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. [...]

by The Federalist The Voice of America (VOA) Newsroom is not a happy place: It is one of the primary targets in the proposed 30% reduction in VOA broadcast operations. It is a place with an estranged relationship with its managers who are seen as defensive at best, vindictive at worst. It is being saddled [...]

The Broadcasting Board of Governors public relations officials should be ashamed to promote Dalai Lama’s support for the Voice of America in press releases and announcements while keeping hidden from the public in the same PR materials their plan to end Voice of America radio broadcasts to Tibet. “For a journalistic organization, it is shameful [...]