{"id":8886,"date":"2014-03-06T08:32:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8886"},"modified":"2014-03-06T08:32:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:32:52","slug":"jonathan-reminds-us-that-history-keeps-repeating-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/jonathan-reminds-us-that-history-keeps-repeating-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan reminds us that history keeps repeating itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4356\" alt=\"1-RadioListening2\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2-74x100.jpg 74w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Current events in the Ukraine and Crimea remind Jonathan Marks that history&#8211;especially as broadcast over the airwaves&#8211;repeats itself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;History keeps repeating itself, both on the ground and on the radio. The theatre going on in Crimea and Ukraine at the moment remind me of other situations. But there is a difference. The programmes below [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2014\/03\/the-russians-are-comingagain.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>] were all made when the Russian&#8217;s had an external broadcasting service called Radio Moscow, later renamed as Voice of Russia. Just as Voice of America shouted at the Russia, so Voice of Russia shouted back.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2014\/03\/the-russians-are-comingagain.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading Jonathan&#8217;s full article<\/a>, complete with audio and video clips, on his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2014\/03\/the-russians-are-comingagain.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Critical Distance<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current events in the Ukraine and Crimea remind Jonathan Marks that history&#8211;especially as broadcast over the airwaves&#8211;repeats itself: &#8220;History keeps repeating itself, both on the ground and on the radio. The theatre going on in Crimea and Ukraine at the moment remind me of other situations. But there is a difference. The programmes below [click [&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":[56,960,3,288,43],"tags":[2372,246,4119,4091,64],"class_list":["post-8886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-critical-distance","tag-jonathan-marks","tag-propaganda","tag-radio-history","tag-rnw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2jk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8550,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/russia-ends-long-wave-services\/","url_meta":{"origin":8886,"position":0},"title":"Russia &#8220;quietly&#8221; ends longwave services","author":"Thomas","date":"January 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The BBC reports that Russia has \"quietly switched off nearly all of its long-wave transmitters, ending almost nine decades of broadcasting - as cost finally catches up on the medium.\" Read the full story on the\u00a0BBC News. 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