What Went Wrong with USAGM • VOA • RFE/RL?
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary What Went Wrong with USAGM • VOA • RFE/RL? • In…
Former BBG Governor Cullum criticized VOA for Russian propaganda in Venezuela reporting
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary American radio host and former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Blanquita Cullum…
HISTORY Rep. Howard H. Buffett, Warren Buffett’s father, feared domestic VOA propaganda
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Domestic Propaganda Cold War Radio Museum has posted on its…
White House FY2020 Budget Proposal Calls for Major Cuts in USAGM Spending
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The Trump administration’s proposed Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year…
Allegations of old anti-Semitism part of new scandals at USAGM’s Voice of America and RFE/RL
BBG – USAGM Commentary Various niche media outlets were reporting last week on new serious allegations against the…
Voice of America silent on Eliot Engel, other US condemnations of ‘vile anti-Semitic slur’ by Rep. Omar
BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA), which repeatedly broadcast one-sided attacks by…
Ed Royce on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads
OPINION Issues in the News: Royce Report on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads U.S. International Media:…
USAGM Is Federal Bureaucracy’s Fantasyland
OPINION U-SAG-M — Federal Bureaucracy’s Fantasyland Information War Lost: Diversionary Tactics By The Federalist In…
USAGM CEO Lansing blasts critics who exposed his agency’s illegal Facebook ads targeting Americans
BBG Watch Commentary In a letter to the Editor of The Los Angeles Times, CEO of the U.S.…
Propaganda Video from RFE/RL and VOA “Current Time” Russian Program of U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM)
BBG Watch Commentary This one-sided political and partisan propaganda video was produced with Russian subtitles…
WFB: House Foreign Affairs Committee uncovered new spate of management failures at USAGM and VOA
BBG Watch Media Commentary A new report by Susan Crabtree in The Washington Free Beacon provides additional details…
Voice of America Persian Service targeted Americans with illegal Facebook ads
BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
Voice of America Russian Service’s illegal targeting of Americans with Facebook ads exposed by Rep. Royce
BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
Congress exposes repeated violations of Smith-Mundt Act in USAGM agency’s Facebook ads targeting Americans
BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
USAGM CEO John Lansing ignored early warnings of ads targeting Americans
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO John Lansing, who had been appointed in 2015 during…
Senators block attempt to entrench bureaucrats at Voice of America and USAGM
BBG Watch Media Commentary A group of conservative senators has blocked a bill which would allow holdover bureacrats…
Bennett Denies There was Chinese Pressure on Guo Wengui VOA Interview
BBG Watch Commentary Bennett Denies There was Chinese Pressure on Guo Wengui VOA Interview …
MENDES ‘Don’t believe the lies’ about alleged BBG ‘coup’
BBG Watch Media Commentary As reported by Miami Herald, acting director of Radio and TV Martí André Mendes…
A favorite Broadcasting Board of Governors manager of former BBG Democratic Chairman
BBG Watch Commentary André Mendes, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) manager in the center of a recent media…
Royce calls for new BBG CEO and VOA reform
BBG Watch Commentary Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ed Royce (R-CA) has called for new CEO…
Public Diplomacy Challenges for the Trump Administration
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) has posted multiple raw videos without any commentary or context…
Another former RFE/RL newswoman Shahida Tulaganova slams management
BBG Watch Commentary UK-based award-winning investigative reporter Shahida Tulaganova joined another award-winning journalist Khadija Ismayilova, a former political…
Revitalized U.S. international broadcasting critically needed, says HFAC Chairman Ed Royce
BBG Watch Commentary In a strong rebuke of the current Obama era management in charge of the Broadcasting…
Information Statecraft in National Security Strategy is a rebuke of Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary While the dysfunctional and mismanaged Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal agency in charge of…
Private emails may hamper any OIG investigation of Voice of America Guo Wengui incident
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has learned that at least until recently some Voice of America (VOA)…
Do Voice of America and BBG officials have conflicts of interest in China?
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, a U.S.-based international human rights group that opposes forced abortion…
Members of Congress request OIG investigation of VOA and BBG handling of Guo Wengui interview EXCLUSIVE
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Four members of the U.S. Congress who serve on committees in the U.S. Senate…
Facebook, Russia, Trump – Did Voice of America violate U.S. laws?
BBG Watch Commentary As reported by The Washington Post and others, Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it…
Cheerful ignorance of facts about Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary The writer of this journalistically confused and one sided New Republic article about the Voice…
Kenneth R. Timmerman, others want to lead reforms at BBG EXCLUSIVE
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that several highly-qualified individuals with various combinations of foreign policy, public…
BBG CEO John Lansing willfully withheld information from the Board, resigning BBG Governor told Hill contacts
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Republican member Matt Armstrong, who has resigned his position…
Obama signs off on reducing status of Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary President Barack Obama has signed into law S. 2943, the “National Defense Authorization Act for…
Washington Post Enabling BBG Dysfunction With A Dysfunctional Message
Commentary Washington Post Enabling BBG Dysfunction With A Dysfunctional Message Broadcasting Board of Governors: Information War Lost By…
WP defends defunct BBG Board, fails to mention VOA chiefs’ former links to the paper
BBG Watch Media Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees have been rating their agency in Office of Personnel…
HFAC Chair Ed Royce welcomes elimination of BBG board
BBG Watch Commentary House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) welcomed the House passage of the National Defense…
BBG chiefs heap praise on executives of a failed agency
BBG Watch Commentary In the end, the Obama White House pulled the plug on Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Defunct BBG Board to bite the dust
BBG Watch Commentary In the end even the Obama White House had enough of the “practically defunct“ (Hillary…
Pre-Trump bureaucratic hiring frenzy by BBG and VOA chiefs who may soon leave
BBG Watch Commentary As if the “practically defunct” (Hillary Clinton’s words in 2013) Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Richard Stengel is Obama’s nominee for Chairman of Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch News and Commentary President Obama announced his intent to nominate Richard Stengel for Member and Chairman…
Are you in good hands, BBG?
BBG Watch Commentary “It’s playing everywhere here – even during the Olympics!,” a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Flawed law permits Broadcasting Board of Governors members to do private business in Russia and China
BBG Watch Commentary With increasing demands for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to come clean about accusations against…
VOA live convention views less than 0.0001% in China, 0.006% in Russia, 0.03% in Iran
BBG Watch Commentary According to Voice of America Director Ms.Amanda Bennett’s figures, less than 0.0001% Mandarin speakers, 0.0004% English speakers, 0.002% Spanish speakers, 0.006% Russian speakers,…
Clueless U.S. agency invites Putin’s officials to RFE/RL party, they boot their chairman out of Russia instead
BBG Watch Commentary How clueless and mismanaged can the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) be? According to an…
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 name
BBG Watch Commentary In a report on the New York LGBT Pride March on Sunday, June 26, the…
How the US is working to defeat ISIS online with no mention of the BBG
BBG Watch Commentary Yet another media article on how the U.S. is trying to defeat ISIS online was…
Poor quality BBG video, risky ads on BBG YouTube, VOA Director Amanda Bennett
BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has posted on its official website and uploaded to…
Voice of America Downplaying Terrorist Threat From ISIS
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 electioneering
BBG Watch Media A journalist working as a U.S. government employee for the taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA)…
Voice of America employees question BBG CEO John Lansing e-mail about their future
BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees received on Thursday, June 2, an e-mail with “Message…
Closed meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has posted a closed meeting notice to meet the…