Dave Bakken <bakken@ARIZONA.EDU> (02/02/90)
In article <1581@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> aem@Mthvax.CS.Miami.Edu writes: >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. Just maybe. > Maybe most people do recognize >it's high propaganda content, and take everything on it with a block or two >of salt. I've listened to it a few times, and I did hear some views contrary to the administration position. Do you think it spits out propaganda simply because it doesn't decry the West as evil, etc.? What sort of blatant propaganda are you talking about? I'll agree that the VOA isn't as impartial as the BBC (but maybe you consider them to be Western lackeys, too), but it didn't seem bad to me. >BTW, why does "The Most Powerful Nation in the World" (TM) need a propaganda >station? Because many parts of the world, especially until recently, allow only the official government views to be aired. The US isn't the only one who wants to present itself in a positive light - look at the great number of shortwave radio stations from second- and third- world countries that do the same thing. >aem > >-- >a.e.mossberg / aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu / aem@umiami.BITNET / Pahayokee Bioregion >Only the educated are free. - Epictetus If this digresses too much away from radio I will ask it be directed to talk.politics.something. -- Dave Bakken Internet: bakken@cs.arizona.edu 721 Gould-Simpson Bldg UUCP: uunet!arizona!bakken Dept of Computer Science; U of Arizona Phone: +1 602 621 8372 (w) Tucson, AZ 85721 USA FAX: +1 602 621 4246