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Senate Committee to BBG: Hands off China Broadcasting — Dr. Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation

Sep 30, 2011 1 Comment by

Dr. Helle Dale of the Heritage Foundation, who keeps a close eye on the Broadcasting Board of Governors and U.S. international broadcasting, noted in the foundation’s blog that the Senate Committee on Appropriations put a break this week on the BBG’s plans to end Voice of America radio and television broadcasts to China. Pointing out [...]

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Don’t junk critical leverage over Beijing — John Lenczowski on VOA in China

Sep 29, 2011 Comments Off by

Silencing VOA programming would end U.S. support for China’s freedom. John Lenczowski, who as President Reagan’s Soviet affairs adviser was instrumental in increasing funding for Voice of America and Radio Free Europe broadcasts to Poland during Solidarity’s struggle for democracy, wrote in a Washington Times op-ed that by proposing to end VOA radio and TV [...]

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BBG's Internet Only Strategy Loses Audience and Fails in Russia

Mar 02, 2011 1 Comment by

All Americans, including members of Congress, should watch this disturbing but highly informative video.  It shows a group of remarkable journalists from the Voice of America Mandarin and Cantonese radio, TV, and Internet services directing pointed questions to VOA Director Dan Austin and making persuasive arguments against  the BBG decision to end all on-the-air radio news broadcasting in their languages to China.  [...]

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Sound of Hope Plans to Increase Shortwave Radio to China while Voice of America Retreats

Mar 01, 2011 Comments Off

FreeMediaOnline.org Part Two — Special Report: Sound of Hope Plans to Increase Shortwave Radio to China while Voice of America Retreats  — Read Part One: No Apology for Failure While officials of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) tell members of Congress that shortwave radio in China is dead and announce plans to terminate all [...]

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China detains, censors bloggers on 'Jasmine Revolution'

Mar 01, 2011 Comments Off

New York, February 25, 2011–China’s censors tightened Internet controls and security officials harassed and detained writers and activists in the wake of an online appeal for a “Jasmine Revolution” in China, according to international human rights groups and news reports.

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