RadioBanter - degan/kaito 1103

On Aug 12, 5:00 am, Andreas Nitschke wrote:
Duncan wrote at 07.08.07 about " degan/kaito 1103" in in . com:

I rather like CRI;
To me it is clear which continent is trying hardest to 'convert
listeners to its point of view'.

And to me it is clear, that I not trust CRI and other chinese media as long
as China jams foreign radio stations like BBC, VOA or Voice of Tibet.
A state, who blocks the availbility of foreign media for its own citizens,
has much informations and opinions to hide.

With greetings from Germany

Andreas

To be precise, the Chinese are jamming Radio Free Asia, a US
propaganda station. RFA is similar to the Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty station that operated during the Soviet era. I personally find
CRI dull. Most stories are China-specific, and the few international
news stories presented are done with a slant that makes them boring.
At least Cuba has an interesting perspective, and a good selection of
news that tends to be ignored by everybody else. The Chinese have
plenty of money, and CRI is simply the overseas service of CPBS/CNR,
so comparing them to American stations is not fair. American stuff is
absolute bottom of the barrel-mostly offbeat religion and various
weirdos with an ax to grind against the government. The stations don't
have government resources behind them, so they're constantly in a
desperate race to keep ahead of the power company and keep the juice
on. Thus the constant begging. Anybody with altruistic motives quickly
gets hammered by the money issue, and either gives up or becomes a
slave to whoever will pay them. This happened to Allan Weiner, who
wanted to be a legal pirate and instead became just another kook
station trying to stay afloat. The only station that makes it work is
WWCR, which seems to be doing ok, and the single source of income
stations like Family Radio. Other than that, there's very little
market.