Read More 5 minute read Why no Koreans in VOA Greta with Trump photo?June 21, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary .@realDonaldTrump with VOA after interview in Singapore pic.twitter.com/ohO2JvVnHZ — Greta Van Susteren (@greta) June…
Read More 5 minute read Heather Nauert stresses collaboration, firewall with BBG, praises RFA Uyghur ServiceJune 8, 2018 BBG Watch Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman Kenneth Weinstein opened the BBG board meeting on June 6,…
Read More 6 minute read ‘Arc of success’ BBG manager Jeff Trimble is retiringJune 8, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary “Board Chairman Kenneth Weinstein thanked outgoing Deputy Director Jeff Trimble for his 21…
Read More 2 minute read China dissident Qiao Moo gets a brush-off from VOAMay 12, 2018 Mr. Qiao Mu, a dissident Chinese academic, previously a professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University and a…
Read More 8 minute read Employee Survey Time 2018 at Broadcasting Board of GovernorsMay 9, 2018 OPINION Employee Survey Time 2018 US International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist It’s time…
Read More 4 minute read Former RFE/RL Kazakh editor criticizes managementApril 18, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Young journalists, most of them women, from countries without free media are criticizing senior management…
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 4 minute read Why Putin Will Win, RFE/RL President Tom Kent ExplainsMarch 17, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary On March 14, 2018, Tom Kent, President of U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), explained…
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 10 minute read Big names in Georgia sign petition in defense of RFE/RL Georgian ServiceJanuary 30, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Some of the most prominent academics, writers, artists, and human rights activists in Georgia have…
Read More 2 minute read BBG employees blame bosses for poor communication on shutdownJanuary 22, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary Whenever there is any kind of crisis, the management in charge of the Broadcasting Board…
Read More 7 minute read Full Meltdown Mode for Voice of America and BBGNovember 15, 2017 OPINION Full Meltdown Mode Broadcasting Board of Governors and Voice of America: Information War Lost By…
Read More 4 minute read Union explains why BBG remains worst-managed federal agencyNovember 14, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary In two recent posts on its website and Facebook page, the union representing many of…
Read More 11 minute read Voice of America like DNC was strongly for Hillary Clinton against Bernie SandersNovember 5, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) was for Hillary Clinton in 2016, as was the Democratic…
Read More 3 minute read Washingtonian: No worries for Putin from BBG’s “Current Time” RFE/RL and VOA TV channelNovember 3, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is seen by Russia experts as a failure in…
Read More 13 minute read Radio Liberty Fails on Russian InterferenceOctober 31, 2017 OPINION Cold War Radio Museum October 31, 2017 How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn Radio Liberty Fails…
Read More 3 minute read Voice of America reporter has sharp words for TrumpOctober 27, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary One of the senior central English newsroom reporters working for the U.S. taxpayer-funded ($221 million…
Read More 3 minute read Low morale is an existential threat to BBG mission, union saysOctober 20, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary The American Federation of Government Employees union, AFGE Local 1812, representing federal employees at the…
Read More 11 minute read Broadcasting Board of Governors Total Meltdown Part OneOctober 17, 2017 OPINION Total Meltdown Part One By The Federalist These are bad times for the recent political…
Read More 4 minute read BBG workers don’t buy ‘good news’ on morale from CEO LansingOctober 16, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary Rank and file federal employees of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) don’t seem to…
Read More 1 minute read BBG, IBB, and VOA senior bureaucracy protects itself by eliminating ‘administrative vacancies’May 24, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary BBG, IBB, and VOA senior bureaucracy protects itself by eliminating “administrative vacancies” while proposing to…
Read More 7 minute read Maximum Buffoonery at Broadcasting Board of GovernorsMarch 27, 2017 OPINION Maximum Buffoonery US International Media Information War Lost By The Federalist If there is…
Read More 11 minute read A ‘Dear Leader’ Moment at Broadcasting Board of GovernorsMarch 25, 2017 BBG Watch Commentary A ‘Dear Leader’ Moment at Broadcasting Board of Governors Voice of America director Amanda…
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 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 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 7 minute read Inexperienced leaders breed chaos at Broadcasting Board of GovernorsSeptember 28, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) Voice of America (VOA) Video: India Python Swallows Antelope Broadcasting Board…
Read More 6 minute read Voice of America rewrites history on Mao’s murderous ruleSeptember 16, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) and its taxpayer-funded parent agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Read More 20 minute read Voice of America used Putin’s narrative in a Russian report, ignored Biden on WWII historySeptember 6, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America Russian Service has posted a report and video on the 77th…
Read More 9 minute read Broadcasting Board of Governors Needs More Statesmanship, Not SalesmanshipAugust 31, 2016 OPINION This is a guest commentary. Other opinions are welcome. Broadcasting Board of Governors Needs More Statesmanship, Not…
Read More 15 minute read Broadcasting Board of Governors as ‘Temple of Cyber Insecurity’August 24, 2016 OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War: Lost Temple of Cyber Insecurity By The Federalist …
Read More 22 minute read BBG CEO John Lansing warned OIG not to reveal details of BBG massive cyber security lapsesAugust 22, 2016 BBG Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO and Director John Lansing warned the Office of Inspector General…
Read More 4 minute read Voice of America wastes U.S. tax dollars on watermelons for ChinaAugust 19, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary If you are wondering how U.S. taxpayer-funded ($777 million in FY 2017) Broadcasting Board of…
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 17 minute read Obama ignores BBG media in remarks on ISIL propaganda, Voice of America ignores his remarksAugust 9, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Call it getting even by the Voice of America. In a wide-ranging news conference last…
Read More 4 minute read Excellent NYT op-ed on Putin’s propaganda – Broadcasting Board of Governors again not even an afterthoughtAugust 7, 2016 BBG Watch Media Commentary We have gotten used to the U.S. taxpayer-funded Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the…
Read More 10 minute read Voice of America casts doubts Russia was behind Democrats’ emails leakJuly 27, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA) has issued a confusing news report in English to…
Read More 6 minute read ‘Moving Forward, VOA Haunted by Its Past,’ BBG employees’ union saysJuly 22, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary The last few weeks brought more bad news for Voice of America (VOA) employees. This…
Read More 7 minute read The BBG Saga: Leaving On A Jet PlaneJuly 18, 2016 OPINION Broadcasting Board of Governors Information War Lost The BBG Saga: Leaving On A Jet Plane …
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 12 minute read State and White House more honest, less deceptive on Jeff Shell than BBG bureaucracy and VOAJuly 15, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary For the federal agency claiming to uphold the highest journalistic standards abroad, the latest Broadcasting…
Read More 5 minute read EXCLUSIVE Congressional sources call for abolishing the BBG after its bureaucracy bungled BBG Chair’s trip to MoscowJuly 13, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary EXCLUSIVE Senior congressional staffers told BBG Watch that the expulsion of Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Read More 3 minute read BBG Chair Jeff Shell detained and expelled from RussiaJuly 13, 2016 BBG Watch Last night BBG Watch reported that Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) chairman Jeff Shell, BBG CEO…
Read More 8 minute read BBG in Moscow: Russia needs a new and reformed Radio Liberty, a journalist saysJuly 13, 2016 OPINION Introduction by BBG Watch According to unconfirmed reports, Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) chairman Jeff Shell, BBG…
Read More 3 minute read Comments on poor quality video from VOA director’s swearing-in ceremonyApril 22, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Here are a few comments on the poor quality video from Voice of America (VOA)…
Read More 4 minute read Czech Republic Honors Klose, Pechacek, RFE/RL For Defending FreedomMarch 31, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary “Former RFE/RL President Kevin Klose and former RFE/RL Czechoslovak Service director Pavel Pechacek were honored…
Read More 3 minute read BBG digital storage not upgraded in five years – who’s fault is it?March 5, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Digital storage equipment at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which serves the needs of…
Read More 6 minute read VOA and BBG report on the same event, whom do you believe?February 9, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) Deputy Director Jeff Trimble listening to…
Read More 5 minute read New CEO tries to get BBG executives to do their jobsFebruary 8, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary During his few short months on the job, new Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO…