Read More 4 minute read Iranians curse USAGM’s RFE/RL Radio Farda for repeating regime propagandaDecember 31, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Iranians are enraged by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Radio Farda, as well as in…
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 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…
Iranian-American: VOA Persian overlooked CA firesNovember 16, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary An Iranian-American journalist observed on Facebook that the Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service was…
Read More 2 minute read Tuning in to BQ Cullum — the Voice of AmericaNovember 13, 2018 BBG Watch Media Report and Commentary A local American newspaper has posted a profile of radio and television…
Read More 4 minute read How VOA explained not sending reporters to Pompeo press conference on Iran sanctionsNovember 12, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) and its parent federal agency, United States Agency for Global…
Read More 10 minute read USAGM outlets VOA and RFE/RL Radio Farda absent at Pompeo news conference on Iran sanctionsNovember 6, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary According to Iranian-American Mahtab Farid, neither the U.S. tax-funded and Federally-managed Voice of America (VOA)…
Read More 7 minute read No Mention on Tax-funded VOA News Website of Possible BlexitNovember 5, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary No Mention on Tax-funded VOA News Website of Possible Blexit Plenty of One-Sided Left-Wing…
Read More 4 minute read VOA Fires or Proposes Removal of 15 Hausa Service Employees for ‘Improper Conduct’October 4, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has been warning about similar potential problems of foreign influence in other Voice…
Read More 10 minute read USAGM The Rebranded Tower of BabelSeptember 23, 2018 OPINION U-SAG-M! The Rebranded Tower of Babel Old Is New, New Is Old By The Federalist …
Read More 16 minute read Pro-Stalin Voice of America Propaganda Revealed in 1984 VOA Interview with Józef Czapski – Cold War Radio MuseumSeptember 4, 2018 BBG Watch History A Cold War Radio Museum article points out official bias and censorship in Voice of…
Read More 2 minute read Voice of America Director Amanda Bennett with a USAGM UmbrellaAugust 26, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary on USAGM A picture that’s worth a thousand words. The photo, sent to BBG Watch…
Read More 2 minute read BBG’s – now USAGM – systemic failure on Iran coverageAugust 21, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary on USAGM “Additionally, in the aggregate, reportage on bilateral relations between the U.S.…
Read More 9 minute read “Weaponization?” What Congress wants are effective BBG programs to IranJuly 12, 2018 OPINION “Weaponization?” US Government International Media Information War: Lost By The Federalist A recent article…
Read More 2 minute read Iranian woman has hopes for management change at BBG, VOA Persian, Radio FardaJune 2, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Sheema Kalbasi, who tweets as @IranianWoman, is a U.S.-based Iranian poet, filmmaker, rights activist who…
Read More 6 minute read Iran scholars criticize BBG, VOA, and Radio Farda managementJune 1, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary With increasing frequency and frustration, anti-regime Iran scholars based in the West, as well as…
Read More 4 minute read BBG Digital Meltdown: The Perfect StormJune 1, 2018 OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Digital Meltdown: The Perfect Storm US Government International Media Information War: Lost…
Read More 10 minute read History for Voice of America: General Eisenhower accused WWII VOA of ‘insubordination’May 14, 2018 OPINION By Ted Lipien Voice of America (VOA) director Amanda Bennett left out some critical information when she…
Read More 5 minute read When you silence dissent, you lose, Iranian scholar tells RFE/RL VPApril 24, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Dr. Majid Mohammadi, author of more than three dozen books on Iran, joins a growing…
Read More 6 minute read Radio Farda: isn’t it time for a house cleaning?April 20, 2018 OPINION GUEST ANALYSIS Radio Farda: isn’t it time for a house cleaning? By Majid Mohammadi President Trump…
Read More 13 minute read Broadcasting Board of Governors Comedy Club Part TwoApril 10, 2018 OPINION BBG Comedy Club Part Two: The Road Show US International Media Information War Lost…
Read More 8 minute read Broadcasting Board of Governors Comedy ClubApril 8, 2018 OPINION BBG Comedy Club[ref] Photos: Lampooning Donald Trump at the Voice of America, December 14, 2016. See:…
Read More 13 minute read Message for Speaker Ryan from Dissident RFE/RL JournalistsMarch 24, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Dissident Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists want to tell House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI)…
Read More 1 minute read Voice Of America In Iran Propagandizes For The Ayatollahs, columnist and Iranians sayMarch 22, 2018 BBG Watch Media “Why do people in Iran call the U.S. Voice of America (VOA) the ‘Voice of…
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 5 minute read Putin Won By Bringing ‘Strength’ to Russia, RFE/RL Head Tom Kent tells BBGMarch 18, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary It would have been inconceivable for the head of U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe and…
Read More 6 minute read #ReformBBG — BBG, VOA, RFE/RL Employees Ask for Immediate ReformsMarch 12, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary According to the announcement posted on the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) website, the Broadcasting…
Read More 2 minute read Dissident VOA Persian journalists decry mismanagement and loss of objectivityMarch 6, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary A group of Voice of America (VOA) Persian Service journalists has prepared a memorandum in…
Read More 12 minute read HISTORY Voice of America 1951 – ‘Drab’ and ‘Unconvincing,’ Rep. Wigglesworth Quotes VOA Listeners in PolandFebruary 27, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary As part of our HISTORY series, we repost today an article from the Cold War…
Read More 11 minute read Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown 5.0 Part TwoFebruary 20, 2018 OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown 5.0 Part Two US Government International Media Know Your Audience? By…
Read More 14 minute read Tehran and Warsaw: Two Uprisings, Two Voice of America FailuresFebruary 20, 2018 OPINION Tehran and Warsaw: Two Uprisings, Two Voice of America Failures A Blueprint for Reform By…
Read More 4 minute read Voice of America helps Iranian regime stay in power, Pahlavi warnsFebruary 17, 2018 BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE Commentary Reza Pahlavi, the older son of the late Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,…
Read More 2 minute read Hit With $24M Cut, BBG Not Even Mentioned in FY 2019 White House Budget SummaryFebruary 12, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary The mismanaged and ailing Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and its mission are not even…
Read More 2 minute read HELLE DALE: Voice of America Is Undermining the U.S. AbroadFebruary 5, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, says in her latest…
Read More 5 minute read Watch Voice of America video of American Communist Angela DavisFebruary 3, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) produced and posted online a video of Angela Davis…
Read More 3 minute read Many in #IranProtests call VOA Voice of the Mullahs, says Kenneth TimmermanJanuary 28, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary In an interview with John Loeffler for his “Steel on Steel” radio program on January…
Read More 1 minute read WASHINGTON EXAMINER OP-ED: VOA’s Failure in Iran and ChinaJanuary 24, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Ted Lipien, a former VOA acting associate director who is one of the co-founders and…
Read More 5 minute read Management’s push threatens credibility of RFE/RL Georgian programsJanuary 22, 2018 BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE Commentary BBG Watch has learned from multiple sources in Washington, DC and Tbilisi, Georgia that…
Read More 9 minute read Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown on IranJanuary 19, 2018 OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown Mode on Iran: 4.0 US Government International Media By…
Read More 3 minute read ‘Deplorable’ VOA to Iran -The Hill op-edJanuary 19, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Two Iranian human rights activists, Mariam Memarsadeghi and Akbar Atri, say in an op-ed in…
Read More 2 minute read More Iran regime propaganda from VOAJanuary 18, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Showing zero sensitivity toward anti-regime protesters in Iran who demand regime change and hope for…
Read More 5 minute read VOA News not reporting on Ayatollah Shahroudi in Germany, called him ‘moderate’January 13, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Isn’t is strange that Voice of America VOA English News is not reporting on the…
Read More 1 minute read #ReformBBG – Support #IranProtestsJanuary 11, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Dear Americans, The U.S. taxpayer-founded @VOANews & @RFERL never took the right stance on #IranProtests…
Read More 8 minute read VOA or RT, which is a stronger Voice of the Mullahs?January 9, 2018 OPINION BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch commented early on Monday that U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) confirmed…
Read More 6 minute read Voice of America Posts Iranian Mullahs’ Victory Statement with A Pravda-like Top VOA HeadlineJanuary 8, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) confirmed its longstanding reputation for being what Iranian and…
Read More 4 minute read Timmerman calls on NSC for change of Voice of America leadershipJanuary 7, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary “Led by a stable of Obama appointees, the Voice of America and the Persian language…
Read More 9 minute read Voice of America repeats Iran regime propaganda that protests are waningJanuary 5, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Taking a clue from Iran’s regime propaganda, U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) reported that…
Read More 12 minute read Iranian protesters feel let down by VOA and Radio FardaJanuary 5, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary An Iranian coordinator of anti-regime protests in Iran who is now in exile told The…
Read More 4 minute read The Voice of Iranian Mullahs from VOA in WashingtonJanuary 3, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224 million FY 2017) Voice of America (VOA), still run by Obama…