Read More 10 minute read BBG management followed, legitimized fake VOA Iran Twitter feed for yearsFebruary 22, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary In a stunning display of chaos, mismanagement and lack of oversight, key management units within…
Read More 7 minute read ROBINSON: US government-funded media mismanaged for decadesJanuary 30, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary Editor’s Note: A critique of misleading media reports about the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Read More 6 minute read BBG Officialdom Burrowing InJanuary 22, 2017 OPINION BBG Officialdom Burrowing In US Government International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist …
Read More 9 minute read Let Hysteria Ring!December 27, 2016 OPINION Let Hysteria Ring! By The Federalist It’s been a bad year for the bulk…
Read More 4 minute read Meltdown-mode Voice of America fails on Carrie FisherDecember 27, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary “May The Force Be With You.” “The Force” is definitely not with U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M…
Read More 4 minute read Helle Dale in WT: Baseless angst over reforming Voice of AmericaDecember 20, 2016 BBG Watch Media Helle Dale, the senior fellow for public diplomacy in The Heritage Foundation, noted in her…
Read More 4 minute read WP defends defunct BBG Board, fails to mention VOA chiefs’ former links to the paperDecember 10, 2016 BBG Watch Media Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees have been rating their agency in Office of Personnel…
Read More 11 minute read Voice of America whips up anti-Trump hysteria with one-sided reportingDecember 5, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary “The lawyer representing the family of Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the man who wounded 11…
Read More 6 minute read Dysfunctional U.S. agency gets its chief’s name, title wrong in a press releaseDecember 5, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Who is “BBG Chairman Joh Lansing”?, as a recent Broadcasting Board of Governors press release…
Read More 6 minute read Defunct BBG Board to bite the dustDecember 1, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary In the end even the Obama White House had enough of the “practically defunct“ (Hillary…
Read More 2 minute read Washington Times op-ed: Voice of America airs “pro-Iranian regime propaganda” and “wild fantasy-land libel” against TrumpNovember 27, 2016 BBG Watch Media In a Washington Times op-ed published November 21, 2016, New York Times best-selling author, political…
Read More 8 minute read Tax-funded Voice of America accuses Breitbart News of anti-Semitism, racism, ‘anti-women views’November 26, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M in FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA), which never uses negative labels…
Read More 4 minute read MORE SUPERVISORS FOR TOP HEAVY VOICE OF AMERICA AND BLOATED BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORSNovember 21, 2016 Commentary Read the comment, “Top heavy getting much heavier,” reposted below from one of BBG Watch readers in…
Read More 2 minute read Former Voice of America senior journalist exposes cronyism, low morale, bogus audience claimsNovember 21, 2016 BBG Watch Media Former senior White House correspondent for the taxpayer-funded ($224M in FY 2017) Voice of America…
Read More 7 minute read Voice of America and Broadcasting Board of Governors chiefs allow biased reportingNovember 21, 2016 Commentary Voice of America and Broadcasting Board of Governors need immediate attention and reform By Ted Lipien…
Read More 14 minute read Voice of America should stick to journalism, stop one-sided name-calling in reports on Donald TrumpNovember 15, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M in FY2017) Voice of America (VOA) should by all means continue to…
Read More 7 minute read Voice of America, RFE/RL ignore White House statement on genocide in UkraineNovember 14, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Hillary Clinton when she was U.S. Secretary of State called the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Read More 4 minute read Voice of America still has not posted a profile of Melania Trump, others didNovember 11, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Under the leadership of Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO and director John F. Lansing,…
Read More 15 minute read Message from Voice of America Director fails to acknowledge who won U.S. PresidencyNovember 9, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Amanda Bennett Amanda Bennett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who as director of U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M…
Read More 1 minute read Russia’s RT gets twice as many LIVE Facebook views for Trump victory speech than Voice of AmericaNovember 9, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Russia’s propaganda outlet RT is showing twice as many LIVE Facebook views for Donald Trump’s…
Read More 2 minute read Reviled in Voice of America hit pieces, Donald Trump appears projected winner and next U.S. presidentNovember 9, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary In violation of its Congressional Charter, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) has posted several…
Read More 1 minute read VOA News finally gets 1K LIVE Facebook views – BBC News has 23.9KNovember 9, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary At 12:52 AM ET, U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M FY2017) Voice of America (VOA) finally managed to…
Read More 3 minute read NYT got it wrong on VOA being a Cold War relicOctober 10, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary In a news analysis article, “
Read More 5 minute read Voice of America for Trump in a Russian puff videoAugust 10, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary A number of former and current Voice of America (VOA) journalists, including both…
Read More 6 minute read Broadcasting Board of Governors has no peer in diminished performanceJune 28, 2016 OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost The Never-Ending Downward Spiral Part Three By The Federalist …
U.S. tax-funded Voice of America joins anti-Donald Trump electioneeringJune 8, 2016 BBG Watch Media A journalist working as a U.S. government employee for the taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA)…
Read More 4 minute read Voice of America journalists don’t want to be treated like childrenJune 4, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary VOICE OF AMERICA JOURNALIST: “I’ve got some ideas for what they can scavenge for.…
Read More 9 minute read Employee morale commitment letter from BBG CEOMay 3, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary As the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is distributing links for federal employees to participate…
Read More 15 minute read RFE/RL as Radio Free Kremlin, Not An April Fools Day JokeApril 1, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary This is not an April Fools Day Joke, as much as we wished it to…
Read More 7 minute read A Fantasy of Success at Broadcasting Board of GovernorsMarch 8, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary “‘It’s a whirlwind of positive change.’ Summing up the recent (February 26 [2016]) bimonthly public…
Read More 3 minute read Amanda Bennett considered for Voice of America director EXCLUSIVEFebruary 17, 2016 BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has learned that journalist, author and former newspaper editor Amanda Bennett (@abennett; Facebook)…
Read More 7 minute read Hand Me A Shovel, Part IIFebruary 16, 2016 BBG Watch OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost: Hand Me A Shovel, Part Two…
Read More 7 minute read Pro-status quo BBG Washington insider criticized for resisting BBG reformFebruary 13, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Two former Voice of America (VOA) journalists criticized Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Republican member,…
Read More 8 minute read VOA News ignored Senator Corker on Putin corruptionFebruary 2, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (English) News Omits Senator Corker’s Comments on Putin Corruption Voice of…
Read More 13 minute read New BBG CEO John Lansing is having a positive impact, but is it enough?January 29, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary There are clear signs that new Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO John Lansing is…
Read More 12 minute read Life in Post-Soviet Russia of Former Radio Liberty ReporterJanuary 25, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary INTRODUCTION: A young and successful Russian investigative reporter Anastasia Kirilenko is one of many who…
Read More 7 minute read Bruce Sherman leaving BBG as Office Of Strategy And Development DirectorJanuary 15, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that Bruce Sherman is leaving the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Read More 3 minute read Voice of America gets hit with ‘Extreme Temperature Swings’January 7, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary If electricity and digital outages, disrupting for hours and in some cases several days delivery…
Read More 4 minute read Russia propaganda machine gains on U.S. | Washington TimesDecember 28, 2015 BBG Watch Media In an interview with The Washington Times, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep.…
Read More 7 minute read BBG hit with $400M employee contractors suitDecember 23, 2015 BBG Watch Commentary A $400 million class action lawsuit was filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Federal…
Read More 10 minute read BBG CEO gives two longtime SES executives new dutiesDecember 21, 2015 BBG Watch Commentary Some Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees are scratching their heads to explain a recent…
Read More 10 minute read Is this Russian RT, SPUTNIK or something else?December 19, 2015 BBG Watch Commentary Was this Facebook item posted by Russian propaganda channel RT, Russian disinformation news agency SPUTNIK…
Read More 5 minute read CUSIB, other experts disagree with David Ensor and one Superman CEO solution for BBGDecember 14, 2015 BBG Watch Media The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) posted a comment in Foreign Policy…
Read More 7 minute read Voice of America power and broadcasting outage UPDATEDecember 8, 2015 BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE It took the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) massive administrative and technical support staff a…
Read More 3 minute read Voice of America homepage link to California shooting did not work as story developedDecember 3, 2015 BBG Watch Commentary In yet another journalistic, digital and managerial embarrassment for U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA)…
Read More 6 minute read Broadcasting Board of Governors claims a record audience despite dismal VOA social media statsNovember 16, 2015 BBG Watch Commentary There is no shortage of good news from the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) despite…
Read More 7 minute read Voice of America ignores White House statement on Holodomor genocide in 1930s Ukraine, as does RFE/RLNovember 8, 2015 BBG Watch Commentary Someone worked at the White House this Saturday, November 7, but not at the U.S.…
Read More 27 minute read Matt Armstrong calls Voice of America a ‘fundamental counter to propaganda’, exaggerates successes, ignores failuresOctober 25, 2015 BBG Watch Commentary A Republican member of the bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the federal agency in…
Read More 6 minute read On the eve of Town Hall meeting, BBG employees present a plea to new CEO John LansingOctober 19, 2015 BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE On the eve of the Town Hall to Introduce CEO John Lansing, scheduled for Tuesday,…
Read More 9 minute read OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: DefeatedAugust 26, 2015 Commentary BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media outreach, public…