On Fri, 28 Dec 2012, Ernie wrote:

I am spending less and less time looking at this newsgroup because of the
so-called "shortwave radio - Google News"
postings. Most of this stuff has nothing to do with shortwave and it is just
keyword-driven nonsense from their
propaganda news coverage.

Too bad.

If its not the Chinese selling their online crappy products here it's
Google's brainwashing excrement. This once was an interesting place to stop.

Blame it on the rec.radio.info moderators who think the whole hierarchy is
under their command.

rec.radio.info is a good idea, bulletins and recurring postings like faqs.

But when rec.radio.amateur.moderated came into being, as near as I can
tell the same bunch doing rec.radio.info, they decided they were the
bosses of the hierarchy. Which is why we get regular postings in the
other newsgroups (and here) where they are looking for FAQ keepers, rather
than just coming in here and trying to talk to us (actually they did once,
tried to crown someone who had little to say but posted way too often).

It's the same group that posts in some of the other newsgroups telling us
we can cross-post to the rec.radio.amateur.moderated newsgroup, without
asking if we wanted cross-posting.

It's the same group that isn't content with rec.radio.info, so they post
the same bulletins and repeated messages to rec.radio.amateur.misc and I
think maybe .policy and rec.radio.amateur.moderated. The last is an
interesting case because they so badly wanted a moderated newsgroup, yet
nobody is really posting there. It's filled with broadcast messages that
are going into rec.radio.info. Once in a while someone stumbles in there
and posts, and sometimes they get a reply, a handful of the same people
answering. And sometimes someone posts a reply to one of the
bulletins, which sometimes inturn gets a reply.

The google messages come from those same moderators. They think they can
improve things by posting news from elsewhere, yet they never came here to
ask us if we wanted those messages.

Anyone can see that shortwave news by setting up the same search at
google. And probably see a better selection by picking less broad search
terms.

Michael