USAGM Watch Media Commentary
The Biden Choice on USAGM: Business as Usual, or Major Change. By Dan Robinson, CPD, November 13, 2020
Whatever President-elect Biden ends up doing, he should understand that despite the cheer leading in recent years by USAGM and BBG officials, this is one sick puppy of an agency, beset just in recent years by ongoing morale problems, technical inefficiencies, and more recently revelations of political bias by federal employees. READ MORE
U.S. international broadcasting: Rebuilding the firewall in the new administration. By Kim Andrew Elliott, The Hill, November 20, 2020
In the meantime, Biden could create an advisory panel. It would consist of respected journalists and media executives, with international experience, representing a spectrum of political orientations. Such a panel would be better off without commentators, pundits, political strategists and public relations flacks, as important as those professions are. Members should not be so high in their corporate management chains that they don’t have time to attend meetings or to participate in the work of the board. READ MORE
USAGM & Transition Team Work Plan and Requests EXCLUSIVE
USAGM Watch Commentary USAGM Watch has received a copy of “USAGM & Transition Work Plans and Request,” which was reportedly sent to the senior management of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) by the Biden USAGM transition team headed by Richard Stengel, former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs during […]
USAGM – US Agency for Global Mayhem – Don’t Get Fooled – Again
OPINION – GUEST COMMENTARY US Agency for Global Mayhem Don’t Get Fooled – Again By The Federalist Originally posted on November 21, 2020 and last edited for formatting changes on February 18, 2021. To all appearances, Joe Biden has successfully defeated Donald Trump and will be the next president of the United States. The […]
ROBINSON and ELLIOTT on Reforming USAGM in Charge of Voice of America, Other USG Media
USAGM Watch Media Commentary The Biden Choice on USAGM: Business as Usual, or Major Change. By Dan Robinson, CPD, November 13, 2020 Whatever President-elect Biden ends up doing, he should understand that despite the cheer leading in recent years by USAGM and BBG officials, this is one sick puppy of an agency, beset just in […]
Lauded Adviser of Biden’s USAGM Transition Leader Richard Stengel Was Also Chief Aide of Ex BBG CEO Before Conviction for Theft
USAGM Watch Commentary President Obama’s Under a Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel heaped praise in his 2019 book, Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It, on his former special advisor Haroon Ullah who was later caught by an […]
Biden’s USAGM Transition Leader Richard Stengel Pushed Normalization with Castro’s Cuba for OCB and VOA EXCLUSIVE
USAGM Watch Commentary According to two individuals who attended closed meetings of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) in 2016, the then Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Richard Stengel aggressively pushed the Obama White House policy on relations with the Castro brothers’ communist regime in Cuba and questioned the mission of Radio and […]
Biden’s USAGM Transition Leader Richard Stengel Criticized for Advocating Restrictions on Free Speech
USAGM Watch Commentary Richard Stengel’s October 29, 2019 op-ed in The Washington Post, “Why America needs a hate speech law,” has been criticized by free press advocates immediately after it was written, with new criticism emerging in the last few days after President-Elect Biden has appointed him to lead the transition at the U.S. government agency, […]
Biden Named Richard Stengel Team Lead Transition Volunteer for US Agency for Global Media – USAGM
Former Time magazine editor Richard Stengel who as former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs represented Secretary of State John Kerry at meetings of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)–the former governing body of the agency which has been renamed in 2018 the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM)– has been selected by […]
