TIBETANS, SUPPORTERS IN 100+ CITIES STAND UP FOR FREEDOM AS SELF-IMMOLATIONS CONTINUE IN TIBET
BBG Watch joins in the protests against repression in Tibet and renews its appeal to pressure the Obama…
Victor Ashe questions BBG decision to cut Voice of America radio to Tibet
A senior Republican member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) publicly questioned the BBG decision to end…
Obama, Clinton, Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi congratulate VOA on 70th anniversary amid severe cuts
As the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) plans to eliminate and reduce numerous Voice of America (VOA) broadcasting…
Rohrabacher offers amendment to save VOA and RFA radio to Vietnam
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has offered an amendment to “H.R. 1410: Vietnam Human Rights Act of 2011” designed…
Open Letter to Members of House Appropriations Committee on Silencing of America's Overseas Broadcasts
The independent, nongovernmental Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) has released an Open Letter to Members of House…
CUSIB Submits Open Letter to House Appropriations Committee in Defense of Broadcasting to Tibet and China
March 7, 2012 CUSIB Submits Open Letter to House Appropriations Committee in Defense of Broadcasting to Tibet and…
Cutting life line of Tibetans
A guest comment by Dolma Chhonzom, Kensington, MD It is the life lines for Tibetans in Tibet for…
Moral principles need to guide U.S. international broadcasting
by Ted Lipien I strongly urge the Broadcasting Board of Governors to reverse cuts to Voice of America…
Chinese News Makes Inroads in U.S. by Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation
Dr. Helle Dale of the Heritage Foundation observed that while the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) constantly eliminates…
Why America Has Trouble Reaching Iran: VOA’s Persian News Network in Dire Need of Reform by Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation
Helle C. Dale, a Senior Fellow for Public Diplomacy at The Heritage Foundation has written another in-depth analysis…
Tibet Needs Both Voice of America Radio and Radio Free Asia
According to a BBG spokeswoman, it would be “irresponsible” in the current tight budget environment to keep VOA…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – The Eve of Destruction
by The Federalist On March 7, 2012 the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) plans to mark the 70th…
Broadcasting Board of Governors employee union withdraws from Labor/Management Forum, cites management's bad faith
The AFGE Local 1812 Employee Union at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) announced it was withdrawing from…
BBG Ready to Drop the Ax on Cantonese and Tibetan Services by CUSIB's Ann Noonan in National Review
This article by the Committee for U.S. international Broadcasting (CUSIB) Executive Director Ann Noonan was published in National…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Needs Sensitivity Training on Tibet
This commentary was written by Edite Lynch in response to the news that a Tibetan widow and a…
Broadcasting Board of Governors' goal: All managers, no workers
The obvious goal is to produce a workforce that is ALL managers and NO workers, with no broadcasting…
VOA Tibetan broadcasters will be fired so friends from CNN can get on government payroll
“We learned this week that no one will be hired from the outside without approval from the 3rd…
Workforce is non federal, but bloated bureaucracy isn't
So the Broadcasting Board of Governors says privatizing VOA is “not on the table.” but VOA’s Mr. King…
Op-Ed: America’s radios dancing to Putin’s tune in Moscow
In a Digital Journal news commentary, Op-Ed: America’s radios dancing to Putin’s tune in Moscow, former Voice of…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Behold! The Master Plan
by The Federalist As we already know, as part of the administration’s FY2013 budget, the Broadcasting Board…
BBG claims surrogate broadcasters can do Voice of America's job
In a response for a RadioWorld article, “Advocacy Group Objects to BBG Cuts,” a spokesperson for the Broadcasting…
Linguistic Peking Duck Soup at Broadcasting Board of Governors
The Broadcasting Board of Governors has unveiled its budget proposal for FY2013 which calls for eliminating Voice of…
Truth – peace loving Buddhist Tibetans deserve no less from the USA
This comment from Joseph Buday, a former Voice of America English Newsroom editor and manager, was made in…
Beijing and Obama Administration restrict Cantonese broadcasts
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency which runs the Voice of America broadcasts and other…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Should Show Some Humanity
Guest Commentary by Edite Lynch. Ms. Lynch lives in Canada. Her parents were refugees from totalitarianism. Show Humanity…
Human rights groups appeal to Congress to save broadcasts to China, Tibet and other nations without free media
This announcement was first published by the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB). Link Open Letter to Members…
Fewer journalists but executive offices fully occupied at Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
This commentary was sent to BBG Watch by a Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty journalist who uses Jan…
Demoralized Voice of America — Georgian Service
“The Georgian Service of the Voice of America is demoralized,” a VOA staffer wrote to BBG Watch. It…
North Carolina Congressman Asks For Modernizing U.S. Broadcasting Facility
BBG Watch News Commentary Rep. Walter B. Jones (R-NC) is asking the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to…
Quieting the Voice of America – Helle Dale, The Heritage Foundation
“More than 30 years have passed since Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about the “Soft Voice of America” in an…
BBG Gone Pravda
BBG Watch Commentary An old Soviet-era joke went something like this: “This is Armenian Radio; our listeners asked…
Tibetan monks listen secretly to Voice of America radio soon to be silenced by BBG
“The [Buddhist] monks [in Tibet] listen secretly to Voice of America’s Tibetan service news every night, despite feeling…
Trouble at PNN – Voice of America to Iran – BBG blamed
BBG Watch Commentary Several recent media reports point to serious problems at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),…
Over 200,000 Hits in Five Months for BBGWatch.com – Thank You
The independent BBGWatch.com website has had over 200,000 hits in the first five months since it was launched…
U.S. taxpayers funding pro-Putin VOA programs – Ted Lipien in Washington Examiner
BBG Watch Commentary Ted Lipien, a former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director and co-founder of BBG…
Russian Accuses Voice Of America Of Fake Interview – NPR
BBG WATCH COMMENTARY NPR’s Michele Kelemen, a former employee of Voice of America, reported on the recent VOA…
Cantonese speakers face moves against their language from Chinese and American officials
Chinese regime officials don’t like Chinese media use of Cantonese language and neither does the Obama Administration for…
HOWL – Part Five – Let them eat cake
A Voice of America journalist who uses a pen name Mary Jane has posed this problem: As we…
BBG awarded 50 million dollar contract to Gallup while planning to terminate broadcasts and fire over 200 journalists
Journalists at the Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Alhurra TV, Radio Sawa, and…
HOWL – Part Four – Old-fashioned Cronyism at Broadcasting Board of Governors
A Voice of America journalist who uses a pen name Mary Jane has posed this problem: As we…
HOWL – Part Three – Inspector Detective of Email Violations
A Voice of America journalist who uses a pen name Mary Jane has posed this problem: As we…
CUSIB starts campaign against Broadcasting Board of Governors’ cuts in broadcasts to Tibet, China and other countries
The nongovernmental and independent Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting has issued a strong statement in opposition to the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ plans to eliminate or reduce news and information programs to Tibet, China, Vietnam, Laos, Burma and to other countries without free media.
CUSIB starts campaign against Broadcasting Board of Governors' cuts in broadcasts to Tibet, China and other countries
The nongovernmental and independent Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting has issued a strong statement in opposition to the…
We Are Not All Together at Broadcasting Board of Governors
“We Are Not All Together” were prophetic words from AFGE Local 1812, a union representing Broadcasting Board of Governors rank-and-file employees.
Party Line vs. Congressional Hearings
“What all of this discussion points to every so clearly is the need for overseeing congressional committees to hold comprehensive hearings on the future of U.S. international broadcasting, and do it BEFORE any legislation is able to move through Congress that would simply rubber stamp the BBG’s flim flam strategic plan.” – A comment from an anonymous VOA journalist on an article in MountainRunner.us by Dr. Kim Andrew Elliott
No Free Speech at USIB
Message to Broadcasting Board of Governors: Yes, some of us are cowards and we are ashamed I agree totally with the scared employee quoted above. Even amongst management there is a pervasive sense of fear and retaliation. Anyone’s job can be put on the line for petty imagined offenses – or a privately expressed opinion
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Not Too Big To Fail
by The Federalist The Broadcasting Board of Governors – International Broadcasting Bureau (BBG/IBB), known to be the worst…
'Civility in the Workplace' Campaign vs. 'Sanity in the Workplace'
From a VOA journalist: Re the below “Civility in the Workplace” Campaign: How amusing that VOA kicked off…
BBG member S. Enders Wimbush described as chief architect of program cuts to Tibet, China and other communist countries
BBG Watch News Commentary Sources told BBG Watch that it was not former Democratic Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Has Broadcasting Board of Governors Gone Mad? BBG wants to cut Voice of America programs to Tibet and other nations under communism
This commentary by an anonymous Broadcasting Board of Governors’ journalist analyzes the BBG’s FY2013 budget proposal which calls…