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Why are US-funded USAGM journalists defending Russia, Iran over the Hamas massacre? – Ted Lipien Op-Ed in The Hill

Curator — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:57:22 +0000

My new op-ed in The Hill includes comments on the latest barbaric attacks by Hamas terrorists on Israeli civilians—defenseless Jewish women, children, and the elderly. I discuss the hard-to-understand and explain defense of propaganda and disinformation from Iran and Russia by U.S. government-managed and funded U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) journalists, including federal employees working for the Voice […]

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Walter Duranty on Voice of America’s First Program Director Joseph F. Barnes

Curator — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 16:36:58 +0000

A commentary by Ted Lipien for the Cold War Radio Museum In doing historical research, I found a few indirect links between one of Joseph Stalin’s greatest apologists, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning Moscow correspondent in the 1930s Walter Duranty, and the Voice of America (VOA), the international radio broadcasting station, which since 1942 […]

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Hillary Clinton Declares U.S. Broadcasting “Practically Defunct”

Curator — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 05:38:00 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum During testimony on January 23, 2013 before the House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton stated: The Broadcasting Board of Governors is practically defunct in terms of its capacity to be able to tell a message around the world. So, we’re abdicating […]

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Maciej Wierzyński at Voice of America – ‘the Most Frustrating Period’ in the Life of a Refugee Journalist

Curator — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 23:39:25 +0000

Maciej Wierzyński at Voice of America One of the most successful and popular Polish-American refugee journalists, Maciej Wierzyński, described his tenure at the Voice of America in the 1990s as the “most frustrating period of his life.” By Ted Lipien My successor as the Voice of America (VOA) Polish Service chief from 1994 until 2000 […]

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Discrimination of Refugee Broadcasters by Voice of America Management Has Been Hidden for Decades

Curator — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 22:14:34 +0000

Treated for decades as second-class citizens and denied direct access to wire services by U.S.-born, mostly white, mostly left-leaning, and mostly male Voice of America (VOA) managers and reporters, these VOA immigrant broadcasters, some of them outstanding women journalists who spent time in communist prisons, did their best to win the propaganda war with the […]

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Voice of America Posts Its First Ever U.S. Election Campaign Ad

Curator — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 21:52:00 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum In an unprecedented break with longtime practice and in violation of the VOA Charter, the Voice of America posted online in 2016 a number of unbalanced and unchallenged promotional videos and partisan commentaries. Almost all were in favor of Democratic Party candidates or against Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump, although […]

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Voice Of America And Chinese Embassy Met Annually To Discuss VOA China Broadcasts, Asia Society And Hoover Institution Revealed In 2018

Curator — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 23:24:00 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum A study issued on October 24, 2018 by the Asia Society and the Hoover Institution revealed that annual meetings took place between the management of the Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service and the Chinese Embassy personnel in Washington, DC to discuss VOA programs to China. According to a report of […]

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Cold War Lessons for Voice of America in China

Curator — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 05:45:22 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum During the Cold War, it would have been unthinkable for the United States government to put in charge of U.S. international broadcasting through the Voice of America (VOA) an American businessman like Armand Hammer who had made millions for his company in various business deals with Soviet Russia. U.S. international broadcasting […]

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Pro-Stalin Voice of America Propaganda Revealed in 1984 VOA Interview with Józef Czapski

Curator — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 23:36:13 +0000

Cold War Radio Museum A recent (2017) independent study by the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) focusing on Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts to Iran has found that under Obama administration officials these broadcasts “perpetuated to audiences the appearance of pro-regime [Iran] propaganda, rather than objective reporting, on the part of both the VOA and […]

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