On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:15:24PM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: > VoA has spent the last N decades alternating between being > the official US propaganda arm, and officially NOT being a > US propaganda arm, just an organization we fund to make sure > there's objective news reporting receivable in Communist countries > (ok, ok, being the official US less-official propaganda arm....)
Yeah, it's weird. The VOA asked me to speak to some Polish journalists via satellite link a few years ago. I was curious and went ahead and did it; it was an entirely uncensored exchange. We had a conversation about press freedoms that was entirely unhindered and unrestricted by VOA. -Declan
