Re: [Swprograms] China People's Daily opinion on the BBC & Arabic TV

[Ted Schuerzinger <fedya@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx> graced hard-core-dx.com with these
words of wisdom: 

> OK, I'll bite...how do they differ?

One ongoing story I mentioned in a letter of mine that ROI recently read 
on their mailbox program is the Slovenian minority sign issue.  In one of 
the provinces (Kärnten, if memory serves), there's a Slovene minority 
that's trying to get Slovene added to place name signs in towns with a 
Slovene population of over 10%, while the state government wants to limit 
it to those towns with a 25% or greater Slovene population.  "Report from 
Austria" has been covering every twist and turn of the story (which I 
believe is currently scheduled to go before one of the EU-wide courts), 
while I can't recall the last time I heard mention of it in the German 
service.

The English service also seems to spend a more time covering the various 
international conferences that take place in Vienna than the German 
service does, but I'd bet part of that is due to the language issue -- 
they can more easily find people with an excellent command of English at 
such conferences -- and the fact that the English and German services are 
going to have slightly different remits.  Much of the German service is a 
rebroadcast of domestic programs, with the service being targeted at 
Austrians abroad, while the English service is designed first and foremost 
for people in other countries.

I'm not trying to suggest that either service has an axe to grind or is 
not politically independent (at least, in either case not to any greater 
extent than the other major Western European state broadcasters), just 
that the difference is curious.

> Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA
> 
> On 11/2/05, Ted Schuerzinger <fedya@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of perceived bias, but in a different way: As one who can
>> speak German, I enjoy listening to ÖRF1 news before Report from
>> Austria.  I'm always interested in the different coverage of the
>> news in the German- language news and the English news in Report
>> from Austria. 
>>
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