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 3 minute read David Satter on reforming U.S. media outreach to RussiaAugust 17, 2016 BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE In an exclusive interview with BBG Watch, U.S. journalist, author and Russia expert David Satter…
Read More 5 minute read David Satter on U.S. international media reformAugust 17, 2016 BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE In an exclusive interview with BBG Watch, U.S. journalist, author and Russia expert David Satter…
Read More 8 minute read BBG Channelling from Bad to WorseAugust 15, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) newsroom is now slightly faster, if not vastly better, in…
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 5 minute read Voice of America for Trump in a Russian puff videoAugust 10, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary A number of former and current Voice of America (VOA) journalists, including both…
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 4 minute read CEPA: Winning the information war with Russia – BBG not even an afterthoughtAugust 3, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), a transatlantic think tank based in Washington and…
Read More 3 minute read Russia using history as propaganda, Polish FM warnsAugust 2, 2016 BBG Watch Russia using history as propaganda, Polish FM warns By Ted Lipien In an…
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 8 minute read Hillary Clinton on BBG and Voice of AmericaJuly 24, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary With the 2016 Democratic National Convention (July 25-28) getting underway Monday to nominate the former…
Read More 8 minute read BBG bureaucracy successful in covering up its bungling of Jeff Shell’s trip to Russia, conflict of interest issuesJuly 22, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary The failing bureaucracy of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has been largely successful so…
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 5 minute read “Слабость Запада” : Why Americans Fall for Kremlin PropagandaJuly 14, 2016 BBG Watch Guest Commentary Because of some of their unique national traits, quite a few Americans, including younger…
Read More 6 minute read BBG Chair Jeff Shell’s expulsion from Russia points to US bureaucratic failureJuly 14, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary While all the facts are not yet in, one thing is certain: bureaucrats of the…
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 4 minute read Voice of America English News takes nearly 4 hours to report on Obama-Putin phone callJuly 7, 2016 BBG Watch According to the time stamp on the Voice of America (VOA News) English report posted online…
Read More 6 minute read Voice of America Turkey and EU headlines could have been written by RTJune 29, 2016 OPINION VOA Should Quote Experts, Not Mix News With Commentary By Ted Lipien Voice of America…
Read More 8 minute read LIPIEN OP-ED: Robert E. Sherwood on avoiding election coverage bias at Voice of AmericaJune 15, 2016 OPINION Robert E. Sherwood on avoiding election coverage bias at Voice of America By Ted Lipien I disagree…
Read More 2 minute read PAUL GOBLE US Sending the Wrong Signals to Peoples of Russia by Not Sending Them at AllJune 7, 2016 BBG Watch America’s top expert on Kremlin propaganda Paul Goble said that the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG),…
Read More 6 minute read Even when ‘Federal websites can spill over into propaganda’ – BBG is ignoredJune 5, 2016 BBG Watch Media “Websites operate in broadcast fashion: We publish, you read. We’ll allow feedback at our discretion.…
Read More 6 minute read Optimistic BBG plans to eliminate RFE/RL Radio Liberty shortwave radio transmissions to Russia, Crimea, other Russian-speaking regionsJune 1, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Russian Service of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) posted an announcement on its…
Read More 1 minute read Op-Ed: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty can’t cope with Putin propagandaMay 9, 2016 BBG Watch Media Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum and British journalist Edward Lucas assert in a Washington Post…
Read More 3 minute read “Who Is Mr. Putin?” U.S. and English-language film premiere with reporter Anastasia Kirilenko fired by RFE/RLApril 25, 2016 BBG Watch Anastasia Kirilenko, a reporter who investigated Vladimir Putin and was fired last year by RFE/RL, is…
Read More 6 minute read Excellent reporting by Voice of America Russian Service journalistsApril 22, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA), which now has new director, Amanda Bennett, is still capable…
Read More 4 minute read What else Voice of America employees want new director to know?April 21, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary What Else Voice of America Employees Want Amanda Bennett To Know? Current and Former VOA…
Read More 7 minute read BBG meets with Secretary Kerry, gets praise despite anti-Israel, pro-Putin messagingApril 20, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary According to Secretary Kerry, “Today’s Broadcasting Board of Governors is not the BBG of a…
Read More 2 minute read RFE/RL competes with SPUTNIK and RT in promoting Putin humorApril 14, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary During the Cold War, U.S. government-funded Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was providing translation of…
Read More 3 minute read Correcting Voice of America historyApril 10, 2016 BBG Watch Former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director, Ted Lipien, who earlier in his VOA career…
Read More 2 minute read VOA’s Zimbabwe Service Partners With ICIJ, But Not VOA News or RFE/RLApril 6, 2016 BBG Watch Of all the U.S. taxpayer supported Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) media outlets, only the Voice…
Read More 2 minute read Ran it through what?, VOAApril 3, 2016 BBG Watch “How can someone look at that headline and not see there is a problem?,” a Voice…
Read More 15 minute read RFE/RL as Radio Free Kremlin, Not An April Fools Day JokeApril 1, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary This is not an April Fools Day Joke, as much as we wished it to…
Read More 4 minute read Sloppy Voice of America on first name basis with President ObamaMarch 30, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Sloppiness, lack of leadership and lack of editorial control have reached new levels at the…
Read More 4 minute read Voice of America Russian reporter with Obama in Cuba found an admirer of Vladimir PutinMarch 24, 2016 BBG Commentary A reporter with the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) Russian Service who was in Cuba…
Read More 9 minute read Travel journalism from VOA reporters in CubaMarch 23, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary With often shaky, poor quality video and mostly pedestrian observations, much of original reporting by…
Read More 5 minute read Puzzling press release from RFE/RL about its Moscow bureauMarch 20, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a U.S. taxpayer-funded international media outlet based in…
Read More 5 minute read Crimea annexation anniversary: How BBG and VOA initially helped to advance Putin’s narrativeMarch 18, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Russian President Vladimir Putin travelled to Crimea on Friday to mark the second anniversary of…
Read More 3 minute read Widow of Russian Ex-spy Calls His Poisoning ‘State-sponsored Crime’ | Voice of AmericaMarch 16, 2016 BBG Watch While this Voice of America report could have mentioned that Vladimir Putin is an ex-KGB spy,…
Read More 4 minute read Some in Congress fuming over BBG lobbying for status quo EXCLUSIVEFebruary 25, 2016 BBG Watch EXCLUSIVE Some members of Congress are angry at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), its board…
Read More 4 minute read Congress to BBG: You are a ‘Broken Agency’February 23, 2016 BBG Watch This press release was posted today on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs website. This…
Read More 2 minute read ‘Russia And Me’ — Lessons From Those Who Know Russia Best – RFE/RL Press ReleaseFebruary 18, 2016 BBG Watch U.S. taxpayer-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has conducted exclusive interviews with leaders who…
Read More 23 minute read David Satter on VOA: Russia needs ‘Truth Commission’ to investigate crimes of post-Soviet leadersFebruary 15, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Overheard in Washington Announcement on New VOA Director Expected Soon Under new leadership…
Read More 10 minute read Reform Radio Liberty or Continue to Lose Propaganda War with RussiaFebruary 10, 2016 EXCLUSIVE OPINION for BBG Watch Reform Radio Liberty or Continue to Lose Propaganda War with Russia By Zygmunt…
Read More 2 minute read BBG WATCH SENATOR CORKER PUTIN CORRUPTION VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT BASED ON VOA INTERVIEWFebruary 2, 2016 BBG Watch ALSO SEE: VOA News ignored Senator Corker on Putin corruption, BBG Watch, February 2, 2016 …
Read More 8 minute read VOA News ignored Senator Corker on Putin corruptionFebruary 2, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (English) News Omits Senator Corker’s Comments on Putin Corruption Voice of…
Read More 5 minute read Voice of America English News fails to report online White House spokesman confirming ‘Putin is corrupt’January 29, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America’s VOA Central English Newsroom failed to report on its main…
Read More 6 minute read BBC investigates corruption by Putin, where were Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America?January 27, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary Rather than interviewing U.S. officials about corruption charges leveled against Vladimir Putin, Voice of America…
Read More 8 minute read Radio Liberty Gave No Support To Investigative ReportersJanuary 25, 2016 BBG Watch Commentary INTRODUCTION: In Russia, journalists who run afoul of the Kremlin or the business mafia, end…