Two news reports from North Korea, two vastly different accounts. One of the reports, North Korea Kicks Open Press Doors for Taekwon-Do Championship, was produced by the Voice of America (VOA) and paid for by American taxpayers. The agency in charge of VOA — the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) — promoted the report in […]
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October 13 BBG open meeting to consider strategic recommendations
The BBG has published a notice under the Sunshine Act about its next open meeting on October 13 in Washington D.C., BBG Watch reported. The notice states that the BBG will receive and consider recommendations regarding the conclusion of the year-long strategic review and the BBG committee membership. BBG Watch points out that it will […]
BBG Watch criticizes press release and VOA video describing Pyongyang as a vibrant city
BBG Watch, an independent website run by former and current Broadcasting Board of Governors employees, wonders who signed off on the press release on the BBG official website, BBG.gov, quoting Voice of America journalist Sungwon Baik, who just completed a rare reporting assignment to North Korea, as saying that the country’s capital city Pyongyang is […]
CUSIB welcomes new Advisory Board member: journalist and human rights activist Jing Zhang
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) welcomes a new member of its Advisory Board: journalist and human rights activist Jing Zhang, president of Women’s Rights in China. She is the author of a powerful personal testimony, “VOA Cannot Retreat from China,” on the importance of continuing Voice of America radio and television broadcasts. Ms. […]
Senate Committee to BBG: Hands off China Broadcasting — Dr. Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation
Dr. Helle Dale of the Heritage Foundation, who keeps a close eye on the Broadcasting Board of Governors and U.S. international broadcasting, noted in the foundation’s blog that the Senate Committee on Appropriations put a break this week on the BBG’s plans to end Voice of America radio and television broadcasts to China, BBG Watch […]
Don’t junk critical leverage over Beijing — John Lenczowski on VOA in China
Silencing VOA programming would end U.S. support for China’s freedom, BBG Watch reported quoting from John Lenczowski’s recent newspaper commentary on U.S. international broadcasting. John Lenczowski, who as President Reagan’s Soviet affairs adviser was instrumental in increasing funding for Voice of America and Radio Free Europe broadcasts to Poland during Solidarity’s struggle for democracy, wrote […]
Senate Committee on Appropriations tells BBG: VOA radio and TV to China must continue
Reposted from the BBG Watch website. The Senate Committee on Appropriations has rejected the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) proposal to end Voice of America (VOA) radio and TV broadcasts to China and criticized the BBG for the lack of transparency. The committee recommended $740,039,000 for U.S. international broadcasting operations, for the operating and engineering […]
Former Chinese political prisoner says VOA must not retreat from China
VOA Cannot Retreat from China by Jing Zhang President Women’s Rights in China Reposted from the BBG Watch website. I remember an afternoon forty years ago. My father furiously slapped my uncle. The argument was behind closed doors and hushed. I couldn’t make out the reason. Later my sister told me that uncle listened to […]
Fox News reports on Congressional efforts to save VOA radio and TV to China
Fox News reported — Lawmakers Scramble to Keep Voice of America On Air in China — that Congressional lawmakers are scrambling to prevent America’s international media arm from going off-air in China, arguing that a plan to shift much of its reporting to the Internet won’t do much good in a country notorious for its […]
Women's Rights Without Frontiers president — VOA is the leading international broadcaster in China
CUSIB’s Reggie Littlejohn, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers president, commented on Voice of America’s effectiveness in China. I believe that the VOA Mandarin Service has been singled out for the chopping block precisely because of its effectiveness – it has been the leading international broadcaster into China for nearly 70 years and has an enormous following […]