Comments on: Cleaning house at the BBG; former CNN CEO to manage U.S. international news programs

By: Mohammad Taghi Moslehi

Mohammad Taghi Moslehi — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:34:53 +0000

TV Guru who does not even dare to expose his name is just talking through his hatand just nonsense. Everybody who knows BBG, IBB and VOA is aware that it is one of the most corrupt agencies in Washington. It needs a real house clean-up thatg I hope the incoming Board of Directors will take care of it. Majority of those who have coccupied positions at BBG, IBB, VOA are extremely corrupt beyond reforms. They must be fired and forced to retire. 70 percent of the VOA staff are idle and have no idea about their real mission, except collecting paychecks.

By: TV Guru

TV Guru — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:34:52 +0000

As well as cleaning any internal misconduct at the BBG, if any, “cleanup” should mean answering a few questions, like:
-Are some of these “channels” of communication intended to “relay” a certain message to the intended audience? If yes, it should have been known these channels would fail. Because the intended audience do not lack the basic intelligence needed to filter that message and deduct those channels as being pure propaganda! America should start thinking seriously about how to reach the level of practicing what it preaches, and which mostly does not itself practice locally, which is OBJECTIVE MEDIA, “FREE” OF A MESSAGE! Hence maybe, “The Free One” or Alhurra.
-What is the measure of success of these channels? Viewership figures? These will NOT rise if the message perceived, if there should be any, is propaganda.
If these channels BECOME what they say they are, which at the moment I don’t think they are, American tax payer’s money would not be a waste, but would indeed be a pride to anyone, Americans as well as the JOURNALISTS of the other nationalities who earn this money, whose aim is to practice just that, journalism. These journalists want to serve their countries too by giving the voice of the supressed, etc. There would be no harm in those channels to be allowed to continue their course, only with some rethinking of their adminstrative and content agenda that would fit the international audience they are addressing, rising to the intelligence level of both the masses who need their voice, and of the intelligentsia who are not fooled by propaganda and who also need the voice of free media.

By: M.T. Moslehi

M.T. Moslehi — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:21:39 +0000

I would like to add that, I suspect that there is a Ronald Lake who would take time to respond to the facts that I have put forward. Instead I think that one of the hated and corrupt individuals that I have been instrumental to be removed has come up with idiotic response.

By: Mohammad T. Moslehi

Mohammad T. Moslehi — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:25:27 +0000

US State Department Office of Inspector General
based on my compalins inspected PNN-VOA and issued its reports in early April of 2009.
They noticed waste, fraud and abuse, abusive and corrupt management in PNN-VOA. Booz-Allen-Hamilton, Iran Steering Group and Washington Institute for Near East Policy issued reports of corrupt and abusive management and incompetency of programs aired to Iran. Washington Post as well as Washington Times and other newspapers have written articles regarding corrupt and abusive management and what not. I think those who think otherwise, not only they are part of corruption in the government or if they claim that they are not, must live in another planet and not on earth let alone in the U.S. and in Washington D.C. in particular. Corruption started getting rampant once George W. Bush got in the White House in 2001. Thank God that he is gone, having left lots and lots of mess and house clean-up for President Obama.

By: Mohammad T. Moslehi

Mohammad T. Moslehi — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:04:43 +0000

BBG amd VOA is the worst agency as far as management and corruption which got worse since 2001. This is not something that I found out from week one once I was brought in from Los Angeles. This is something that the entire government is aware of it, but nobody has had the guts and stomack to rock the boat. For 4 consecutive years OPM has ranked BBG bottom of the list.
I am sure that Ronald Lake is part of the ongoing corruption in BBG and VOA or he has vested interests, otherwise he would not make such stupid and irresponsible remarks. Since I picked up the fight we have seen,Sheila Gandji, Benjamin Jonas-Keeling, Joy K. Wagner, Susan Shand and number of other hated and corrupt individuals have been removed from PNN-VOA. A house clean-up is under way. I will not rest until a good house clean-up is accomplished.

By: Ronald Lake

Ronald Lake — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:45:37 +0000

Mr. M.T. Moslehi is a disgruntled PNN contractor who was fired for incompetency. He has dedicated himself to smear campaigns since his release. Healthy skepticism should be exercised when reading his opinions.

By: M.T. Moslehi

M.T. Moslehi — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:08:35 +0000

Sheila Gandji is core of the problems VOA. She is just a GED holder, but somehow (I urge you to find out) has GS-15

By: M.T. Moslehi

M.T. Moslehi — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:05:24 +0000

I hope that the new BBG Board of Directors under chairmanship of Dr. Walter Isaacson will do a real house clean-up in Persian News Network by removing the non-Farsi speakers who have occupied positions as Senior Editors and Executive Editors and the agents of the Islamic republic of Iran and hard core anti America leftists who have infiltrated PNN since 2001.
These individuals have no business for being in PNN. Their being there is pure waste of tax-payers money. Recently 3 positions were abolished and 3 people (Benjamin Jonas-Keeling, Joy K. Wagner and Susan Shand) were removed. PNN wasted several hundred thousand dollars for these three individuals. I hope that Dr. Isaacson will let the rest of them go.