Re: [Swprograms] Re: Tomlinson coming up

[John Figliozzi <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That ignorance is insured and reinforced by the Smith Mundt Act.  His 
knowledge as displayed here confirms (at least to me) that overall high 
level management of US international broadcasting is in the hands of 
idiots, ne'er do wells and know nothings.

I guess we who truly appreciate and treasure shortwave and 
international broadcasting really have our work cut out for us.

...If we want to take on the challenge, that is.

John Figliozzi


On Monday, August 23, 2004, at 01:19  PM, Glenn Hauser wrote:

> Started 4 minutes late, or at 2:04 into the 3:07 hour file of the 8-23
> Washington Journal, which came right up from a link on the home page
> http://www.cspan.org  You did not miss much. As an example of where he 
> is
> coming from, Tomlinson started right off by saying it`s hard to 
> believe the US
> had not been broadcasting directly to the Arab people until Al-Hurra 
> TV began
> early this year. WHAT ABOUT THE VOICE OF AMERICA which broadcast in 
> Arabic for
> sesquidecades? And which he later admitted he had directed during 
> Reagan`s
> first term. One question, from the moderator, was how do Cubans go 
> about
> picking up Martí? He said some of them know how to cope with jamming, 
> but
> nothing about the just-started airborne relays. Makes you wonder if he 
> is even
> aware of them? Must not read DXLD. He was not confronted with any 
> challenging
> questions, surprise. Many of the calls were off-topic, listeners 
> sniping at
> each other, and those that were on-topic demonstrated an appalling 
> ignorance on
> the part of the public about international broadcasting (Glenn Hauser, 
> OK, DX
> LISTENING DIGEST)
>
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