"Alex" wrote in message
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Since I don't live in the US, I find these kind of stations rather
interesting and jolly good fun to listen to; of course I am entirely aware
that they do not represent the views of the average US citizen, and at
many times they are quite the "crackpot fringe". I don't think that any
reasonably sophisticated European listener, at least, could think
otherwise.

But I, certainly, have a great deal of fun listening to fire-and-brimstone
pastors and the "apocalypse now, hoard-gold-and-buy-guns" broadcasts. It's
miles and miles away from commercial FM, and isn't that the whole point of
the SWL hobby?

My other interests are Tropical Band and anything from South America
(since my wife is from Brazil!)

Alex



I'm sure you are right.

Do the US SW broadcasters speak for the average American? No.

Are the average non-US listeners smart enough to figure that out? Yes.

Frank Dresser

I'm sure you are right.

Do the US SW broadcasters speak for the average American? No.

Are the average non-US listeners smart enough to figure that out? Yes.

Frank Dresser

Hear, hear!

I've been lurking on this group for years and years - and I see so much
bickering and b*tching it's almost like my old headmaster used to say -
"Like washerwomen round the well". Glad to see some level-headed
discussion again. The RFI posts are great too.

At the prices US SW airtime is going I think a few people could get
together and sponsor a "rationalist" segment on as many channels/stations
as we can. Raise a couple of thousand dollars and get someone like Richard
Dawkins to speak, or, perhaps, replay some of Richard Feynman's interviews
from UK's Horizon back in the 1980's.

Yes, and thinking back to the 80s/90s in the UK - we're in the same
situation on TV - a severe lack of critically thought-out and
science-based documentary, in favour of the "shockumentary" - a recent
one could have been subtitled "WiFi in schools is giving your children
cancer!!" - and that was the once-renowned "Panorama".

Sigh...

Alex