Read More 10 minute read USAGM Official Who Fired Dissident VOA China Journalists Is SuspendedAugust 15, 2020 BBG – USAGM Commentary U.S. Agency for Global Media former Acting CEO and Chief Financial Officer Grant Turner…
Read More 4 minute read Voice Of America Managers Did Not Correct Pro-Biden ErrorsAugust 12, 2020 OPINION By Dan Robinson [EDITOR’S NOTE: As this story was going to press, The New York Post and…
Read More 3 minute read Alleged Cronyism At USAGM Before Michael Pack Exposed By WhistleblowerAugust 8, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary A whistleblower made allegations of widespread cronyism at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM)…
Read More 1 minute read U.S. Agency for Global Media Statement: CEO Pack releases OPM report detailing long-standing USAGM security failuresAugust 4, 2020 CEO Pack releases OPM report detailing long-standing USAGM security failures August 4, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Agency for…
Read More 1 minute read Will Voice of America Biden Video Change How Muslim Americans Vote?July 28, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary This BBGWatch.com (USAGM – BBG Watch) video is about the Voice of America (VOA) Urdu…
Read More 4 minute read SARA CARTER Voice Of America Promoted A Pro-Biden Muslim Political Campaign Ad, Then Removed ItJuly 28, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Sara A. Carter , a national and international award-winning investigative reporter and Fox News contributor,…
Read More 1 minute read Former VOA Director Defends New USAGM Chief Against CriticsJuly 26, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary In an article written for The Stream, Robert R. Reilly, Voice of America (VOA) director…
Read More 4 minute read Former USAGM Management Ignored A Decade of Federal Security Agencies’ Warnings on Hiring Practices at VOA and Other USG Media EntitiesJuly 25, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Speaking on background, U.S. federal government sources told USAGM Watch journalists that former senior officials…
Read More 11 minute read Cancel Culture Silenced Conservative and Moderate Dissent at the Voice of AmericaJuly 19, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary by Ted Lipien There May Be Only One or Two Bari Weisses and Andrew Sullivans…
Read More 8 minute read Need for Better Monitoring and Review of Reporting, Social Media PART FIVEJuly 14, 2020 Need for Better Monitoring and Review of Reporting, Social Media by Dan Robinson Sources have pointed BBG/USAGM Watch…
Read More 2 minute read USAGM Is Reviewing Journalist Visas For Compliance With U.S. Law; Countered NPR ReportJuly 9, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary According to a spokesperson for the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the management is…
Read More 7 minute read VOA Managers Sudden Focus on Balance Coincides With Pack Arrival PART THREEJuly 9, 2020 OPINION VOA Managers Sudden Focus on Balance Coincides With Pack Arrival PART THREE by Dan Robinson There was…
Read More 2 minute read LIPIEN After a decade of extreme bias and foreign propaganda, Voice of America needs a fresh startJuly 6, 2020 OPINION Ted Lipien writes in an Washington Examiner op-ed that the Voice of America (VOA) suffered under the…
Read More 48 minute read Federal Judge Rules in Favor of USAGM CEO Michael Pack, Tells Fired Officials Decision Belongs “At the Ballot Box”July 3, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Federal District Court Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell, appointed by President Barack Obama, ruled in…
Read More 6 minute read USAGM CEO Michael Pack Selected Temporary Acting Managers at VOA, OCB, RFA, MBN and RFE/RLJune 30, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Chief Executive Officer Michael Pack issued a press release…
Read More 11 minute read USAGM Deep State Goes Full Tilt Targeting Pack, Trump PART TWOJune 29, 2020 OPINION USAGM Deep State Goes Full Tilt Targeting Pack, Trump by Dan Robinson Part Two: Full Tilt It’s…
Read More 8 minute read Is There a “Deep State” Supporting USAGM and VOA? PART ONEJune 26, 2020 OPINION Is There a “Deep State” Supporting USAGM and VOA? PART ONE by Dan Robinson Part One: …
Read More 11 minute read United States Agency for Global Media Arrivals and DeparturesJune 22, 2020 OPINION Analyzing US Government International Media United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Arrivals and Departures By The…
Read More 1 minute read USAGM CEO Criticized by Some Conservatives for Firing Jamie Fly and Alberto FernandezJune 19, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary – Review of Media Reactions Please note that USAGM Watch neither represents nor endorses any…
Read More 5 minute read MALONE, BORGIDA, ROBINSON, ANONYMOUS VOA on Letter to Editor About USAGM CEO Michael Pack and Voice of AmericaJune 19, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Two former Voice of America (VOA) reporters Jim Malone and David Borgida wrote in their…
Read More 7 minute read USAGM CEO Michael Pack’s First Days: Political and Media ReactionsJune 18, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary – Review of U.S. Political and Media Reactions Please note that USAGM Watch neither represents…
Read More 2 minute read Reassignments of Managers by New CEO Expected at USAGMJune 17, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Michael Pack, the newly Senate-confirmed CEO of the $800 million mismanaged U.S. Agency for Global…
Read More 3 minute read Voice of America Director Amanda Bennett Says ‘VOA’s protest coverage…nothing short of extraordinary’ as New CEO Starts WorkJune 11, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Michael Pack, President Trump’s appointee to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), was…
Read More 5 minute read U.S. Senate Confirms Michael Pack As Head of USAGMJune 4, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary By Former Voice of America Reporters The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Michael…
Read More 3 minute read Senate Votes to Confirm Michael Pack as USAGM CEOJune 4, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary In a vote nearly completely along party lines, the U.S. Senate confirmed today (June 4,…
Read More 2 minute read Senate Closed Debate on Michael Pack 53-39, Confirmation Vote to FollowJune 4, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary U.S. Senate did not heed Senator Bob Menedez’s (D-NJ) calls and closed debate on the…
Read More 2 minute read Senator McConnell Scheduled Michael Pack USAGM CEO Confirmation Vote for Thursday, June 4June 3, 2020 Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has scheduled the Senate vote on the nomination of Michael Pack to become CEO of the…
Read More 2 minute read Majority Leader Advanced Senate Vote on Michael Pack for USAGM CEOJune 3, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has asked for waiving the mandatory quorum call on…
Read More 3 minute read Journalist counters Tara Sonenshine on U.S. Agency for Global MediaJune 1, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary A journalist writing under open name whom we were able to identify as having decades…
Read More 2 minute read WHITE HOUSE on VOICE OF AMERICA (VOA) Why are US Taxpayers Funding a ‘Voice of the Mullahs’ in Iran?May 28, 2020 USAGM Watch Comentary West Wing Reads page on the WhiteHouse.gov official White House website has a link to…
Read More 3 minute read Odd, Misleading and Marginal News on US Tax-Funded USAGM-Managed Voice of America English HomepageMay 22, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary We are not suggesting that U.S. tax-funded Voice of America (VOA) federally managed by the…
Read More 2 minute read Ranking Member Menendez Statement on Michael PackMay 14, 2020 STATEMENT BY SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ (D-NJ) Ranking Member Menendez Statement on Michael Pack May 14, 2020 WASHINGTON – U.S.…
Read More 9 minute read Tax-Funded Voice of America Shows Almost No #MeToo Interest in Joe Biden and Tara ReadeMay 8, 2020 USAGM Watch Commentary Tax-Funded Voice of America Gave U.S. Voters A Barrage of Russian-style Reporting on Trump and…
Read More 8 minute read Voice of America White House Bureau Chief Steve Herman in Dispute with Vice President Mike Pence’s Staff Previously Banned U.S. Reporters from His VOA Twitter AccountMay 1, 2020 USAGM WATCH COMMENTARY Voice of America (VOA) White House Bureau Chief Steve Herman, who was accused by Vice…
Read More 2 minute read President Trump: What Voice of America Says About America Is “Disgusting”… “A Disgrace”April 15, 2020 USAGM WATCH During his April 15, 2020 White House press briefing, President Donald Trump said that what is…
Read More 4 minute read Former BBG Board Member Reacts to Voice of America Foreign Propaganda Videos During PandemicApril 11, 2020 American radio host and former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Blanquita Cullum has criticized the Voice of…
Read More 5 minute read Clean HouseMarch 31, 2020 OPINION COVID-19 Reaches the Agency By The Federalist The COVID-19 virus outbreak has been felt inside the hallways…
Read More 3 minute read Former U.S. Senator Tom Coburn Who Called BBG ‘Most Worthless’ Dead At 72March 28, 2020 Tom Coburn, former Republican U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Oklahoma and a medical doctor who in a…
Read More 3 minute read Trump Nominates USAGM Board Chair Ken Weinstein To Be Ambassador to JapanMarch 21, 2020 USAGM WATCH COMMENTARY President Trump announced his intent to nominate Kenneth R. Weinstein to be U.S. Ambassador to…
Read More 4 minute read Second NICAR20 attendee tests presumptively positive for coronavirusMarch 16, 2020 USAGM WATCH COMMENTARY Hopefully senior Voice of America (VOA) management has stopped by now all non-essential travel to…
Read More 1 minute read NICAR20 Conference Attendee Tested Positive for COVID-19March 13, 2020 Hopefully senior Voice of America (VOA) management has stopped all non-essential travel to prevent exposure to the COVID-19…
Read More 4 minute read Iran scholars criticize Voice of America managementMarch 8, 2020 With increasing frequency and frustration, Iran scholars and journalists based in the West, as well as anti-regime activists…
Read More 4 minute read Trump Re-Nominates Michael Pack to be CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), formerly BBGFebruary 26, 2020 BBG – USAGM Watch According to a White House announcement on February 25, 2020, President Trump has re-nominated…
Read More 2 minute read Censorship and Propaganda Threats from ChinaFebruary 19, 2020 The internet has no room for tyrants | Column The United States and its allies must act…
Read More 2 minute read Broadcaster and former BBG Governor Blanquita Cullum interviews Trump’s USAGM nominee Michael Pack about Clarence Thomas movieJanuary 25, 2020 BBG Watch – USAGM Commentary Blanquita Cullum has interviewed for her radio program Hard Question on WCGO…
Read More 2 minute read Former top advisor to former U.S. media agency head reports to prisonJanuary 23, 2020 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary Haroon Ullah, former top official in the U.S. Agency for Global Media…
Read More 9 minute read Voice of America tweeted false accusations against Covington students but failed to report on CNN settlementJanuary 21, 2020 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded and U.S. government-managed Voice of America (VOA) English-language news website…
Read More 5 minute read 1 to 7 Likes on Facebook Posts from 912K VOA Extremism Followers — Only at USG Tax-Funded Voice of AmericaJanuary 8, 2020 BBG – USAGM – Watch Commentary In January 2018 former U.S. Agency for Global Media…
Read More 2 minute read Respected DC-based Iranian-born American journalist criticized Voice of America Director and VOA Persian coverage of IranDecember 14, 2019 BBG – USAGM Watch Commentary On December 13, 2019, Mahtab Farid, an Iranian-born American journalist, well respected in…
Read More 1 minute read WP: Counterterrorism expert goes from top government job to prison for faking expense reportsDecember 3, 2019 Counterterrorism expert goes from top government job to prison for faking expense reports, By Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, December…