{"id":1074,"date":"2011-03-03T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2011-03-03T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:32:17","slug":"the-sydney-morning-herald-we-need-to-broadcast-to-the-world-not-whisper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/the-sydney-morning-herald-we-need-to-broadcast-to-the-world-not-whisper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sydney Morning Herald: &#8220;We need to broadcast to the world, not whisper&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1076\" title=\"smh_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/smh_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"59\" \/>(Source: <a title=\"SMH\" href=\"httphttp:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/society-and-culture\/we-need-to-broadcast-to-the-world-not-whisper-20110301-1bd2z.html\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>As the Cold War was ending in the late 1980s and early &#8217;90s, Western nations, confident of a lasting peace, began to neglect the tools that had sustained them in the ideological war against communism. In the US, institutions of public diplomacy and strategic communications were disbanded, and foreign service hiring frozen, in what the US Defence Secretary, Robert Gates, called a &#8220;gutting&#8221; of the US&#8217;s ability to engage, assist and communicate with the world. Other countries blindly tagged along.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[&#8230;] Right after the BBC World Service was forced to announce deep cuts to its budget affecting even its Arabic-language services, Egypt and Tunisia evicted their presidents. The impact is reverberating around the Middle East.[&#8230;] The events of the past few weeks in the Middle East have surely reinforced the power of the media (new and old) to inspire, engage and propel change.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SMH\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/society-and-culture\/we-need-to-broadcast-to-the-world-not-whisper-20110301-1bd2z.html\">Read full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: The Sydney Morning Herald) As the Cold War was ending in the late 1980s and early &#8217;90s, Western nations, confident of a lasting peace, began to neglect the tools that had sustained them in the ideological war against communism. In the US, institutions of public diplomacy and strategic communications were disbanded, and foreign service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,81,3],"tags":[352,368,367],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-current-events","category-news","tag-bbc-world-service-cuts","tag-radio-australia","tag-sydney-morning-herald"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34637,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/why-shortwave-radio-makes-an-idea-a-powerful-weapon\/","url_meta":{"origin":1074,"position":0},"title":"Why shortwave radio makes an idea &#8220;a powerful weapon&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"October 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Rich Cuff and Mike Hansgen who share the following Op Ed piece from the Sydney Morning Herald: Warning: put down any power tools and ensure you\u2019re not operating heavy machinery before you read the next sentence. 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It\u2019s because Australia is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tivoli-Model-One-Digital.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tivoli-Model-One-Digital.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tivoli-Model-One-Digital.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Tivoli-Model-One-Digital.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8813,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/lynley-marshall-defends-abc-overseas-broadcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1074,"position":2},"title":"Lynley Marshall defends ABC overseas broadcasts","author":"Thomas","date":"February 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: The Sydney Morning Herald) \"The chief for the ABC broadcasting into the Asia Pacific insists the taxpayer funded network has a growing audience with better programs on the way - despite reports the service is for the chop in the May budget. 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