Trump cuts Voice of America funding/staff

[flogger]

I never knew they still existed. Link to short history of VOA dating back to 1942.

Great idea in its time?

https://youtu.be/ybQFIR3G3AE

[rfenster]

Ouch. I can't drive 55 is one of Sammy Hagar's biggest hits from that album.

[eddiememphis]

I never knew they still existed. Link to short history of VOA dating back to 1942.

Great idea in its time?

https://youtu.be/ybQFIR3G3AE

Yes, in it's time is was a valuable to let people in oppressed regimes that there is a alternative form of government and there is hope for change.

These days, it's seem kinda silly. Not many people gather 'round the shortwave radio to hear it's message. They have a presence on the net but if people have unrestricted access, there are millions of other sources of news. If the government is censoring capitalist propaganda, they will block VOA as well.

A relic of the cold war, time and technology has passed it by.

[BushMasterBoy]

They need money to rebuild this radio. We are now a spacefaring nation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory





Per Ardua ad Astra

[battlemidget]

VoA had such terrible news, I figured it was coded messages for someone in a communist attic doing comms with one-time pads.