U.S. public diplomacy chief Tara Sonenshine to visit the disappearing Voice of America

Apr 05, 2012 1 Comment by

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) executives who have embarrassed the Obama Administration by their decision to end Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcasts to Tibet will receive an early visit to VOA from the newly sworn-in Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Tara D. Sonenshine. [...]

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Something rotten in the state of the BBG

Mar 25, 2012 Comments Off by

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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Broadcasting Board of Governors – Forget Voice of America radio WHAM ( Winning Hearts and Minds )

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CACOPHONY AT COHEN CONTINUUM: Dance of the Comedians by Quo Vadis  In November 2011, at a forum sponsored by the Public Diplomacy Council and reported on by Adam Clayton Powell III, participants heard that the newest 2011 VOA audience figures showed an increase of 22 million for the international broadcasting audience in comparison with 2010.  [...]

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Confused IBB and BBG bureaucracy grows at the expense of strategy, national interests and public diplomacy

Mar 12, 2012 1 Comment

Of late, a lot of confusion at the BBG, IBB and all of U.S. international broadcasting. Confusion about the actual VOA mission codified in the VOA Charter and passed into law P.L.94-350, confusion about the actual distinct role of surrogate radio as opposed to VOA. Foreign policy guidelines? A thing of the past. National security [...]

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Linguistic Peking Duck Soup at Broadcasting Board of Governors

Mar 01, 2012 Comments Off

The Broadcasting Board of Governors has unveiled its budget proposal for FY2013 which calls for eliminating Voice of America radio, television and Internet programs in Cantonese, ending VOA radio broadcasts to Tibet, cutting foreign language broadcasts to many other nations without free media, and significantly reducing VOA English programs. “U.S. public diplomacy à la BBG [...]

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