{"id":8813,"date":"2014-02-19T11:44:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2014-02-19T11:44:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:44:41","slug":"lynley-marshall-defends-abc-overseas-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/lynley-marshall-defends-abc-overseas-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynley Marshall defends ABC overseas broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lynley Marshal (Source: ADNews.com.au)<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: The Sydney Morning Herald)<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

ABC International boss Lynley Marshall stoutly defended overseas broadcasts as a way of promoting Australia, saying the spread of social media and mobile devices in Asia has vastly extended the potential audience.<\/p>\n

She told a Melbourne audience on Monday evening the service had more than 1 million supporters on its Facebook page for learning theEnglish language.”<\/p>\n

[Continue reading…<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While this article doesn’t mention shortwave radio per se, it’s most interesting to see where Marshall must both defend Australian international broadcasting as a form of diplomacy while also defending the news agency when its reports are critical of the government.<\/p>\n

There’s an inherent tension all international broadcasters face–at least, those that are tax-payer supported–as many try to transition from being purely a mouthpiece of the government to an example of free press and democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(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. ABC International boss Lynley Marshall stoutly defended overseas broadcasts as a way […]<\/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":[56,960,3],"tags":[2595,887,2596,368],"class_list":["post-8813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-abc-nes","tag-australia","tag-lynley-marshall","tag-radio-australia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2i9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6467,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/the-age-national-times-radio-australia-may-cut-broadcasts-to-chinaindonesia\/","url_meta":{"origin":8813,"position":0},"title":"The Age National Times: Radio Australia may cut broadcasts to China\/Indonesia","author":"Thomas","date":"May 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Richard Cuff for bringing this item to my attention: (Source: The Age - National Times) The ABC could soon abandon international shortwave radio broadcasts to China and Indonesia, ending more than 70 years of beaming news and current affairs on high frequency into Asia. 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