Edward R. Murrow – A Propaganda Hound
Commentary Ted Lipien, who is one of BBG Watch’s sponsors and supporters, has agreed to write for us…
Digital Journal Op-Ed: Reform needed for U.S. soft power to work
BBG Watch Media “U.S. needs more money for more soft power outreach abroad, but Congress and President must…
Russia propaganda machine gains on U.S. | Washington Times
BBG Watch Media In an interview with The Washington Times, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep.…
Voice of America or Voice of Castro?
BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America or Voice of Castro? While surfing the web, we recently came across…
All About America or mostly What’s Wrong About America on VOA blog?
BBG Watch Commentary When someone in the Middle East discovers by reading the “All About America” Voice of…
Deeper propaganda analysis sometimes missing even from otherwise excellent RFE/RL reports
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalists are capable of excellent reporting. “In Forgotten…
Martial law Poland – Kirk Douglas and Voice of America
By Ted Lipien A few Voice of America English newsroom correspondents and some VOA managers who…
How Frank Sinatra and Voice of America countered communist propaganda
By Ted Lipien Today, December 12, 2015, is Frank Sinatra’s birthday. He would have been…
How Kirk Douglas and Radio Free Europe countered Soviet propaganda
By Ted Lipien Despite gasps of indignation from the Kremlin and quite a few Western fellow travelers who…
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 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)…
JANE DOE: BBG executives to Congress – to fix a bloated bureaucracy you must give it more power
From Joan and Jane Doe BBG executives to Congress – to fix a bloated bureaucracy you must…
RFE/RL claims vigorous response to Russia, former BBG member, others say it is feeble
BBG Watch Observers of U.S. international broadcasting outreach managed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal agency…
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing: Options for Reforming U.S. Overseas Broadcasting
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing: Options for Reforming U.S. Overseas Broadcasting Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 Time: 02:30…
Called ‘traitors’ and ‘Jews’ by Putin supporters, Radio Liberty journalists complain of mistreatment by U.S.-hired management
BBG Watch Commentary WARNING: This post contains a letter by an anonymous Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty…
CUTTING THROUGH THE FOG: AN AUTUMN UPDATE
BBG Watch BBG Watch offers a wide range of commentaries on current issues in U.S. international media outreach,…
Voice of America fails to notice Russian propaganda on WWII history
BBG Watch Commentary Russian ambassador to Poland has implied that Poland, not Hitler and Stalin, was responsible for…
‘A Lie isn’t an Alternative Point of View,’ Lithuanian Foreign Minister Reminds the West
‘A Lie isn’t an Alternative Point of View,’ Lithuanian Foreign Minister Reminds the West Paul Goble Staunton, September…
Domestic news distribution was bad news for VOA
BBG Watch Commentary Not Knowing Its Own History The federal agency in charge of U.S. international media outreach…
BBC Monitoring – How TV propaganda is affecting Russian society
BBG Watch Media According to BBC Monitoring, Russian TV’s relentless propaganda onslaught during the Ukraine crisis has turned…
BBG sleepwalks through RFE/RL crisis
BBG Watch Guest Commentary This commentary was written by a former senior Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) official…
U.S. funded RFE/RL posts a puff piece on an Iranian terrorist
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has reported often on a leadership, management and news handling crisis at the…
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…
Misplaced priorities of BBG Governor
BBG Watch Commentary We could not find any online trace of U.S.taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) paying any…
Does the World Service have a future?
BBG Watch Media The editor of BBC World Service News until earlier this year argues that the funding…
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)…
U.S. Media Outreach to Russia Between Optimism and Despair
BBG Watch Commentary Two recent articles touched upon a little noticed debate over U.S. response to Vladimir Putin’s…
Robert Conquest, WSJ, VOA Russian, RFE/RL, Cat Fashion Show
BBG Watch Commentary The decline of the Voice of America (VOA) as a serious news organization could be…
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…
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)…
Kudos to RFE/RL
BBG Watch Media A Digital Journal op-ed notes that Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is showing courage and practices…
Briefing Memo 5 for New BBG CEO – IBB’s $50 Million Gallup Contract
BBG WATCH EXCLUSIVE BBG Watch has received from a source within the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) a…
Voice of America History – Communist Infiltration During World War II
BBG Watch History During World War II, the Voice of America (VOA) operated within a mega propaganda agency…
U.S. taxpayers can’t afford Voice of America correspondent’s proposal
PHOTO: The power of Russia’s information machine is shown in a Voice of America map in which Crimea…
BBG Governor Weinstein: RFE/RL level of energy-no comparison to five years ago
BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) “multimedia expansion and rapid growth” was the focus of Broadcasting…
The Katyn Massacre Lie and U.S. International Broadcasting
BBG Watch Guest Commentary The Katyń Lie and U.S. International Broadcasting Why did the Voice of…
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’…
OPINION Jeffrey Gedmin: Congress and Obama administration dither over reform of US international broadcasting
BBG Watch Media In an opinion article posted on the Atlantic Council website, former Radio Free Europe /…
Messages of success from BBG Interim CEO & Director André Mendes
BBG Watch According to Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Interim CEO and Director André Mendes, the U.S. taxpayer-funded…
Foreign Affairs Committee passes legislation to reform Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch Commentary Thursday, May 21, 2015, the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed bipartisan legislation to reform…
DAVID JACKSON How to Save the Voice of America
BBG Watch Media Former Voice of America (VOA) director David S. Jackson has published an opinion article on…
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…
VOA and RFE/RL fail to report online in English on Putin’s defense of Nazi-Soviet Pact
BBG Watch Media During the Cold War, both Voice of America (VOA) and particularly Radio Free Europe /…
Op-Ed: Voice of America disappoints
BBG Watch Media “U.S. taxpayer funded Voice of America (VOA) has problems offering timely analysis of Kremlin propaganda,…
Wimbush and Portale respond to Thomas on BBG reform
BBG Watch On April 30, 2015, BBG Watch published an opinion article by a former Voice of America…
Wilson Center Panel on Reform of BBG
BBG Watch The Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy program sponsored a panel discussion on reforming U.S.…