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 [...]
BBG Watch News Commentary Rep. Walter B. Jones (R-NC) is asking the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to modernize the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station in Greenville, North Carolina, but sources tell us that his request is not likely to receive a favorable response from the current BBG executives who earlier had wanted to close [...]
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) chairman Walter Isaacson has modified some of his positions on the reorganization of U.S. international broadcasting in response to criticism and pressure from individuals and groups opposed to limiting public ownership and control of U.S. Government’s journalistic communications with foreign audiences. The BBG open meeting in Washington, DC on [...]
Two Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) officials described by BBG Watch sources as chief architects of the failed BBG plan to end Voice of America (VOA) radio and TV broadcasts to China have been rewarded with new positions. The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) Director Richard Lobo named Bruce Sherman as director of a newly-formed Office of Strategy and Development. Lobo also [...]
Key members of Congress spoke at a Capitol Hill reception hosted Tuesday evening by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to mark the 70th anniversary of Voice of America broadcasting to China and stressed the importance of VOA for the cause of media freedom and human rights. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, addressed VOA [...]
