Annette Lantos pleads with Broadcasting Board of Governors to save Voice of America broadcasts

Apr 12, 2012 Comments Off by

Annette Lantos, the wife of the late Congressman Tom Lantos, has joined efforts to oppose the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) proposals to cut Voice of America (VOA) services, the independent, nongovernmental Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting reported today on its website www.cusib.org. Mrs. Lantos’s April 4, 2012 letter to the BBG begins: “I write [...]

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Director Bruce Sherman on Broadcasting Board of Governors’ killing of Voice of America brand-name

Apr 12, 2012 1 Comment by

BBG Watch Commentary Why is the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) trying to silence Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts to Tibet when Tibetan Buddhist monks are self-immolating to shock the conscience of the world and the Chinese government is increasing its repression of the Tibetan people and their culture? Why are the Voice of [...]

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Broadcasting Board of Governors ignores Congress

Apr 04, 2012 1 Comment by

A guest commentary by Edite Lynch “Purging” as it is being applied to what is happening to the Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts is a correct term because the term itself is very closely allied with what totalitarian governments, like communists, autocrats, or imperial Presidents do when they feel threatened by any group of people [...]

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Broadcasting Board of Governors misleads Congress on shortwave radio reception in China

Mar 26, 2012 Comments Off

BBG Watch has learned that Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) executives were on Capitol Hill last week trying to convince Congressional staffers that Voice of America shortwave radio broadcasts to China are a waste of money. As it is usual for these BBG bureaucrats, they presented incomplete and misleading evidence, a well-informed source told us. [...]

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Something rotten in the state of the BBG

Mar 25, 2012 Comments Off

A guest commentary by Edite Lynch The continued flow of information from people in the know concerning the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and concurrently the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) is cause for grave concern about continued American strategic, public diplomacy and humanitarian interests in various countries in the world especially, countries like Tibet where [...]

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