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November 29th 04, 03:31 AM

In article , says...
I was wondering what all of you regularly listen to for news on SW. I'm
thinking of dusting off my Degen 1102 and seeing what I can hear that
comes in reliably. I'm in northern California. I'm sick of depending on
American TeeVee for news.

I agree. Domestic media is often liberally-biased, not to mention
America-centric. I often enjoy hearing what those in other countries
have to say about world events. It's often very eye-opening.

My short list of excellent news sources on shortwave:

BBC
Voice of America
Radio Netherlands
Deutsche Welle
Radio Taiwan
NHK Radio Japan
Radio Canada International
Radio Australia
Radio New Zealand International
Voice of Russia

Those all give pretty straightforward news reports. For news reports
that are somewhat slanted, you'll find Radio Havana Cuba and China Radio
International interesting.

Voice of Russia (formerly Radio Moscow) would have been in the
"slanted" list but they have been doing a commendable job in recent
years of striving for fair-and-balanced reporting. They're not quite at
the point where the VOA or BBC are, but that's probably because of
external (i.e., government) influences and not any fault of the
journalists themselves. Good job, guys!

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-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
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