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WP Mentions USAGM Watch: a Possible Amanda Bennett Nomination May Offend Ethnic Voters

USAGMW by USAGMW
October 28, 2021
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‘Disgusting and Disgraceful’ Mismanagement — Voice of America Reporter Responds to WP Defense of VOA Director

Amanda Bennett, VOA Director 2016-2020, USAGM CEO since 2021.

Possible Amanda Bennett nomination for USAGM could offend ethnic voters and face trouble in the Senate because of Voice of America scandals.

BBG Watch Commentary

The Washington Post article by Paul Farhi, “Biden favorite to run Voice of America parent agency could face trouble with Senate GOP,” suggests trouble for Amanda Bennett, among Senate Republicans, but it is the Senate Democrats who should worry about the negative impact on ethnic voters for their own party which relies on support from immigrant communities.

USAGM Watch, a blog that has been critical of the agency’s management for years, wrote earlier this month that Senate confirmation of Bennett “would offend immigrant voters [and risk] more scandals” at USAGM. It cited “controversies” during her tenure at VOA, such as criticism from Iranian, Cuban and Chinese Americans that the broadcaster had been insufficiently critical of human-rights abuses in its news coverage of Iran, Cuba and China. READ MORE

One Washington Post reader posted the following comment:

At least the author of this piece has done some due diligence here and 
mentioned USAGM Watch coverage of criticisms leveled against Bennett 
when she ran VOA.  The fact is that during Bennett’s tenure, VOA saw a 
number of scandals.  Earlier this year, Farhi reported on one of those, 
revelations that a key VOA language service had basically become a 
mouthpiece for the leader of Ethiopia, along with plagiarism (see LINK).

In 2020, USAGM Watch revealed the contents of a summary of a report 
prepared by consultants hired by Bennett that warned about the problem 
of political bias in VOA programming — yet the full report was buried 
by the agency (see LINK).

And in the latest development, House Foreign Affairs Committee GOP 
lawmakers are demanding extensive information from the Acting USAGM CEO, 
who Bennett would replace, about the re-hiring of a key management 
official  (see LINK).  These are just the tip of the 
iceberg at USAGM, once described by none other than The Washington Post 
as a “perennial bottom feeder” in annual federal employee satisfaction 
surveys.

ALSO READ: Possible Biden Nomination of Amanda Bennett Would Offend Immigrant Voters, Risks More Scandals at USAGM

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