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And How!
Of course not. That is what the MSM is for.
Oh wait, you thought they were reporting legitimate news? How quaint!
It can come from just plain folks on social media. Traditional media has no monopoly on the information people get.
The biggest problem we have now is AI generated video being spread on the web. We have met the enemy, and it is us.
You don't need a license, and you don't need to serve the public interest. Just post AI generated video, and that becomes news.
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Could resentment of that concession have been yet another factor in the rise of Hitler?
I doubt Hitler or his supporters cared about German radio station call letters.
I was being facetious.
Australia uses the number system then there calls
With an unannounced VL prefix.
Yes, of course, targeting foreigners with some pretty good stuff. Ya know, come to think of it , on programming matters - j. edgar hoover had his
unofficial tentacles (by approval/intimidation) into early radio and into television up to the late 1960's.
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Compared with nearly all international broadcasters, the VOA fell in the "lowest bias" category. Along with that would be the New Zealand and Netherlands offerings in the past.
The next tier would be France, Italy, Belgium and Australia and, possibly Japan and India.
After that we get bias in offerings from Spain, Portugal, Israel anywhere in Latin America where state radio management was a political position.
Finally, China, Russia and any past totalitarian state.
Last place is, of course, Iran ever since the fall of the Shah.
(I did not include all nations... just representative ones with a significant SW presence.)
I hope your omission of the BBC World Service was unintentional. Would you have put it in the top or second tier?
I always thought it stood for Fine Arts California. The station was a long-time Classical Music outlet on both 1330 AM and 92.3 FM. But maybe the call sign pre-dates the classical format?
It did. Cord gave the station the KFAC calls in 1931. It didn't become a mostly Classical station until 1938, and prior to that, carried, among other things, a daily children's program and baseball games (the PCL Los Angeles Angels).
Even after largely going Classical, it made room for other programming, including Lucky Lager Dance Time, in the 1940s.
The schedule was cleared and the station went all-Classical about the same time KFAC added an FM, in 1948.
Second or third. The Beeb tends to be "focused" on some form of "national attitude" historically. It is more partialize IMHO than ones like the VOA or even Radio Canada (before it died).
I watch the BBC North American TV service often, and find that reporting still uses polarized adjectives and terminology on occasion.
The least biased is/was the VOA's old "special English" news broadcasts. The vocabulary was so limited it was as bland as skim milk. (And it was said so slowly that you had to have an IQ under 70 to find it interesting).
Many years (decades?) ago I read a magazine article (can’t remember the source) that discussed listener perceptions of both the BBC and VOA in developing countries. A major issue stood out in that the VOA tended to “talk down” to its audience while the BBC treated its listeners with more respect. Having listened to both broadcasters over close to 60 years I can understand that sentiment, though that difference has become much less pronounced in more recent years.
And that attitude only applied to English language broadcasts which pretty much preached to the choir. The Spanish, Portuguese and French broadcasts I listened to were quite neutral in tone.
Since the non-English broadcasts were mostly done by native speakers from other countries, there was no "American" attitude in them.
And the Philippines uses D. One of the few countries in Asia that actually has stations identified by their call letters (like DZMM). I guess the followed the American way
Remember, the very first Philippine stations were licensed by the FCC!
The Philippines have been assigned the DU-DZ and 4D-4I blocks, effective with the 1947 World Administrative Radio Conference. When they were a US territory, broadcasters were assigned KZ**, which changed to DZ** after independence and the reassignment noted above. Prior to the war, Germany had the entire D block.
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