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AUG 13, 2008
BBG Should Enhance SW, Not Replace It
Radio News
One million real-time listeners, small by shortwave standards, entail very high cost bandwidth requirements on the Internet. The competition, by start-up bloggers for example, could not possibly afford being on shortwave radio. The business example should be: “Go where your competition can not follow.” The U.S. government can afford shortwave radio.
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AUG 12, 2008
Arab Network To Sample Flavor Of West During Dem Convention
Arizona Central
An estimated 120 million households in 80 countries will get a selective snapshot of the West when Al Jazeera English network pays a visit to Golden for two days during the Democratic National Convention. "Our objective is to present a slice of mainstream America," said Julian Ingle, political program editor for Al Jazeera's Washington bureau.
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JUL 25, 2008
‘Stop Off-Shoring of BBC Hindi Service’
Business Standard
Two British trade unions have launched an online petition as part of their campaign to prevent the BBC from off-shoring jobs and programmes of the Hindi, Urdu and other languages to south Asia..."We believe that the employment conditions being offered exploit journalists in developing nations, and may not give proper protection for their safety, and that the BBC is surreptitiously dismantling the World Service in a way that may damage its editorial credibility."
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JUL 24, 2008
Once Media-Shy Taliban Go High Tech In Propaganda War
Reuters
The once media-shy Taliban have gone hi-tech with DVDs, mobile phone messages, ring-tones, emails and a website to publicise their exploits and lambast their Afghan and Western enemies, a think-tank said on Thursday...With their own website, magazines, DVDs, audio cassettes, pamphlets and mobile phones, the ICG says, the Taliban are able to capitalise on mistakes made by the government and its allies and reveal their own "inflated tales of battlefield exploits."
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JUL 24, 2008
Taliban using media network to undermine government
The Globe and Mail
The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia's views through songs available as ring tones, according to a report released Thursday.
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JUL 24, 2008
Senate Panel Seeks to Reinstate Voice of America Cuts
ProPublica
Earlier this month, we reported that the Voice of America (VOA) was planning to cut seven radio language services. The cuts came partly as a result of the administration's emphasis on broadcasting to the Muslim world...Now the Senate panel that oversees its funding has recommended reinstating funding for the affected services -- though the move seems unlikely to prevent the cuts.
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JUL 23, 2008
Al Jazeera English Expands Spanish Reach
Zawya
Al Jazeera English has unveiled a new contract with TSF On Sat that takes the channel to over 3.2 million households across Spain on the Hispasat satellite network. Al Jazeera English (AJE) currently reaches over 120 million households worldwide.
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JUL 21, 2008
Update: Paper Responds to Alhurra Payment Story
ProPublica
A number of weeks ago, we published a story about payments made by Alhurra, the U.S. government-funded Arabic news channel, to guest commentators on the network...the paper responded today with a comment from executive editor Stephen Smith: "we expect members of our staff to not accept remuneration for activities that would in any way compromise their work or even create an appearance of a conflict of interest.
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JUL 17, 2008
Bill Would Amend Smith-Mundt Act, Let Al-Hurra Broadcast In U.S.
InsideDefense.com (subscription)
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) is poised to introduce a bill amending a Cold War-era law restricting how the U.S. government communicates with Americans at home, which could open up U.S. airwaves to al-Hurra, a controversial U.S.-sponsored Arabic-language satellite TV network.
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Americas
JUL 16, 2008
Report Blasts Agency Over Martí No-Bid Deals
The Miami Herald
The investigating branch of the U.S. Congress has accused the federal agency that oversees radio and television broadcasts to Cuba of awarding more than $1 million in contracts to two Miami news outlets without following regular contract-bid procedures.
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