Read More 3 minute read Senior Voice of America exec listed as Facebook friend of VOA reporter with ‘F*ck Trump’ posts EXCLUSIVEApril 5, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary A March 5, 2019 screenshot of a 2016 post, showing a dog and…
Read More 6 minute read Pompeo calls for USAGM leadership changeMarch 29, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary In his appearance on March 27, 2019 before the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee…
Read More 14 minute read Tajik Dictator’s Propaganda Promoted by U.S. Tax-funded RFE/RLMarch 28, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The e-mail reposted below with some minor editing was sent to BBG Watch…
Read More 7 minute read RFE/RL Tajik Service – One Scandal Too Many Under USAGM CEO John LansingMarch 28, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch According to an e-mail seen by BBG – USAGM Watch, a top lieutenant to…
Read More 6 minute read Twitter poll: VOA and Radio Farda USAGM Iran audience claims are falseMarch 27, 2019 BBG Watch Commentary A Twitter poll, launched on March 21, 2019 by Radio Farda personality, political satirist, actor…
Read More 7 minute read Former Analyst Challenges USAGM Audience Measurement Methods, Claims of Sharp IncreasesMarch 27, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Guest Commentary Former Analyst Challenges USAGM Audience Measurement Methods, Claims of Sharp Increases By…
Read More 4 minute read HISTORY Rep. Howard H. Buffett, Warren Buffett’s father, feared domestic VOA propagandaMarch 25, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Domestic Propaganda Cold War Radio Museum has posted on its…
Read More 8 minute read Meet The USAGM PR Flash MeisterMarch 21, 2019 OPINION Government International Media: Meet The USAGM PR Flash Meister By The Federalist John Lansing.…
Read More 5 minute read White House FY2020 Budget Proposal Calls for Major Cuts in USAGM SpendingMarch 18, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The Trump administration’s proposed Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year…
Read More 7 minute read Allegations of old anti-Semitism part of new scandals at USAGM’s Voice of America and RFE/RLMarch 18, 2019 BBG – USAGM Commentary Various niche media outlets were reporting last week on new serious allegations against the…
Read More 2 minute read Voice of America was days late in reporting on an anti-Semitic slurMarch 7, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary UPDATE In yet another news reporting failure for the Voice of America, BBC,…
Read More 4 minute read Voice of America silent on Eliot Engel, other US condemnations of ‘vile anti-Semitic slur’ by Rep. OmarMarch 4, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA), which repeatedly broadcast one-sided attacks by…
Read More 5 minute read Silencing Steve BannonFebruary 27, 2019 GUEST BBG – USAGM WATCH COMMENTARY Silencing Steve Bannon By Sasha Gong It is hard…
Read More 8 minute read It’s Alive! The USAGM DystopiaFebruary 27, 2019 OPINION It’s Alive! The U-SAG-M Dystopia By The Federalist “Dystopia” has a broad range of definition. In part,…
Read More 5 minute read USAGM and Voice of America: The Case of the Disappeared — and Delayed — Steve Bannon InterviewFebruary 27, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary According to sources in the Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service and friends…
Read More 10 minute read USAGM CEO John Lansing’s right-hand man, Dr. Haroon Ullah, strangely missing lately from his sideFebruary 25, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary UPDATE BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The U.S. Department of Justice announced in…
Voice of America ignores ‘The Donald’ pro-Trump art exhibition in AlbaniaFebruary 23, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has ignored “The Donald” pro-President…
Read More 2 minute read Voice of America afraid to correct its false newsFebruary 20, 2019 USAGM Watch Commentary On January 31, 2019, the lead paragraph in a news report issued to the whole…
Read More 6 minute read Did Voice of America federal reporter threaten Americans to silence pro-Trump free speech?February 20, 2019 USAGM Watch Commentary On a Twitter account showing news from the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), a…
Read More 3 minute read VOA Director Amanda Bennett’s Chinese New Year Greeting BackfiresFebruary 10, 2019 BBG Watch Commentary 美国之音给您拜年啦!美国之音台长贝内特、中文部主任托瑞埃罗和其他语言组的同仁祝您?年身体健康、合家欢乐、万事如意!!! pic.twitter.com/0aJwkGAgWx — 美国之音中文网 (@VOAChinese) February 3, 2019 VOA Director Amanda Bennett’s Chinese New…
Read More 3 minute read Voice of America US gov’t employee-reporter called for Covington students to be outedFebruary 6, 2019 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded (Annual budget: $234.7 million; Employees: 1,078) Voice of America (VOA), managed by the…
Read More 6 minute read RFE/RL claims Iran clergy “remains firmly in place” as criticism of Radio Farda, VOA and USAGM goes viralFebruary 1, 2019 BBG Watch Commentary In a new video from U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which is managed…
Read More 11 minute read Ed Royce on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook AdsJanuary 30, 2019 OPINION Issues in the News: Royce Report on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads U.S. International Media:…
Read More 7 minute read Did VOA’s ‘Report: Trump Told Attorney Cohen to Lie to Congress’ comply with VOA Charter and Journalistic Code?January 24, 2019 BBG Watch Commentary Question Did the Voice of America (VOA) under the directorship of Pulitzer-winning journalist Amanda Bennett,…
Read More 2 minute read Trump Sticks With Pack for Broadcasting Chief, WFB reportedJanuary 18, 2019 BBG Watch Media As reported by Susan Crabtree in the Washington Free Beacon, “President Trump has re-nominated documentary…
Read More 5 minute read Intriguing VOA tweet about snow, Trump, media, and pilots of U.S. Marine One helicopterJanuary 16, 2019 Comedy We have put this one under our new BBG – USAGM Watch Comedy category. We were quite…
Read More 5 minute read Does he listen to Radio Free Europe? A question from “Cold War” 2018 movieJanuary 10, 2019 OPINION By Ted Lipien Cold War – Clip: I’ve Been Ratting On You | Amazon Studios I was…
Read More 4 minute read Iranians curse USAGM’s RFE/RL Radio Farda for repeating regime propagandaDecember 31, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Iranians are enraged by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Radio Farda, as well as in…
Read More 10 minute read USAGM Is Federal Bureaucracy’s FantasylandDecember 26, 2018 OPINION U-SAG-M — Federal Bureaucracy’s Fantasyland Information War Lost: Diversionary Tactics By The Federalist In…
Read More 3 minute read USAGM CEO Lansing blasts critics who exposed his agency’s illegal Facebook ads targeting AmericansDecember 25, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary In a letter to the Editor of The Los Angeles Times, CEO of the U.S.…
Read More 18 minute read OPINION VOA Problems: Racism, Xenophobia, Mediocrity, and NepotismDecember 25, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Director Amanda Bennett has made various charges against VOA Mandarin Service…
Read More 2 minute read Propaganda Video from RFE/RL and VOA “Current Time” Russian Program of U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM)December 25, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary This one-sided political and partisan propaganda video was produced with Russian subtitles…
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 4 minute read Voice of America Russian Service’s illegal targeting of Americans with Facebook ads exposed by Rep. RoyceDecember 21, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
Read More 3 minute read Congress exposes repeated violations of Smith-Mundt Act in USAGM agency’s Facebook ads targeting AmericansDecember 21, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
Read More 6 minute read USAGM CEO John Lansing ignored early warnings of ads targeting AmericansDecember 21, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO John Lansing, who had been appointed in 2015 during…
Read More 2 minute read Voice of America ignores Der Spiegel journalistic scandal despite fake reports from the U.S.December 20, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. government-run and U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has ignored the Claas Relotius journalistic…
Read More 10 minute read Chinese whistleblower Guo Wengui accuses Voice of America of intentional defamation, demands an apologyDecember 19, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary In posts on Twitter and in a telephone interview in which he answered questions from…
Read More 1 minute read Senators block attempt to entrench bureaucrats at Voice of America and USAGMDecember 18, 2018 BBG Watch Media Commentary A group of conservative senators has blocked a bill which would allow holdover bureacrats…
Read More 28 minute read HISTORY The Year 1968 in the History of SamizdatDecember 18, 2018 Reposted Commentary Cold War Radio Museum The Year 1968 in the History of Samizdat The recent death…
Read More 5 minute read Voice of America Mandarin Service had meetings with Chinese Embassy, Hoover Institution and Asia Society report saysDecember 13, 2018 BBG Watch Media Commentary According to a report of the Working Group on Chinese Influence Activities in the…
Read More 6 minute read New York Times missed evidence of existing Voice of America bias under Amanda Bennett and John LansingDecember 13, 2018 BBG Watch Media Commentary While noting some of the management scandals at the Voice of America (VOA) and…
Read More 5 minute read Lyudmila Alekseyeva defended Radio Liberty Russian journalists fired by RFE/RL bossesDecember 9, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Lyudmila Alekseyeva (alternative spelling: Alexeyeva, Alexeeva), a veteran defender of human rights and a prominent…
Read More 8 minute read HISTORY | President Eisenhower condemned biased Voice of America officials and reportersDecember 5, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Cold War Radio Museum Voice of America Then and Now Historically, partisanship at the…
Sen. Warner to Propose National Cybersecurity DoctrineDecember 5, 2018 Sen. Warner to Propose National Cybersecurity Doctrine| Mutlichannel NEWS “Expand American influence abroad to extend the key…
Read More 2 minute read Dan Robinson comments on NPR report about VOADecember 5, 2018 Voice Of America Vows Independence, As Trump Calls For ‘Worldwide Network’ Dan Robinson comments on NPR report…
Read More 2 minute read Washington Post: VOA fires journalist over interview with Chinese exileDecember 4, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary A Failure of Leadership No matter how one reads the Washington Post’s blog opinion article…
Read More 2 minute read WFB: “Corker, Menendez Push Effort to ‘Neuter’ Trump’s Broadcasting Chief”December 2, 2018 BBG Watch Media Commentary Washington Free Beacon senior writer Susan Crabtree who has been reporting on U.S government…
Read More 3 minute read Fearful and silenced, anti-communist Voice of America journalists side with Mandarin 5 against VOA directorNovember 30, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary In secret messages to BBG Watch, some of the remaining anti-communist journalists at U.S. tax-funded,…