Path: utzoo!utgpu!CUVMA!SWL-L Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 12:04:08 EST Reply-To: "K. Sankara Rao" Sender: Short Wave Listener's List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was From: "K. Sankara Rao" Subject: Re: SOVIET, U.S. BROADCASTERS AGREE TO RADIO PROGRAM SWAP X-To: swl-l@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: UofToronto LAN redistribution Message-ID: <90Feb23.023302est.58782@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: bitnet.swl-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu In article <1990Feb22.155245.19965@IDA.ORG>, roskos@IDA.ORG (Eric Roskos) writes: >fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes: > >>Actually, it would be better if both propaganda networks (VOA and RM) >>would broadcast something a little more real -- in other words news >>instead of propaganda. They should both pick up the BBC, CBC, Radio New >>Zealand and a few of the less-partial services. > >I'm still curious which VOA programs other than the editorial at the end >of the broadcast people consider to be propagandistic, and in what sense? >-- >Eric Roskos (roskos@IDA.ORG or Roskos@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL) I do find VOA news not to be 'propagandish' at all. Their news broadcast is much less of a 'propaganda' as our domestic network TV news is and is much more complete. True they devote more time to US news than does BBC. Radio New Zeland news seems to be fairly regional and short (5 minutes, at least those that I hear in the night during cricket broadcast). Even though I like BBC World Service News programs, I have one very strong criticism of it. If I am a Britisher livung abroad, most of the time there is british news at all. I know that there 'news about Britain' but it not on the hour. In that respect RCI and VOA do serve their citizens abroad in addition to the rest of the world. VOA devotes more of its programming time, this I am recalling the time when I was in India, to American subjects, like Jazz, Press Club rebroadcast etc, than does BBC. If that is propaganda, I am all for it. Its news is not slanted as RM's was and not even as our TV network news is K. Sankara Rao ksrao@power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu Department of Electrical Engineering North Dakota State University, Fargo