{"id":7314,"date":"2013-09-16T16:05:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7314"},"modified":"2013-09-16T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T20:05:18","slug":"newsweek-can-radio-turn-the-tide-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/newsweek-can-radio-turn-the-tide-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek: Can radio turn the tide in Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Syria_orthographic_projection.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7315\" alt=\"Syria_(orthographic_projection)\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Syria_orthographic_projection-298x300.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Syria_orthographic_projection-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Syria_orthographic_projection-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Syria_orthographic_projection-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Syria_orthographic_projection.jpg 679w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a>Thanks to <a title=\"The Prof's Radio Kitchen\" href=\"http:\/\/theradiokitchen.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Professor<\/a> for sharing this brilliant article by Mike Giglio in <a title=\"The Daily Beast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2013\/09\/13\/radio-and-the-battle-for-syria-s-hearts-and-minds-and-ears.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Beast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Twenty minutes\u2014this was the small window of time that Majid (not his real name) usually gave himself to broadcast his radio dispatches and then flee. The Syrian was making a name for himself as a bold, young journalist in Damascus, venturing into contested neighborhoods in the capital\u2019s war-torn suburbs to deliver his reports. The broadcasts were low tech and old-fashioned, produced for an upstart radio station called Al-Watan FM, or \u201cThe Homeland FM,\u201d and went out on the local airwaves, crackling into a sphere otherwise tightly controlled by the regime. Any Damascus resident scanning the dial could tune in.<\/p>\n<p>It was dangerous work. Pushing into the capital\u2019s FM frequencies meant transmitting an easy-to-track signal from within the city. Government soldiers or regime thugs often came looking for Majid when he went on the air, so he tried to be quick\u2014setting up, going live, then packing up and disappearing within the span of 20 minutes.&#8221;[<a title=\"Continue reading\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2013\/09\/13\/radio-and-the-battle-for-syria-s-hearts-and-minds-and-ears.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"The Daily Beast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2013\/09\/13\/radio-and-the-battle-for-syria-s-hearts-and-minds-and-ears.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading the full article in Newsweek&#8217;s The Daily Beast online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to The Professor for sharing this brilliant article by Mike Giglio in The Daily Beast: &#8220;Twenty minutes\u2014this was the small window of time that Majid (not his real name) usually gave himself to broadcast his radio dispatches and then flee. The Syrian was making a name for himself as a bold, young journalist in [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,297],"tags":[1584,499,18,1924,1294],"class_list":["post-7314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","tag-fm","tag-free-speech","tag-radio","tag-syria","tag-the-professor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1TY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55615,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/carlos-shortwave-art-and-recording-of-vatican-radio-february-6-2023-turkey-syria-earthquake\/","url_meta":{"origin":7314,"position":0},"title":"Carlos\u2019 Shortwave Art and recording of Vatican Radio (February 6, 2023&#8211;Turkey\/Syria Earthquake)","author":"Thomas","date":"February 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff, who shares\u00a0his radio log art of Radio Vatican. 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