Telamon wrote:
In article , adam
wrote:

Is it just me or does VOA give you the ****s?

Speaking for myself the drive by media does that for me.

I was listening to it and it was NOTHING BUT PROPERGANDA all the
time, other than the sports section.It was sport and then "how the
spread of democracy is help fighting the war on terror" or some such
**** i promptly turn the dial, it makes me want to throw the radio
out of the window.There programs make a mockery of there slogan on
there site "a trusted source of news" it has got worse since bush has
come to power.

It is so bad that the radio station in Australia (ABC newsradio) that
mainly takes programs from overseas sources (i.e DW radio,RNW etc
etc)doesnt take ANY VOA programs its main american radio program is
sourced from NPR.

Rant over

Propaganda is the REASON VOA or any other government run station is on
the air. Australia and other nations have their own brand of propaganda.
It has always been this way.

Not necessarily radio australia doesnt broadcast properganda it
broadcasts what the ABC broadcasts basically and its got complaints from
the current govt of "anti-governent and left-wing bias" so no it isnt
like that.But VOA makes all its programs as properganda which wouldent
annoy me if they didnt claim to be a reliable news source.Im not the
only one who thinks its sucks.Here is what my friend said about the VOA
service.
Most people just ignore VOA rather than give it the time of day, it
used to have a purpose but that died with the cold war.

That sums it up, i heard that VOA is going to wind up its english
service soon.

Good riddance

Yours truly
Adam

In article , adam
wrote:

Telamon wrote:
In article , adam
wrote:

Is it just me or does VOA give you the ****s?

Speaking for myself the drive by media does that for me.

I was listening to it and it was NOTHING BUT PROPERGANDA all the
time, other than the sports section.It was sport and then "how the
spread of democracy is help fighting the war on terror" or some such
**** i promptly turn the dial, it makes me want to throw the radio
out of the window.There programs make a mockery of there slogan on
there site "a trusted source of news" it has got worse since bush has
come to power.

It is so bad that the radio station in Australia (ABC newsradio) that
mainly takes programs from overseas sources (i.e DW radio,RNW etc
etc)doesnt take ANY VOA programs its main american radio program is
sourced from NPR.

Rant over

Propaganda is the REASON VOA or any other government run station is on
the air. Australia and other nations have their own brand of propaganda.
It has always been this way.

Not necessarily radio australia doesnt broadcast properganda it
broadcasts what the ABC broadcasts basically and its got complaints from
the current govt of "anti-governent and left-wing bias" so no it isnt
like that.But VOA makes all its programs as properganda which wouldent
annoy me if they didnt claim to be a reliable news source.Im not the
only one who thinks its sucks.Here is what my friend said about the VOA
service.
Most people just ignore VOA rather than give it the time of day, it
used to have a purpose but that died with the cold war.

That sums it up, i heard that VOA is going to wind up its english
service soon.

Good riddance

I guess I should have said many or most are on the air to broadcast
propaganda such as VOR, Havana Cuba, North Korea, and China as examples.

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Telamon
Ventura, California