censorship – BBG and USAGM Watch

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Voice of America Ignored for 3 Days House Foreign Affairs Committee Report Alleging ‘Culture of Corruption’ Allowed by Senior USAGM Executives

June 14, 2024

USAGM Watch Commentary Several former Voice of America (VOA) senior reporters and managers, who retired several years ago…

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The Hill Op-ed Against Anti-Semitism in Media and Walter Durnaty-Style Journalism at USAGM’s Voice of America (VOA)

December 29, 2023

USAGM Watch Commentary In his latest op-ed in The Hill, former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director…

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Voice of America Reverses Ban On Calling Hamas ‘Terrorists’ After USAGM CEO Amanda Bennett Gets An Earful From Members of Congress

December 5, 2023

Voice of America (VOA) reverses its ban on calling Hamas “terrorists” after U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM)…

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Voice of America trusts Hamas’ one-source news but not Israel’s, keeps Hamas’ fake news online for many days

November 25, 2023

USAGM Watch Commentary As signaled by Voice of America’s (VOA) insider whistleblowers, reported by the Washington Times, and…

Voice of America bans calling Hamas terrorists illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

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Why I can’t be silent when Voice of America bans calling Hamas ‘terrorists’ | Washington Times op-ed by Ted Lipien

November 22, 2023

I cannot remain silent because those who refuse to expose terrorism or delay condemning it today will find…

A clip from raw video footage posted by the Voice of America in 2017 without any balance.

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U.S.-Funded Voice of America Management Under USAGM and Some VOA Journalists Say Calling Hamas ‘Terrorists’ Is Wrong

November 9, 2023

USAGM Watch Commentary Whistleblowers at the U.S. government-funded and managed international media outlet Voice of America (VOA) have…

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Internal documents expose VOA directing staff not to refer to Hamas as a terrorist organization. Senator Bill Hagerty protests to USAGM CEO Amanda Bennett

November 9, 2023

USAGM Watch Commentary As reported by his U.S. Senate office, “Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Ranking Member of the…

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GOP Senators Demand Firings over Voice of America’s Policy against Labeling Hamas Members ‘Terrorists’ | National Review

November 9, 2023

USAGM Watch Commentary GOP Senators Demand Firings over Voice of America’s Policy against Labeling Hamas Members ‘Terrorists’ |…

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VOA’s refusal to call Hamas attackers ‘terrorists’ helps to perpetuate violence | Ted Lipien in The Hill

November 4, 2023

USAGM Watch Media Commentary VOA’s refusal to call Hamas attackers ‘terrorists’ helps to perpetuate violence | BY TED…

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USAGM management’s failure to vet Voice of America journalists

June 16, 2023

USAGM Watch Commentary In November 2022, a group of Voice of America (VOA) Russian Service journalists protested against…

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USAGM CEO Amanda Bennett Gave Evasive Answers About Internal Censorship of Voice of America News

March 15, 2023

USAGM Watch Commentary Testifying before the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related…

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Leadership failure at Voice of America and US Agency for Global Media calls for bipartisan reform | Washington Examiner Op-Ed

March 8, 2023

USAGM Watch Media Commentary When both the Washington Post and National Review report on yet another senior management-created scandal at Voice of America,…

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Voice of America reporters agreed to cuts in their report about a new scandal at U.S. Agency for Global Media – USAGM

March 7, 2023

USAGM Watch Media Commentary USAGM Watch has learned from sources at the Voice of America (VOA) that the…

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OIG Should Promptly Investigate Voice of America Management’s Censorship of VOA Vietnamese News Video

January 27, 2023

USAGM Watch Commentary Before key participants and witnesses at the Voice of America (VOA) and U.S. Agency for…

Congress needs to launch a bipartisan investigation of the recent censorship of the VOA Vietnamese Service news report and other similar incidents throughout the Voice of America in recent years.

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Congress Needs to Investigate Censorship at the Voice of America

January 8, 2023

Commentary By Ted Lipien for Free Media Online There is a long history of censorship at the Voice…

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‘Censorship and Falsehoods’ – Voice of America Vietnamese Journalists Blame VOA’s Senior Management | EXCLUSIVE

December 18, 2022

When the senior Voice of America management got caught by the Washington Post on their censoring of the…

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Voice of America’s lame excuse for censorship | Washington Examiner Op-Ed

December 7, 2022

The censorship was outrageous, as was the nonchalant manner in which senior leaders in charge of upholding the…

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U.S. Agency for Global Media: Understating The Obvious

December 1, 2022

A Guest Commentary By The Federalist One of the resources we use to monitor the U.S. Agency for…

Voice of America Director Amanda Bennett in 2017. VOA Photo.

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More Censorship at USAGM — VOA to Vietnam Censored by Management

November 17, 2022

Censorship at USAGM — U.S. Agency for Global Media has returned at the Voice of America (VOA) under…

In 2016 Voice of America (VOA) produced this graphic to illustrate reports on Fidel Castro’s death. It was used as the VOA Spanish Service Facebook Cover image.

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Symbolic Justice for Stalin’s Victims, But Not Yet From Voice of America Management

December 25, 2021

Commentaries about Stalin’s victims, Voice of America By Ted Lipien (Tadeusz Lipień) In my Washington Examiner Christmas Day…

Washingtonian Tegaru protesting in front of the VOA building in DC demanding they cover #TigrayGenocide. The photo was posted on Twitter on June 2, 2021 by Rahel Tigraweyti (ሃገረ ዓባይ ትግራይ) @RYifter.

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Voice of America’s failure in Ethiopia needs Biden’s attention for stopping genocide and reforming VOA and USAGM

July 2, 2021

USAGM Watch Commentary By Ted Lipien #TigrayGenocide President Biden must act quickly to reform the Voice of America…

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Current and Former U.S. Agency for Global Media Executives Protected Controversial VOA Managers

May 28, 2021

USAGM Watch Commentary by Former VOA English and VOA Foreign Language Reporters As we pointed out recently, problems…

Amanda Bennett being sworn as VOA Director by Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John Lansing, April 18, 2016. Kelu Chao, a longtime VOA senior executive and later acting CEO of USAGM (BBG's name since 2018) is also in the photo.

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Bad Management At Voice of America and USAGM Starts At The Very Top

May 26, 2021

Voice of America central English newsroom and VOA language services have in recent years been the focus of…

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New Questions About Leadership at Voice of America and USAGM Regarding Ethiopia

May 26, 2021

USAGM Watch Commentary by Former VOA English and VOA Foreign Language Reporters Here We Go Again: New Questions…

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Repeating Beijing Propaganda, Voice of America Still Gets Targeted by China

March 18, 2020

USAGM WATCH COMMENTARY This morning (March 17, 2020) the taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) in the U.S. Agency…

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Voice of America disinformation on Khadija Ismayilova for Press Freedom Day

May 6, 2019

BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) in the federal U.S. Agency for Global…

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Paul Goble on the need to reform and save RFE/RL to counter Russian censorship and propaganda

April 7, 2019

BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary America’s top expert on Kremlin propaganda Paul Goble has commented on the controversy over Radio…

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HISTORY 1953 CIA Source: People Died in Czechoslovakia Because of Pro-Communist Propaganda from Voice of America

January 3, 2019

OPINION AND ANALYSIS Cold War Radio Museum 1953 CIA Source: People Died in Czechoslovakia Because of Pro-Communist…

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Fear of the Chinese Government Continues Among Some at VOA

August 29, 2018

Guest Commentary Fear of the Chinese Government and Caving in to Its Pressure Continue Among Some at…

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Iranian woman has hopes for management change at BBG, VOA Persian, Radio Farda

June 2, 2018

BBG Watch Commentary Sheema Kalbasi, who tweets as @IranianWoman, is a U.S.-based Iranian poet, filmmaker, rights activist who…

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Bennett Denies There was Chinese Pressure on Guo Wengui VOA Interview

April 26, 2018

BBG Watch Commentary Bennett Denies There was Chinese Pressure on Guo Wengui VOA Interview …

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Voice of America censors a report on Guo Wengui

October 6, 2017

BBG Watch Commentary In a news report without much substantive information, written in a style similar to Soviet…

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HELLE DALE Did the Chinese Government Influence Voice of America?

May 31, 2017

BBG Watch Media Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, commented on the latest…

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Zbigniew Brzezinski took action against censorship at Voice of America in 1978

May 31, 2017

BBG Watch Commentary Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski who died last week at age 89 showed keen interest in U.S.…

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WSJ Op-Ed: How China Managed to Muffle the Voice of America

May 25, 2017

BBG Watch Media Sasha Gong, Voice of America’s Mandarin Service Chief who has been suspended by VOA director…

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Mock funeral at Voice of America protest VIDEO

May 8, 2017

BBG Watch Commentary An amateur video of the anti-censorship protest on May 8, 2017 in front of the…

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Chinese Americans protest against censorship with a mock funeral at Voice of America

May 8, 2017

BBG Watch Commentary @zhaoyan818 棺材上还有来自低于光之兄弟群体的星光层的存有：棺才上那个弧形的光源 pic.twitter.com/nO766Sp8AV — Vivian (@wy513888) May 8, 2017 A group of Chinese Americans staged…

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Voice of America Newsroom reporter comments on Guo Wengui controversy

May 3, 2017

OPINION/COMMENTARY The upper management of the Voice of America (VOA) and its parent agency, the Broadcasting Board of…

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Damage to Voice of America reputation in China is ‘unbelievable,’ VOA director was told

May 3, 2017

BBG Watch Commentary As Voice of America director Amanda Bennett suspends and investigates VOA China journalists, shouldn’t she…

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South China Morning Post: VOA Mandarin Service staffers ‘suspended’

May 2, 2017

BBG Watch Media Commentary The South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong English-language newspaper, has reported on five…

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Voice of America director cut short Guo Wengui live interview

May 1, 2017

Voice of America director cut short Guo Wengui live interview BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE Commentary BBG Watch has seen…

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Protest against censorship of China program at Voice of America

April 28, 2017

BBG Watch Commentary Chinese Americans, former Chinese dissidents, Chinese students and media freedom activists in the Washington, DC…

Chinese whistleblower Guo Wengui being interviewed by the Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service in April 2017. VOA senior management ordered the shortening of the live portion of the interview after the Chinese communist government and its Embassy in Washington demanded the canceling of the VOA program to China with Guo Wengui.

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VOA China Fought Mgmt Push To Limit Guo Wengui Interview — Part III

April 26, 2017

VOA China Fought Mgmt Push To Limit Guo Wengui Interview — Part III Reputation Damaged — A…

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VOA Interview With Guo Wengui Cut Short

April 21, 2017

BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has cut short its interview with Chinese businessman…

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Katyn Cover-up – Hidden History of the Voice of America

April 12, 2017

BBG Watch History Very few Americans and few Poles know today that during World War II, the Voice…

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Voice of America wastes U.S. tax dollars on watermelons for China

August 19, 2016

BBG Watch Commentary If you are wondering how U.S. taxpayer-funded ($777 million in FY 2017) Broadcasting Board of…

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WP article on Internet censorship in which BBG is not even an afterthought

August 4, 2016

BBG Watch Commentary “The Internet was supposed to foster democracy. China has different ideas.” was the headline of…

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CUSIB urges use of radio and TV to counter new ‘Great Cannon’ in China

May 6, 2015

BBG Watch Media The Laogai Research Foundation (LRF) established by Laogai survivor Harry Wu has reported on the…

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BBG Chair Jeff Shell and CUSIB both warn of ‘Great Cannon’ new China Internet censorship tool

May 2, 2015

BBG Watch BBG Watch reposts the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) press release which focuses…

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WAHL – POMERATSEV – DALE on Kremlin conspiracy theories propaganda

April 15, 2015

BBG Watch Media A congressional hearing, entitled “Confronting Russia’s Weaponization of Information,” was convened Wednesday in Washington by…