All posts tagged Iran

Broadcasting Board of Governors – The House of Innovation & a Capitalist Manifesto

Broadcasting Board of Governors – The House of Innovation & a Capitalist Manifesto by The Federalist       The gift that keeps on giving:   By now, readers of BBG Watch have seen the photo of a hand-printed piece …

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Broadcasting Board of Governors could use strategy lessons from Castro and Chavez

[caption id="attachment_14717" align="alignleft" width="361" caption="Revolution monument in Managua"][/caption] This past December 2011, the VOA Spanish Service celebrated the 50th anniversary of its popular broadcast, Buenos Dias America, to

Buenos Dias or Buenos Noches for Voice of America Spanish Broadcasts

As Gabriel Garcia Marquez once said:

La sabiduría nos llega cuando ya no nos sirve de nada. Wisdom comes to us when it’s already too late.

Broadcasting Board of Governors – Mumbo-Jumbo and Psycho-Babble

Broadcasting Board of Governors - Mumbo-Jumbo and Psycho-Babble by The Federalist It is painful – the process of seeing the depths to which US Government international broadcasting has fallen

Broadcasting Board of Governors – BBG Strategy: We’re Abandoning Our Mission and We Don’t Care!

Broadcasting Board of Governors - BBG Strategy: We’re Abandoning Our Mission and We Don’t Care! by The Federalist Let’s get right down to the nitty-gritty: Against every major American rival

Gallup tried to silence Tibetan woman protesting silencing of Voice of America Tibetan radio

An unidentified Tibetan woman made an emotional protest Wednesday at a joint Gallup and Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) event in Washington, DC against silencing of Voice of

Why America Has Trouble Reaching Iran: VOA’s Persian News Network in Dire Need of Reform by Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation

Helle C. Dale, a Senior Fellow for Public Diplomacy at The Heritage Foundation has written another in-depth analysis of management problems at the Broadcasting Board of Governors.

Broadcasting Board of Governors – The Eve of Destruction

by The Federalist On March 7, 2012 the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) plans to mark the 70th anniversary of the Voice of America (VOA) and its 70

Broadcasting Board of Governors – Behold! The Master Plan

[caption id="attachment_13247" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="BBG members with IBB Director Richard Lobo and Deputy Director Jeff Trimble"][/caption] by The Federalist   As we already know, as part of the administration’s FY2013

BBG awarded 50 million dollar contract to Gallup while planning to terminate broadcasts and fire over 200 journalists

[caption id="attachment_13391" align="aligncenter" width="560" caption="Broadcasting Board of Governors awards 50 million dollar research contract to Gallup while eliminating dozens of overseas broadcasts and over 200 U.S.-based jobs."][/caption] Journalists

Broadcasting Board of Governors – Iran and the Art of the Deal

[caption id="attachment_10365" align="aligncenter" width="437" caption="Snapshot of Voice of America website under cyber attack by Iranian hackers."][/caption]by The Federalist Voice of America (VOA) Director David Ensor is taking on

Broadcasting Board of Governors – Not Too Big To Fail

[caption id="attachment_13247" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="BBG members with IBB Director Richard Lobo and Deputy Director Jeff Trimble"][/caption]by The Federalist The Broadcasting Board of Governors - International Broadcasting Bureau (BBG/IBB),

Iran – Death sentences and national Internet – escalating repression in Iran

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - The Iranian government's constant repressive policies towards journalists and netizens are being steadily ratcheted up as part of a generalized increase

US International Broadcasting and the BBG: The Numbers Game

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has announced that its own surveys (These are not completely independent surveys. They are produced by a contractor, InterMedia, for whom

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US International Broadcasting and the BBG: The Numbers Game

The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has announced that its own surveys (These are not completely independent surveys. They are produced by a contractor, InterMedia, for whom the

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