HISTORY WWII Voice of America Communist Propaganda to Yugoslavia
Ted Lipien for Cold War Radio Museum Thanks to several lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, the U.S. Congress…
Ed Royce on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads
OPINION Issues in the News: Royce Report on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads U.S. International Media:…
WFB: House Foreign Affairs Committee uncovered new spate of management failures at USAGM and VOA
BBG Watch Media Commentary A new report by Susan Crabtree in The Washington Free Beacon provides additional details…
Voice of America Persian Service targeted Americans with illegal Facebook ads
BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
Congress exposes repeated violations of Smith-Mundt Act in USAGM agency’s Facebook ads targeting Americans
BBG Watch Commentary The review by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…
USAGM CEO John Lansing ignored early warnings of ads targeting Americans
BBG Watch Commentary U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO John Lansing, who had been appointed in 2015 during…
Kenneth Timmerman: Toxic Culture At Voice Of America Exposed In Discrimination Lawsuit
BBG Watch Commentary Kenneth R. Timmerman, an investigative journalist, Republican political activist, president of Foundation for Democracy in…
Brief History of VOA’s Domestic Propaganda
OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn Brief History of VOA’s Domestic Propaganda…
Facebook, Russia, Trump – Did Voice of America violate U.S. laws?
BBG Watch Commentary As reported by The Washington Post and others, Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it…
Washington Post Enabling BBG Dysfunction With A Dysfunctional Message
Commentary Washington Post Enabling BBG Dysfunction With A Dysfunctional Message Broadcasting Board of Governors: Information War Lost By…
LIPIEN OP-ED: Robert E. Sherwood on avoiding election coverage bias at Voice of America
OPINION Robert E. Sherwood on avoiding election coverage bias at Voice of America By Ted Lipien I disagree…
U.S. tax-funded Voice of America joins anti-Donald Trump electioneering
BBG Watch Media A journalist working as a U.S. government employee for the taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA)…
Closed meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors
BBG Watch The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has posted a closed meeting notice to meet the…
The Keogh Memorandum – Voice of America and U.S. Policy
BBG Watch History Documents & Quotes Series BBG Watch begins today publishing historical documents, some of…
Journalist analyzes Matt Armstrong buzzwords
BBG Watch Commentary A former Voice of America senior correspondent has sent us an analysis of a recent…
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…
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…
75th Anniversary of Sumner Welles Declaration – U.S. Public Diplomacy from Success to Failure at BBG
BBG Watch Commentary This week marked the 75th anniversary of the Welles Declaration, one of the most powerful…
Inner City Press journalist reports on nomination to BBG, blames VOA officials
BBG Watch Commentary An independent American journalist who complains of being targeted by officials of the dysfunctional, U.S.…
New Year’s Message for Ukraine from Quincy Jones — New Year’s Demonstration in Turkey — But Nothing From Voice of America
BBG Watch Commentary Message for Ukraine from Quincy Jones — New Year’s Eve Demonstration in Turkey — But…
Don’t worry, be happy – IBB government employee responds to Smith-Mundt questions as a private blogger
BBG Watch Commentary Kim Andrew Elliott is a government employee at the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) who claims…
The Daily Beast gets it wrong – U.S. taxpayers’ money can now be used to provide news to Americans but controversy lingers
BBG Watch Commentary The Daily Beast article, “The Story Behind That Incredibly Riveting Video of the D.C. Car…
Voice of America is late in posting news stories, gets pummeled by BBC, Russia Today and Al Jazeera in social media engagement
BBG Watch Commentary Consequences of allowing the worst management team in the federal government to continue to run…
From defunct to ridiculous – how IBB officials are ruining good name of U.S. international broadcasting
BBG Watch Commentary It did not occur to International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) bureacrats that Americans might not like…
Voice of America management burdens its own broadcasters with getting programs ready for domestic distribution
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA), U.S. taxpayer-funded international broadcaster can barely adequately cover news for…
Voice of America partially removes misleading language about domestic use of its programs
BBG Watch Commentary In a victory by critics against government officials trying to claim new powers which they…
Senate Foreign Relations Committee cleared nominations of Shell, Crocker, and Armstrong for BBG board
BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which holds jurisdiction over all…
How a story of Somali Americans in Minnesota gave U.S. government new domestic media powers
BBG Watch Commentary We have all heard this story told countless times by International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) and…
Former Voice of America journalist says U.S. officials are losing information war abroad
BBG Watch Commentary Former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director and journalist Ted Lipien wrote in a…
Smith-Mundt controversy hurting U.S. international broadcasting
BBG Watch Commentary Contrary to assurances by International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) executives that the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of…
Heritage Foundation’s Helle Dale, others call for greater scrutiny of officials in charge of U.S. broadcasts
From John Brown’s Public Diplomacy Review, July 15-19, 2013. “Propaganda is a pejorative term …” —Broadcasting Board of…
The Agency of Domestic Invasive Activity – Information War Lost – The Standard for Dysfunctional and Defunct in the Federal Government – International Broadcasting Bureau
The Agency of Domestic Invasive Activity – Information War Lost – The Standard for Dysfunctional and Defunct in…
After ruining VOA’s reputation and bipartisan support with their mishandling of Smith-Mundt, IBB executives are pushing for de-federalization
BBG Watch Commentary Top executives at the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) have caused major damage to the Voice…
Transcripts show IBB official and others were not concerned with public reaction to Smith-Mundt propaganda ban repeal
BBG Watch Commentary One of our readers left a comment for an earlier post, in which he points…
Factual NBC report on lifting Smith-Mundt propaganda ban generates many comments from irate U.S. taxpayers
BBG Watch Commentary Elizabeth Chuck, a staff writer for NBC News, wrote a good, factual report on the…
Propaganda galore – Voice of America’s reputation undermined by media reports – IBB bureaucrats say they are not to blame
BBG Watch Commentary It is never the fault of International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) officials. If there is a…
Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting Rejects Recommendations in S. Enders Wimbush’s WSJ Op-Ed
The following statement was posted on the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – cusib.org) website in response…
Foreign Policy article with IBB propaganda on the Smith-Mundt Act challenged by former Voice of America journalist
BBG Watch Commentary Foreign Policy magazine published in its online National Security section an article written by Prof.…
RT 14,189 – VOA 44 – Social media disaster for Voice of America news continues against Russia Today, others
BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) English news website continues to show disastrously poor social media…
International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) government officials achieved what KGB couldn’t, made Americans believe Voice of America is a propaganda outfit
BBG Watch Commentary Initiated by government bureaucracy, the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act is ruining Voice of America’s reputation for…
Op-Ed: US propaganda ban overturned with help of government propaganda
Commentary Former Voice of America(VOA) acting associate director Ted Lipien argues in an op-ed in Digital Journal that…
More Words and Their Stories – The New Standard for Defunct in the Federal Government – Information War Lost – International Broadcasting Bureau
More Words and Their Stories – The New Standard for Defunct in the Federal Government – Information War…
I’m Not Afraid of Voice of America News in the U.S., But . . .
I’m Not Afraid of Voice of America News in the U.S., But . . . a commentary by…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Dysfunctional, Defunct and Not Getting Any Better – Failure Compounded
EDITOR’S NOTE: BBG Watch strongly supports the concept of all BBG programs fully paid for by American taxpayers…
U.S. officials promoting media freedom abroad censor information for American public
BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. government’s International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB)–the administrative arm of the Broadcasting Board of Governors…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Bluster
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Bluster by The Federalist The Congress has thrown a bone…
Repeal of Smith-Mundt is good for media freedom, but Americans must be wary of government bureaucrats marketing news domestically
BBG Watch Commentary Commenting on the defense authorization bill that President Obama signed last night, which includes a…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Shorts
Broadcasting Board of Governors – Shorts by The Federalist Well, it is August after all and even the…
Broadcasting Board of Governors – two silly ideas that went nowhere
It seems that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) staff has been quite busy up on the “Hill”…
Broadcasting Board of Governors Being Unnoticed
Broadcasting Board of Governors Being Unnoticed A commentary by The Federalist You know where we’re coming from: we…