THAT PESKY CONGRESS: THWARTING ATTEMPTS BY THE BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND ITS EXECUTIVE STAFF TO SHUT DOWN VOA by Quo Vadis Year after fiscal year, members of Congress in bipartisan fashion, question the plans of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and its powerful Executive Staff to eviscerate the Voice of America. Since [...]
RIF REDUX: PURGING OF THE VOICE OF AMERICA BY THE BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND ITS EXECUTIVE STAFF by Quo Vadis The recent and most devastating Reduction-in-Force proposed by Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) in the FY-2013 budget is the latest in a series of frontal attacks against the basic mission of the Voice of America. [...]
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP: TO PUT ITS BEST FACE FORWARD, THE IBB RUNS COSMETICS CLASSES by Quo Vadis An early April Fools’ joke? Classes in “outer beauty” as part of “Taking care of yourself from the inside out” in an Agency whose employees face a sweeping loss of 200+ positions in the upcoming Reduction in Force (RIF)? [...]
CACOPHONY AT COHEN CONTINUUM: Dance of the Comedians by Quo Vadis In November 2011, at a forum sponsored by the Public Diplomacy Council and reported on by Adam Clayton Powell III, participants heard that the newest 2011 VOA audience figures showed an increase of 22 million for the international broadcasting audience in comparison with 2010. [...]
THE VOA ANNIVERSARY WALTZ: LA DANSE MACABRE? by Quo Vadis For the past 10-15 years, as annual budget time nears, there’s a haunting presence in the halls of the Voice of America, call it, if you will, Mme La Guillotine furtively hovering in the background as broadcasters wonder whether this year it will be [...]
