:11 PM ET A staggering number of Voice of America (VOA) reports and…
Voice of America and 2016 Vote – Unprecedented Bias, Partisanship, and Sloppiness
BBG Watch Commentary A staggering number of Voice of America (VOA) reports and programs on the 2016 U.S.…
Voice of America revels in anti-U.S. ignorance abroad
BBG Watch Commentary We are sorry to report that with increasing frequency in recent months U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M…
45% of visits to Voice of America English website are from the U.S. – EXCLUSIVE
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE One of U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) newsroom editors disclosed in an internal…
Voice of America for Trump in a Russian puff video
BBG Watch Commentary A number of former and current Voice of America (VOA) journalists, including both…
1944 Warsaw Uprising Betrayed by Pro-Stalin WWII Voice of America
BBG Watch History August 1 marks the anniversary of the start of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising launched against…
Hillary Clinton on BBG and Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary With the 2016 Democratic National Convention (July 25-28) getting underway Monday to nominate the former…
Voice of America says ‘chaos’ reigns in Britain as do Russia’s RT and SPUTNIK
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) is reporting to its international audiences and whatever audiences…
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump camps accuse Voice of America of state-media bias
BBG Watch Commentary Bernie Sanders’ and Donald Trump’s supporters are absolutely right: there is something rotten at the…
LIPIEN OP-ED: Robert E. Sherwood on avoiding election coverage bias at Voice of America
OPINION Robert E. Sherwood on avoiding election coverage bias at Voice of America By Ted Lipien I disagree…
Reality Check
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost Reality Check By The Federalist There are some…
Panic News from Voice of America – Late – Not Quite Right
BBG Watch Commentary Everybody who checks and compares international news online knows by now that U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice…
Excellent reporting by Voice of America Russian Service journalists
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA), which now has new director, Amanda Bennett, is still capable…
Will RFE/RL Defeat Putin Propaganda With Plan Based On Catching ‘Anger Energy’?
BBG Watch Commentary At the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open board meeting on February 26, 2016, Radio…
McKinney Russell (1929-2016) – diplomat, Radio Liberty reporter, Voice of America manager
BBG Watch History McKinney Russell (1929-2016). Family courtesy photo. McKinney Russell (1929-2016) – diplomat, Radio Liberty reporter, Voice…
New BBG CEO John Lansing is having a positive impact, but is it enough?
BBG Watch Commentary There are clear signs that new Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John Lansing is…
No Particular Radio Liberty Support For Interview With Putin’s Accuser
BBG Watch Commentary INTRODUCTION: A young and successful Russian investigative reporter Anastasia Kirilenko is one of many who…
Voice of America Launched Extremism Watch Desk EXCLUSIVE
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE Commentary Defying her critics in the Voice of America (VOA) Central English Newsroom who object…
Edward R. Murrow – A Propaganda Hound
Commentary Ted Lipien, who is one of BBG Watch’s sponsors and supporters, has agreed to write for us…
BBG and VOA managers too busy traveling and teaching journalism abroad to manage their own
BBG Watch Commentary Too much foreign travel not related to a core activity can make a government agency…
Barbarians in the Headquarters of Voice of America? – Cal State Professor condemns ‘secret visit’ to VOA of Ethiopian regime officials
BBG Watch Media An unprecedented late evening and apparently secret meeting of high-level officials representing the highly repressive…
Matt Armstrong calls Voice of America a ‘fundamental counter to propaganda’, exaggerates successes, ignores failures
BBG Watch Commentary A Republican member of the bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in…
High-paying bureaucratic positions multiply at BBG
BBG Watch Commentary The embattled government agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), has a bloated bureaucracy which…
Voice of America gets an exclusive interview with Ukraine’s President Poroshenko
BBG Watch Media BBG Watch is reposting the Voice of America (VOA) report based on VOA’s exclusive interview…
1944 Warsaw Uprising Betrayed by Pro-Stalin WWII Voice of America
BBG Watch History BBG Watch is reposting an article about the Voice of America’s (VOA) pro-Soviet broadcasts during…
Voice of America late on Russia veto of UN Srebrenica resolution, appears to misinterpret US Ambassador’s comments
BBG Watch Commentary More than two hours after BBC, RT, RFE/RL and other international news organizations reported on…
The Katyn Massacre Lie and U.S. International Broadcasting
BBG Watch Guest Commentary The Katyń Lie and U.S. International Broadcasting Why did the Voice of…
Voice of America skipped some White House news on holiday weekend
BBG Watch Commentary A significant portion of Voice of America’s news coverage on Memorial Day weekend was done…
Death for Tsarnaev – earlier speculative Voice of America headlines undermined credibility
BBG Watch Commentary Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death over the April…
Speculative news headlines: Voice of America can’t learn from its mistakes
BBG Watch A few days ago, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) news operation for international audiences speculated…
Old news on Voice of America homepage
BBG Watch Guest Commentary BBG Watch occasionally publishes guest commentaries. This one is from a current Broadcasting Board…