‘Fake’ interview on Voice of America part of a bigger problem at BBG and VOA Russian Service

Feb 06, 2012 Comments Off by

The posting on the Voice of America Russian website of an allegedly fake interview with a Russian anti-corruption lawyer, human rights activist, opposition leader and blogger Alexei Navalny is part of a larger problem of how the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) operates, its program marketing strategy, and the management, staffing and editorial controls in [...]

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Obama Plays Golf After Skipping Polish President’s Funeral

Apr 21, 2010 Comments Off by

Obama’s Public Diplomacy Katabasis in Poland President Obama may very well kiss the Polish American vote good bye after committing yet another public diplomacy blunder which gave Vice President Biden, U.S. Ambassador to Poland Lee A. Feinstein and some Congressional Democrats plenty of reasons to be pulling their hair out in utter frustration over his [...]

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U.S. Embassy blames diplomatic gaffe on a Polish translator but a problem runs much deeper

Oct 27, 2009 Comments Off by

TedLipien.com, SAN FRANCISCO — Bill Clinton might have asked what the “enhanced” definition of  ”to enhance” IS?  The U.S. Embassy in Warsaw is busy blaming a Polish translator for mistranslating U.S. Ambassador Lee Feinstein’s TV interview answer about Polish troops in Afghanistan,  which caused a diplomatic uproar in Poland. In an interview broadcast last Saturday,  Ambassador [...]

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New York Times covers Biden in Warsaw from Berlin

Oct 22, 2009 Comments Off

Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO — It is not a good time for Poland in Washington and in U.S. media. The New York Times covered Vice President Biden’s visit to Warsaw from Berlin. It could have been worse; the report could have been filed from Moscow or the paper could have used a short AP story, as [...]

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US Public Diplomacy Failure to Reach Out to the Russians After Terrorist Attack in Ingushetia

Aug 18, 2009 1 Comment

FreeMediaOnline.org, Free Media Online Blog, GovoritAmerika.us, Commentary by Ted Lipien, August 18, 2009, San Francisco — Ever since the United States Information Agency (USIA) was dismantled in a foolish post-Cold War cost-cutting move, the U.S. State Department and American diplomats abroad have not been able to present a coherent message to foreign audiences quickly and [...]

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