Path: utzoo!utgpu!ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca!CUVMA!SWL-L Date: Fri, 2 Feb 90 09:14:50 EST Reply-To: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu Sender: Short Wave Listener's List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was From: "a.e.mossberg" Subject: Re: VOA Cuts Six Languages X-To: swl-l@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: UofToronto LAN redistribution Message-ID: <90Feb2.224122est.58710@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: bitnet.swl-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu Gosh, all those poor Laotians, Swahilians, Turks, Uzbeks, and Slovenes won't get their daily dose of official US propaganda! They'll suffer massive withdrawal, and realize after a time that the US is not the center of the world, the streets aren't paved with gold, and capitalism isn't the divine order of God! They might even stop abandoning their own countries in attempts to reach our self-styled paradise (where they become near-slaves cleaning houses of the rich, living on the streets, and running each day from the INS) and try to build their countries in some form other than in the US's image. Well, maybe I'm exagerating the impact of VOA. Maybe most people do recognize it's high propaganda content, and take everything on it with a block or two of salt. BTW, why does "The Most Powerful Nation in the World" (TM) need a propaganda station? aem -- a.e.mossberg / aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu / aem@umiami.BITNET / Pahayokee Bioregion Only the educated are free. - Epictetus