U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America allows comments calling for killing gays
BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), managed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
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…
Voice of America whips up anti-Trump hysteria with one-sided reporting
BBG Watch Commentary “The lawyer representing the family of Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the man who wounded 11…
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…
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…
Obama ignores BBG media in remarks on ISIL propaganda, Voice of America ignores his remarks
BBG Watch Commentary Call it getting even by the Voice of America. In a wide-ranging news conference last…
Excellent NYT op-ed on Putin’s propaganda – Broadcasting Board of Governors again not even an afterthought
BBG Watch Media Commentary We have gotten used to the U.S. taxpayer-funded Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the…
Voice of America Turkey and EU headlines could have been written by RT
OPINION VOA Should Quote Experts, Not Mix News With Commentary By Ted Lipien Voice of America…
Voice of America far behind BBC, DW, RT, SPUTNIK on Istanbul terror attack
BBG Watch Commentary Even at 6:00 PM ET Tuesday, the lead news story on the Voice of America…
Downward Spiral At Broadcasting Board of Governors
Opinion Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost The Never-Ending Downward Spiral Part Two By The Federalist …
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…
20 Excellent Years for Voice of America Bosnian Service
BBG Watch The Voice of America’s (VOA) Bosnian Service has been one of the most successful VOA services…
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…
Former BBG Governor calls Voice of America video on Islamist terrorism flawed and dangerous
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch is posting this commentary as an introduction to an op-ed by former presidentially-appointed…
RFE/RL English reporting is often superficial and sloppy
BBG Watch Commentary During the Cold War, U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was a giant of…
Correcting Voice of America history
BBG Watch Former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director, Ted Lipien, who earlier in his VOA career…
RFE/RL as Radio Free Kremlin, Not An April Fools Day Joke
BBG Watch Commentary This is not an April Fools Day Joke, as much as we wished it to…
‘Wholesale racism’ in Israel: RFE/RL Facebook message paid by U.S. taxes
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has included a message in the…
Curious convergence? Voice of America and RT on Turkey
BBG Watch Media Commentary After the downing of the Russian fighter jet by the Turkish military in November…
HELLE DALE Broadcasting Reform At BBG Is Urgently Needed To Fight ISIS
BBG Watch Media Helle C. Dale, the Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in public diplomacy, has called for urgent…
Some in Congress fuming over BBG lobbying for status quo EXCLUSIVE
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE Some members of Congress are angry at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), its board…
Congress to BBG: You are a ‘Broken Agency’
BBG Watch This press release was posted today on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs website. This…
Communicators with new BBG CEO John Lansing
BBG Watch Media C-SPAN has posted its Communicators with John Lansing video. John Lansing is new Chief Executive…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: We Lost – State of Fear – NOT!
OPINION “State of Fear” – a Voice of America (VOA) article published shortly after the terrorist attack in…
VOICE OF AMERICA FRENCH or VOA Agence France Presse ?
BBG Watch Commentary Why is no one at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) apparently concerned that the…
Op-Ed: Voice of America falsely tells world U.S. is in a “State of Fear”
BBG Watch Media “Two days before President Obama’s Oval Office address on domestic terrorism, the Voice of America…
Voice of America news foul-ups — Point/Counterpoint
BBG Watch BBG Watch commentary: “Voice of America homepage link to California shooting did not work as story…
Voice of America opponents of ‘countering violent extremism’ not likely to be asked to do it
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) English newsroom reporters, some of whom make more than $150,000 per…
Carter Administration opposed consolidation of U.S. government broadcasting and Voice of America privatization
Commentary By Ted Lipien Recently released U.S. government documents show that President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor (1977–1981)…
Voice of America manager argues for keeping ‘hateful’ Facebook comments on U.S., France, and gays
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Facebook pages get a dismally low number of comments from readers…
OPINION We’ve Lost For The French and Western Civilization
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: We’ve Lost For The French and Western Civilization By The Federalist…
On the eve of Town Hall meeting, BBG employees present a plea to new CEO John Lansing
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE On the eve of the Town Hall to Introduce CEO John Lansing, scheduled for Tuesday,…
U.S. hero stabbed – Voice of America late again and out-reported by BBC
BBG Media So . . . . here is a story that is not an earthshaker, but is…
Ben Carson urges Voice of America to wage information warfare against ISIS
BBG Watch Media Leave it to Ben Carson, once way back in the pack among GOP presidential candidates,…
BBG sleepwalks through RFE/RL crisis
BBG Watch Guest Commentary This commentary was written by a former senior Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) official…
OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Defeated
Commentary BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media outreach, public…
John Lansing will encounter entrenched pro-status quo BBG bureaucracy, Congressional sources warn
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE “Tackling these problems and ‘righting the ship’ will be a truly herculean effort, perhaps only…
Reactions vary to John Lansing as contender to lead U.S. BBG media outreach
BBG Watch Opinions BBG Watch has received a number of reactions to its exclusive report that U.S. cable…
Digital Journal op-ed: Voice of America in intellectual twilight zone against Putin
BBG Watch Media Commentary An
John F. Lansing is leading contender for U.S. broadcasting BBG CEO post EXCLUSIVE
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has learned from reliable high-level sources within the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
RFE/RL video commentary on death of Robert Conquest, pedestrian VOA Russian coverage
BBG Watch Commentary As Voice of America (VOA) English News website completely ignored the recent death of British-American…
Robert Conquest and Voice of America’s intellectual decline
BBG Watch Commentary Robert Conquest (left), who died on August 3, 2015, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom…
OPINION Voice of America Information War Lost: A Day For Stifling Debate
Commentary BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media outreach, public…
Senator Ted Cruz wants BBG to counteract ISIS propaganda, some Voice of America English news staffers don’t
BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)…
Radio Free Iraq no longer needed, shut down, Broadcasting Board of Governors announced
BBG Watch Commentary With the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), a jihadi extremist…
Briefing Memo 2 for New BBG CEO – IBB Silencing Voice To The Voiceless
BBG WATCH EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has received from a source within the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) a…
State Department Lamely Markets Anti-IS Messages to Millennials
BBG Watch Media Much of the same thing has been going on at the Broadcasting Board of Governors’…
Broadcasting Board of Governors reform bill reintroduced
BBG Watch Broadcasting Board of Governors reform bill reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives with greater protection…
Where have all the Voice of America correspondents gone?
BBG Watch Guest Commentary BBG Watch occasionally publishes guest commentaries. This one is from MC, a longtime Voice…