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January 31st 04, 09:37 PM

In article ,
(Super ****ed Dad) wrote:

Just think if XM radio offers SW, who would need a SW radio! ~kinda scary

spd

This is because you don't understand the animal that is SW. With simple
and inexpensive radios people can hear whatever any nation anywhere in
the world cares to broadcast without that content being colored,
distorted or changed in any way.

Any other mode of communication has to pass through an intervening
transport medium be it Internet, satellite or local broadcasting. The
Internet can be blocked and the satellites turned off.

The US news media has a poor record on world event coverage, as does the
BBC these days. Be it broadcast or the newspapers there used to be a
difference between the news reporting and the editorials but these days
news organizations don¹t think the distinction important.

My understanding of world events changed to a remarkable extent when I
heard for the first time directly what other nations had to say instead
of through the US news organizations.

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Telamon
Ventura, California