Read More 4 minute read What Went Wrong with USAGM • VOA • RFE/RL?May 6, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary What Went Wrong with USAGM • VOA • RFE/RL? • In…
Read More 11 minute read Former BBG Governor Cullum criticized VOA for Russian propaganda in Venezuela reportingMay 4, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary American radio host and former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Blanquita Cullum…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 4 minute read Bennett Denies There was Chinese Pressure on Guo Wengui VOA InterviewApril 26, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Bennett Denies There was Chinese Pressure on Guo Wengui VOA Interview …
Read More 8 minute read MENDES ‘Don’t believe the lies’ about alleged BBG ‘coup’March 30, 2018 BBG Watch Media Commentary As reported by Miami Herald, acting director of Radio and TV Martí André Mendes…
Read More 6 minute read A favorite Broadcasting Board of Governors manager of former BBG Democratic ChairmanMarch 23, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary André Mendes, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) manager in the center of a recent media…
Read More 3 minute read Royce calls for new BBG CEO and VOA reformMarch 21, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ed Royce (R-CA) has called for new CEO…
Read More 5 minute read Public Diplomacy Challenges for the Trump AdministrationMarch 19, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) has posted multiple raw videos without any commentary or context…
Read More 9 minute read Another former RFE/RL newswoman Shahida Tulaganova slams managementJanuary 27, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary UK-based award-winning investigative reporter Shahida Tulaganova joined another award-winning journalist Khadija Ismayilova, a former political…
Read More 3 minute read Revitalized U.S. international broadcasting critically needed, says HFAC Chairman Ed RoyceDecember 18, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary In a strong rebuke of the current Obama era management in charge of the Broadcasting…
Read More 4 minute read Information Statecraft in National Security Strategy is a rebuke of Broadcasting Board of GovernorsDecember 18, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary While the dysfunctional and mismanaged Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal agency in charge of…
Read More 3 minute read Private emails may hamper any OIG investigation of Voice of America Guo Wengui incidentOctober 12, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has learned that at least until recently some Voice of America (VOA)…
Read More 9 minute read Do Voice of America and BBG officials have conflicts of interest in China?October 3, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, a U.S.-based international human rights group that opposes forced abortion…
Read More 7 minute read Members of Congress request OIG investigation of VOA and BBG handling of Guo Wengui interview EXCLUSIVESeptember 30, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Four members of the U.S. Congress who serve on committees in the U.S. Senate…
Read More 8 minute read Facebook, Russia, Trump – Did Voice of America violate U.S. laws?September 7, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary As reported by The Washington Post and others, Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it…
Read More 5 minute read Cheerful ignorance of facts about Voice of AmericaApril 11, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary The writer of this journalistically confused and one sided New Republic article about the Voice…
Read More 5 minute read Kenneth R. Timmerman, others want to lead reforms at BBG EXCLUSIVEMarch 6, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that several highly-qualified individuals with various combinations of foreign policy, public…
Read More 6 minute read BBG CEO John Lansing willfully withheld information from the Board, resigning BBG Governor told Hill contactsJanuary 26, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Republican member Matt Armstrong, who has resigned his position…
Read More 10 minute read Obama signs off on reducing status of Broadcasting Board of GovernorsDecember 23, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary President Barack Obama has signed into law S. 2943, the “National Defense Authorization Act for…
Read More 9 minute read Washington Post Enabling BBG Dysfunction With A Dysfunctional MessageDecember 10, 2016 Commentary Washington Post Enabling BBG Dysfunction With A Dysfunctional Message Broadcasting Board of Governors: Information War Lost By…
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 4 minute read HFAC Chair Ed Royce welcomes elimination of BBG boardDecember 2, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) welcomed the House passage of the National Defense…
Read More 2 minute read BBG chiefs heap praise on executives of a failed agencyDecember 1, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary In the end, the Obama White House pulled the plug on Broadcasting Board of Governors…
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 8 minute read Pre-Trump bureaucratic hiring frenzy by BBG and VOA chiefs who may soon leaveNovember 17, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary As if the “practically defunct” (Hillary Clinton’s words in 2013) Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Read More 4 minute read Richard Stengel is Obama’s nominee for Chairman of Broadcasting Board of GovernorsOctober 24, 2016 BBG Watch News and Commentary President Obama announced his intent to nominate Richard Stengel for Member and Chairman…
Read More 10 minute read Are you in good hands, BBG?August 12, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary “It’s playing everywhere here – even during the Olympics!,” a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Read More 9 minute read Flawed law permits Broadcasting Board of Governors members to do private business in Russia and ChinaAugust 6, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary With increasing demands for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to come clean about accusations against…
Read More 6 minute read VOA live convention views less than 0.0001% in China, 0.006% in Russia, 0.03% in IranJuly 25, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary According to Voice of America Director Ms.Amanda Bennett’s figures, less than 0.0001% of Mandarin speakers, 0.0004% of English…
Read More 6 minute read Clueless U.S. agency invites Putin’s officials to RFE/RL party, they boot their chairman out of Russia insteadJuly 17, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary How clueless and mismanaged can the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) be? According to an…
Read More 6 minute read In a report on New York LGBT Pride March, Voice of America fails to call Orlando shooting terrorism, doesn’t mention murderer’s oath to ISIS or even his nameJune 26, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary In a report on the New York LGBT Pride March on Sunday, June 26, the…
Read More 4 minute read How the US is working to defeat ISIS online with no mention of the BBGJune 25, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Yet another media article on how the U.S. is trying to defeat ISIS online was…
Read More 11 minute read Poor quality BBG video, risky ads on BBG YouTube, VOA Director Amanda BennettJune 24, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has posted on its official website and uploaded to…
Read More 6 minute read Voice of America Downplaying Terrorist Threat From ISISJune 20, 2016 OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost – The Never-Ending Downward Spiral Voice of America Downplaying Terrorist…
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 5 minute read Voice of America employees question BBG CEO John Lansing e-mail about their futureJune 3, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees received on Thursday, June 2, an e-mail with “Message…
Read More 4 minute read Closed meeting of the Broadcasting Board of GovernorsMay 23, 2016 BBG Watch The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has posted a closed meeting notice to meet the…