WRTH has, for several years, listed only two transmitters, one 50 kw and the other 100 kw. With the ongoing power shortages and blackouts across Cuba, I doubt that either is running full power. Somewhere in the very hierarchical socialist system it is likely that nobody has thought about just turning them off.
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Pardon me, but we thought this was about the price of eggs, wasn't it?....
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We are, again, getting that mystical and unsubstantiated number of 360 million listeners.60 Minutes devoted more than 13 of those minutes tonight to a very comprehensive piece on VOA.
I think it's well worth the watch.
Voice of America journalists speak out after Trump administration shuts down network
Voice of America is silent after President Trump effectively shut down the broadcaster. VOA journalists are speaking out about what this could mean for an audience of 360 million around the world.
The FCC can add that to their current 60 Minutes investigation.
And the video is even harder to deliver in repressive or "enemy" states.
Which is more proof of Marshall McLuhan's theory that "The Medium is the message," per my freshman Communications Arts course in undergraduate college. Personally, I think the fact that the VOA was there for those who were looking for it and is not there now is more important than the fact that it didn't have a measureable audience in the commercial sense. I also think that the President's threats to NPR and PBS come from the same place that destroyed VOA; namely that he doesn't want to have any media present, especially media funded by Congress, that will give his critics a platform on which they can press their grievances against him. What the current U.S. President wants for the media that cover him is what we see in Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, and not what is in currently democratic countries such as Great Britain, France, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand.
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I don't think that any of the groups or people involved have the needed awareness of the total death of shortwave, the low impact of high power "adjacent nation" AMs and the controls in totalitarian nations of internet content. They are essentially worshiping a dead horse rather than burying it.
As I said before, the people selected to head the VOA, FCC and to direct funding for things like NPR and PBS are among the worst nominations of the current government.
This weekend, I'm going to what is being called "Gadgets and Gallons." It's a party for afew blind people who are going to share some high- and low-tech gadgets that either we use currently or did use at one time (along with some ice cream, the "gallons" in the title). I'm bringing a Cranmer abacus, based on the Japanese abacus. While calculators and computers can outwit its speed, when the electricity goes out or is turned off, the abacus, which requires no electricity--just brain power and a few simple rules--can assist me with any calculations I need to make just like a pencil and paper can assist sighted people in the same situation.
