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BBC cuts World Service Staff 25%
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Not that I'm questioning you, but if you've got a public reference (i.e. a link) to where it says VOA is prohibited from domestic carriage on AM and FM, I would be most appreciative. The question comes up infrequently but regularly amongst my students and I've never liked telling them that I know VOA can't be broadcast domestically but I don't know where it says that.
Can't look for it now from this little PDA, but just do a web search on VOA, congressional charter, domestic restriction. It should even be burried somewhere on their massive web site. The purpose was to prevent them from doing domesric propaganda. Of course, that was way before faux news came along to handle it for them!.
Section 501(a) of the "US Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948" (Public Law 80-402), popularly referred to as the Smith–Mundt Act. Codified as 22 USC 1461 (1a).aaronread said:
http://vlex.com/vid/ban-domestic-activities-information-agency-19200984
Silkie said:
Because the Tories are proposing much more important cuts in programmes more important to the British people than BBC World. You've probably seen footage on your favourite nightly news program about street protests when they proposed raising university tuition by 100% or cutting funding to the NHS.
Today, the World Service is presenting special programming about it being their final day of broadcasting to several areas. A high power medium transmitter on, I believe it is 648KHz, for Europe is being either turned off or will be used for other purposes, along with all shortwave service to the Caribbean.
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The BBC World Service was intended for the subjects in the British Empire. After WWII, when the Empire faded into the British Commonwealth, the WS kept it informed, since the internet didn't exist until 1995. The BBC WS was funded by a grant from the Foreign Office, but now will be put into the regular BBC budget. Either way, the British taxpayer supported it one way or another. The BBC WS, in its heyday, was a vast far flung organization of transmitters, reporters, offices, translators, languages, all quite expensive and all paid for by the UK taxpayer. I enjoyed listening to the BBC WS of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, when it was a REAL world service, with news, information and all sorts of programs, ranging from documentaries, game shows, sports, history, country profiles, politics, science and much more. I also felt very lucky to be able to listen and somewhat guilty for not having to pay for it. To me, the old BBC WS as sort of an on-air evolving encyclopedia. I don't much care for what the BBC WS has degenerated into for the past 10 years. I can still get it on my shortwave set, but most of the time its as unpalatable as our cable news/propaganda channels. Even the Beebs news is slanted, much in the same manner and direction as NPR. Times change, people change and what was king yesterday will be replaced by something else tomorrow and that in turn will be replaced by something else next week. With this age of instant communications, everything happens and is forgotten much too fast for me. RIP BBC WS. Maybe someday it will come back.
1st of 5: No, the BBC WS isn't what it was. Unless there's some rapidly unfolding event like the earthquake/tsunami disaster, rolling 24-hour news from whatever source becomes repetitious and boring. Despite this, its extensive network of reporters and stringers probably helps it provide more varied and more complete coverage of events than any other media organization. How long that will last under the new financing arrangements is another matter.
If you pine for the WS of old, you might try BBC Radio 4 on line - that still airs programming of the kind that has mostly gone from the WS and long since gone from American radio, and there's apparently a strong audience for it.
If you pine for the WS of old, you might try BBC Radio 4 on line - that still airs programming of the kind that has mostly gone from the WS and long since gone from American radio, and there's apparently a strong audience for it.
BMR said:
I read about the protests, but it appears they were more than protests - like the hopping mad rioting biz I described. You'd think the people would be happy to be getting their freedom back, but once emasculated I guess everyone everywhere turns into a whimpering mammy baby once the pap is taken away.
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