Read More 3 minute read USAGM CEO told critics to go awayJune 12, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary More than a year ago U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) CEO John…
Read More 5 minute read German public radio reports on RFE/RL posting authoritarian propagandaMay 25, 2019 BBG Watch Commentary German domestic’s public radio Deutschlandfunk reported recently on widespread accusations made by independent journalists against…
Read More 6 minute read Journalist Assem Tokayeva says RFE/RL management tolerates nationalist broadcastsMay 19, 2018 BBG Watch Commentary A former RFE/RL editor says that the U.S.-funded and U.S. government-run news site promotes Hitler…
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 4 minute read Crude RT Kremlin propaganda virus infects Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty English news siteDecember 16, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch had reported how Voice of America English news website was picking up RT…
Read More 12 minute read Imperial arrogance: Voice of America executives pay little attention to foreign leaders Obama calls about UkraineMarch 10, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary When something happens in Washington after business hours, there is a good chance mismanaged U.S.…
Read More 6 minute read Czech Senator, former journalist, appeals to Secretary Kerry to ensure equal rights for all RFE/RL employeesJuly 23, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary In an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, a member of the…
BBG FM rebroadcasting in Mauritania, but where is human rights reporting by Voice of America?June 29, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary We are not saying that local rebroadcasts are always a bad idea, far from it,…
Read More 4 minute read Human rights activists call for reform of Radio Liberty programs to KazakhstanMay 7, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary While the attention of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Radio Free Europe /…
Radio Free Asia responds to freedom of the press findings with a defense of its unique missionMay 2, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary A Radio Free Asia (RFA) press release shows how surrogate broadcasting, which International Broadcasting Bureau…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Boston, Chechnya, KazakhstanMay 2, 2013 Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable – Boston, Chechnya, Kazakhstan by The Federalist …
Read More 6 minute read Bulat Atabayev – Radio Liberty Kazakh Service stopped radio programs and became a tabloid websiteApril 6, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary Prominent Kazakh theater director and former political prisoner Bulat Atabayev joined other Kazakh opposition leaders…
Kazakh political prisoner is unhappy with Radio Liberty programsMarch 28, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary “By the way, it turns out that Azattyq (RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service) programs have drastically declined.…
Read More 6 minute read U.S. media on failing revenge of Washington bureaucracy at Broadcasting Board of GovernorsFebruary 6, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary When one hears of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comment that the Broadcasting Board…
Steven Korn condemns media critics of his soon-to-end tenure as RFE/RL presidentJanuary 24, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary The outgoing Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) president and CEO Steven Korn, whose resignation becomes…
Russian Service is not the only victim of management actions at RFE/RLJanuary 23, 2013 BBG Watch Commentary A commentary sent to BBG Watch by a journalist whose articles have been published on…
Risky business – BBG employees in solidarity with fired Radio Liberty colleaguesDecember 16, 2012 The following commentary was posted on the AFGE Local 1812 website of the union representing BBG employees: Risky…
Steven Korn to leave RFE/RL within 45 days, sources sayDecember 16, 2012 BBG Watch Commentary According to sources inside the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) headquarters, at a meeting in…
CUSIB Executive Director Ann Noonan Speaks at BBG Meeting, Demands Reinstatement of Fired Radio Liberty JournalistsDecember 14, 2012 In addressing the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) open board meeting in Washington on Friday, the Committee for…
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is starting to look more like Playboy and National EnquirerDecember 8, 2012 BBG Watch Commentary Sexually suggestive videos and racy photos — Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is changing its…
Read More 7 minute read Radio Liberty offers young Kazakh Muslims American-style videos with sexual content, causes outrageDecember 3, 2012 BBG Watch Commentary “I don’t understand why RFE/RL produced these obscene videos using American taxpayers’ money.” — Kazakh…
Breaking News – Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty Board plans to hear directly from fired Radio Liberty journalistsNovember 28, 2012 BBG Watch Commentary Members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Board of Directors…
BBG Strategy and Budget Committee to discuss Radio Liberty in RussiaOctober 30, 2012 According to an officials announcement on the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) website, the BBG Strategy and Budget…