{"id":28387,"date":"2017-09-18T06:14:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T10:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=28387"},"modified":"2017-09-18T06:15:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T10:15:53","slug":"broadcasting-board-of-governors-bbg-being-sued-along-with-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/broadcasting-board-of-governors-bbg-being-sued-along-with-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Oath being sued"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source: iMediaEthics<\/a> via Dan Robinson)<\/p>\n

Carter Page, a former adviser to then presidential candidate Donald Trump, is suing Oath, the parent company of Yahoo News and the Huffington Post, [as] well as the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty. The lawsuit results from news stories about his alleged ties to Russia; he calls the articles \u201chighly damaging\u201d and \u201clife-threatening.\u201d
\nSpecifically, Page is suing over a Michael Isikoff article for Yahoo News, which he calls \u201cperhaps the most dangerous, reckless, irresponsible and historically-instrumental moments in modern-day sensational crime story journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isikoff\u2019s Sept. 2016 article reported, based on \u201cmultiple\u201d anonymous sources, that \u201cU.S. intelligence officers\u201d were trying to figure out if Page had \u201copened up private communications with senior Russian officials.\u201d[…]<\/p>\n

The lawsuit is uploaded\u00a0here<\/a>.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article and comment at iMediaEthics…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: iMediaEthics via Dan Robinson) Carter Page, a former adviser to then presidential candidate Donald Trump, is suing Oath, the parent company of Yahoo News and the Huffington Post, [as] well as the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty. The lawsuit results from news stories about his alleged ties to Russia; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,56,960,3],"tags":[406,936,2635],"class_list":["post-28387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-bbg","tag-broadcasting-board-of-governors","tag-dan-robinson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7nR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22545,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/breaking-news-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-broadcasting-board-of-governors-bbg\/","url_meta":{"origin":28387,"position":0},"title":"Breaking News: Beginning of the end of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)","author":"Thomas","date":"December 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor\u00a0Dan Robinson--former White House, Congressional and foreign correspondent for the Voice of America--who alerts us to a major development at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). 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The plaintiffs, several Voice of America (VOA) workers, allege\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"BBG-Logo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BBG-Logo-300x207.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9919,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/the-state-of-the-broadcasting-board-of-governors-bbg\/","url_meta":{"origin":28387,"position":2},"title":"The state of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)","author":"Thomas","date":"June 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Lyle, for sharing this article from Radio World which takes an in-depth look at the state of US International Broadcasting and poses the question, \"How effective is the BBG in 2014?\"","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"View of the Capitol Building from the roof of the Voice of America on 330 Independence Ave., S.W.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12-1024x682.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12-1024x682.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12-1024x682.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":23021,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/broadcasting-board-of-governors-reduced-to-advisory-status\/","url_meta":{"origin":28387,"position":3},"title":"Broadcasting Board of Governors reduced to advisory status","author":"Thomas","date":"December 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: BBG Watch via Dan Robinson) President Barack Obama has signed into law S. 2943, the \u201cNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017,\u201d which includes a provision to reduce the Broadcasting Board of Governors\u2019 (BBG) governing board to an advisory status while making the BBG CEO position subject to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12-1024x682.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12-1024x682.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12-1024x682.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":19212,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/proposed-amendment-to-national-defense-authorization-act-calls-for-privatization-of-voa\/","url_meta":{"origin":28387,"position":4},"title":"Proposed amendment to National Defense Authorization Act calls for privatization of VOA","author":"Thomas","date":"May 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: BBG Watch via Andrea Borgnino) BBG Watch has learned that a proposed privatization of the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) is widely opposed by Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) federal employees, their union, the independent Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB \u2013 cusib.org), and numerous foreign policy and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"View of the Capitol Building from the roof of the Voice of America on 330 Independence Ave., S.W.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12-1024x682.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12-1024x682.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/K3VOA12-1024x682.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12535,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/leaving-so-soon-the-bbg-may-lose-their-new-ceo-andy-lack\/","url_meta":{"origin":28387,"position":5},"title":"Leaving so soon? The BBG may lose their new CEO, Andy Lack","author":"Thomas","date":"March 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0Dan Robinson, who shared links to several\u00a0news stories that propose Andrew Lack may be leaving the CEO position of the Broadcasting Board of Governors to return to NBC. Here's a clip from the Washington Post: Former NBC news president and former Bloomberg Media chairman Andy Lack, who was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Jeff Shell, Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, congratulates Andy Lack after swearing him in as the first ever CEO of U.S. international media. 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