{"id":27380,"date":"2017-07-31T07:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27380"},"modified":"2017-07-31T07:30:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:30:31","slug":"editorial-doesnt-mention-rfe-and-voa-audio-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/editorial-doesnt-mention-rfe-and-voa-audio-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial doesn’t mention RFE and VOA audio broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RFE and VOA audio services are broadcast over the air and are streamed online.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ed, who writes:<\/p>\n

The Washington Post’s Editorial Board put out this opinion piece this weekend entitled, “Russian propaganda has flooded U.S. airwaves. How about some reciprocity?”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I wrote to them at <corrections@washpost.com<\/a>> and asked why they didn’t mention the U.S. Government’s considerable state media broadcast resources in their article.<\/p>\n

Apparently they never heard of international broadcasting.<\/p>\n

Maybe you could link to this article in the SWLing Post and encourage readers to write to the Washington Post’s Editorial Board to enlighten them.<\/p>\n

It amazes me that people who work at high levels in a major U.S.-based news media outlet seem so ignorant about international broadcasting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks, Ed. It is interesting that while the article notes RFE and VOA’s TV program,\u00a0Current Time<\/a>\u00a0(which is only available online), they fail to mention the substantial resources backing RFE\/Radio Liberty and VOA’s on-air audio broadcasts that are also available to stream online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ed, who writes: The Washington Post’s Editorial Board put out this opinion piece this weekend entitled, “Russian propaganda has flooded U.S. airwaves. How about some reciprocity?” I wrote to them at <corrections@washpost.com> and asked why they didn’t mention the U.S. Government’s considerable state media broadcast resources in their article. 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