Read More 23 minute read Crossing The LineJune 12, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America – Information War Lost: Crossing The Line By The Federalist The…
Read More 5 minute read Voice of America ignores opening of Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, Angelina Jolie’s speechJune 11, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary In yet another example of mismanagement and violation of its congressional Charter obligation to report…
Read More 5 minute read Austin attacks Reilly, distorts his views on reforming Voice of AmericaJune 10, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Former Voice of America (VOA) Director Dan Austin, who in 2008 ended all direct VOA…
Read More 5 minute read Acting Ukrainian FM meets Voice of America director, Voice of Russia reportsJune 10, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Acting Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Deshchytsya meet with Voice of America Director David Ensor on…
Read More 1 minute read VOA should stop broadcasting Iranian government propaganda back to Iran, satirist writesJune 9, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary One of the funniest, most brilliant satiric articles about the floundering Voice of America (VOA)…
Read More 13 minute read Face OffJune 9, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary International Broadcasting Bureau Go Ahead: Try To Make Us Accountable – Information War Lost: Face…
Read More 7 minute read Taking The Washington Post To TaskJune 9, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Reform of US Government international broadcasting cannot and must not be held hostage by a…
Read More 3 minute read In-house Poroshenko analysis from BBC, DW, RFE/RL – Voice of America uses Reuters with no U.S. angleJune 8, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary It appears that in the current state of mismanagement, Voice of America (VOA) journalists, Vice…
Read More 4 minute read Biden, U.S. Congress delegation not mentioned in VOA video report from UkraineJune 8, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Even though the VOA Charter requires the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America to “present the…
Read More 13 minute read Voice of America to target Americans despite ban on funding domestic news distribution, critics sayJune 2, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary In a politically unwise press release, which according to critics at best violates the spirit…
Read More 7 minute read Thumbs Down On “All Hands”June 1, 2014 International Broadcasting Bureau – Just Call Us “Waste Unlimited!” – Information War Lost: Thumbs Down On “All Hands”…
Read More 32 minute read Voice of America gives Obama – Poroshenko meeting announcement two sentencesJune 1, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Rudderless and floundering Voice of America (VOA) English News devoted only two sentences to the…
Read More 4 minute read The VOA Mission: Long May It Wave – AFGE Local 1812 Editorial on VOA CharterMay 31, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary We repost an editorial from the union representing federal employees of the Broadcasting Board of…
Read More 6 minute read Snowballs in ArizonaMay 26, 2014 International Broadcasting Bureau – Maintaining Dysfunctional and Defunct is Our Most Important Business – Information War Lost: Snowballs…
Read More 2 minute read Voice of America more than 4 hours behind BBC in reporting on death of JaruzelskiMay 25, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary The U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA), which once offered breaking international news coverage and…
Read More 6 minute read House passage of Hitler-Stalin Pact ‘Black Ribbon Day’ bill ignored by Voice of America, mismanagement continuesMay 24, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary With Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Matt Armstrong calling House Foreign Affairs Committee bipartisan…
Read More 7 minute read Armstrong Going Off The Script: Calling H.R. 4490 ‘less than inarticulate’May 23, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary International Broadcasting Bureau – Onward With Dysfunctional and Defunct! Information War Lost: Armstrong Going Off…
Read More 8 minute read Misplaced Sense of EntitlementMay 22, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary We present yet another opinion on the bipartisan reform bill, the United States International Communications Reform Act…
Read More 15 minute read California paper picks up Miami Herald report on OCB journalists’ latest legal victoryMay 21, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary The Sacramento Bee newspaper picked up a Miami Herald report by Juan O Tamayo on…
Read More 3 minute read Deutsche Welle does Voice of America’s reporting job on Hunter Biden and UkraineMay 21, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America (VOA) English website did not have a news report on Hunter…
Read More 5 minute read RFE/RL praised for StoryMap, multimedia reporting comparisons with VOA and DWMay 20, 2014 Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) “made this brilliant interactive map of Moscow’s coercive diplomacy using the open source…
Read More 6 minute read The Blame GameMay 19, 2014 International Broadcasting Bureau – We Don’t Know Anything But Dysfunctional And Defunct – Information War Lost: The Blame…
Read More 4 minute read NYT with 11.8M Twitter followers worries, VOA News with 103K behind UN Peacekeeping with 119KMay 18, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary According to BuzzFeed article, “Exclusive: New York Times Internal Report Painted Dire…
Read More 5 minute read ‘America doesn’t need varnished truth’ by Al Pessin in The Hill blog, and BBG Watch commentaryMay 16, 2014 Al Pessin, a senior Voice of America foreign correspondent, currently based in London, posted this commentary in one…
Read More 4 minute read RSF: US SHOULD NOT ADOPT “INFORMATION WARFARE” APPROACHMay 16, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary “We urge the US authorities not to transform media such as Voice of America, Radio…
Read More 15 minute read First ever bill to defund Voice of America for violations of VOA Charter and mismanagementMay 14, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Never in the history of the Voice of America (VOA) under its numerous past directors…
Read More 5 minute read Russia’s RT retweets on Voice of America website draw criticism from former BBG membersMay 12, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Two former Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) members have criticized Voice of America (VOA) practice…
Read More 6 minute read BBG can be proud of its journalists working under defunct bureaucracyMay 11, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Not all is defunct at the Voice of America (VOA) and the Broadcasting Board of…
Read More 8 minute read Extraordinary MeasuresMay 11, 2014 International Broadcasting Bureau – Adding Disinformation to Dysfunctional and Defunct – Information War Lost: Extraordinary Measures By The…
Read More 2 minute read National Geographic article warning about RT tweets, sometimes used by Voice of AmericaMay 11, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary WARNING – The article quotes an obscenity. In an National Geographic article “The Twitter War: Social Media’s…
Read More 3 minute read A New Voice of America, Wall Street Journal EditorialMay 6, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch reported today that “in contrast to other Western broadcasters, such as BBC and…
Read More 4 minute read The Hill on propaganda fears and reform of bureaucracy in charge of Voice of AmericaMay 4, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary A report in The Hill, which focuses on a bipartisan bill to reform U.S. international…
Read More 7 minute read Voice of America Director David Ensor explains what press freedom means to him – BBG Watch Multimedia AnalysisMay 1, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Ahead of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Voice of America Director David Ensor…
Read More 4 minute read House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce calls for reduction and reform of U.S. international media bureaucracyApril 30, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) said that U.S. broadcasters – the Voice of America, Radio Free…
Read More 5 minute read Voice of America failed to report on Obama’s statement on canonization of John XXIII and John Paul IIApril 28, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary The Voice of America failed to report Monday on President Obama’s statement on the Canonization…
Read More 9 minute read Major reform of U.S. international broadcasting and public diplomacy to be proposed in CongressApril 28, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary BBG Watch has learned that a draft bill originating in the House Foreign Affairs Committee,…
Read More 10 minute read Is Voice of America hobbling along? – Ariel Cohen, Blanquita Cullum, David Ensor, Dan Robinson respondApril 21, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary At the Heritage Foundation panel discussion today (April 21, 2014) on “Propaganda, Disinformation, and Dirty…
Read More 10 minute read Step Up!April 3, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary With their usual tact and people skills that have made them one of the worst…
Read More 7 minute read OP-ED – ROBINSON – TRANSFORMATION IS UPON US: HANDWRITING IS ON THE WALLMarch 25, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary In a long-anticipated Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, officials appointed by the Broadcasting Board of…
Read More 5 minute read Zombies at IBB – VOA Federal AgencyMarch 20, 2014 Commentary Executives running the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) and the Voice of America (VOA) federal agency are a…
Read More 6 minute read Dan Robinson’s RetirementMarch 7, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Dan Robinson’s retirement from Voice of America (VOA) is as regrettable as it was avoidable.…
Read More 5 minute read The Russian Front: The Crimean Offensive 2014 – Part TwoMarch 5, 2014 International Broadcasting Bureau – Vigorously Branding Dysfunctional and Defunct – Information War Lost: The Russian Front: The Crimean Offensive 2014 –…
Read More 12 minute read At BBG meeting, members may evaluate how VOA executives responded to earlier Board questions and concernsFebruary 25, 2014 BBG Board Meeting, February 25, 2014, will be held at Middle East Broadcasting Networks in Springfield, VA. It…
Read More 5 minute read THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE VOICE OF AMERICAFebruary 21, 2014 The Voice of America (VOA) failed to report yesterday on a phone call between U.S. Vice President Joe…
Read More 15 minute read VOA English News ignores Kerry talking about media freedom with Chinese bloggersFebruary 17, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Voice of America (VOA) top executive David Ensor likes to brag that VOA “uses social…
Read More 4 minute read Even Voice of Russia offers more substance on Hollande-Obama news conference today than Voice of AmericaFebruary 11, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary Even Voice of Russia provided more substantial news reporting today on Obama-Hollande news conference than…
Read More 4 minute read ‘THE IMPLAUSIBLE MISSION’ – BBG employees’ union on massive violations of VOA Charter by VOA and IBB executivesFebruary 11, 2014 ‘THE IMPLAUSIBLE MISSION’ is the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees’ union commentary on massive violations of the…
Read More 10 minute read VOA English news, most language services ignore violent anti-corruption protests in BosniaFebruary 10, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary News reporting failures at the Voice of America (VOA) are so frequent and so numerous…
Read More 8 minute read Madonna and Pussy Riot in NY on Putin get 0 reports on VOA English news site, Justin Bieber gets 6February 6, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary As of late afternoon Thursday, February 6, the Voice of America (VOA) English news website…
Read More 3 minute read Voice of America fails to report on yet another phone call between U.S. Vice President Biden and Ukraine’s President YanukovychFebruary 5, 2014 BBG Watch Commentary In yet another of a long string of news reporting failures, the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice…