by The Federalist As we already know, as part of the administration’s FY2013 budget, the Broadcasting Board of Governors and International Broadcasting Bureau (BBG/IBB) want to destroy 33% of Voice of America (VOA) language services, totally or in part. The list of services affected has already been identified in other commentaries and won’t be [...]
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency which runs the Voice of America broadcasts and other U.S. government-funded news and information programs for overseas audiences, does not like Cantonese-language radio and TV, and neither does the communist regime in Beijing. The BBG is proposing to eliminate all Voice of America Cantonese-language programs. Meanwhile, [...]
Several recent media reports point to serious problems at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), its Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts to Iran and VOA Russian website. Russian Accuses Voice Of America Of Fake Interview by MICHELE KELEMEN Critics blame the overall culture of mismanagement and contempt for rank-and-file journalists by a small group of [...]
Ted Lipien, a former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director, has been warning for some time that marketing and staffing policies pushed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) executives have changed the focus of VOA and other BBG broadcasters from serious, accurate and well balanced journalism to ratings-chasing entertainment and sloppy reporting produced [...]
NPR’s Michele Kelemen, a former employee of Voice of America, reported on the recent VOA Russian Service interview with a leading Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny which he later described as “100 percent fake” and complained that VOA “went nuts.” The fake interview may have been created by Kremlin supporters who have been known to [...]
