If you look at the charter of the group, which I wrote, internet audio from
broadcasters with a tradition in shortwave is within scope.

Richard Cuff
Group Overlord


On Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 3:25 PM Paul B. Walker, Jr. <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I've always wondered why this stuff gets posted it, it often has nothing
> to do with shortwave in a club/group/email that is entirely shortwave
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:18 PM John A. Figliozzi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Most radio listening takes place in the car or while doing other things
>> that allow freedom for the ear, but not the eyes and hands.  Podcasts
>> permit a shift of listening time from a set appointment to virtually any
>> convenient occasion.  I do it while “power walking” (most) every morning in
>> what sometimes seems like a vain attempt to diminish the results of sitting
>> behind a desk for 35 years.  The act of putting one foot in front of the
>> other can be pretty monotonous and by “podding along” while plodding along
>> the mind also gets something useful to do.  So it is with the time spent
>> commuting to work day after day.
>>
>> Podcasting has expanded almost exponentially so very quickly that it can
>> justly be considered a medium all its own.  Therefore, the attempt here has
>> to be to highlight only a small portion of it, just one corner where
>> excellence reigns.
>>
>> Some of the best radio comes from the public networks of the UK,
>> Australia, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S.  Apart from the
>> originating program’s web site, most programs are made available through
>> any number of other amalgamation sources such as iTunes and TuneIn.
>>
>> Admittedly, these are thoroughly subjective recommendations, but my
>> interests and tolerance for incompatible views are pretty wide-ranging.
>> Here’s another in a continuing series of small samplings, offered in a 90
>> minute scope (more or less):
>>
>> — —
>>
>> “The New Wave of Political Magazines"
>> THE MEDIA SHOW - BBC Radio 4
>> Magazine sales are up for some titles, with a resurgence of those that
>> deal with news and current affairs. What's their secret? Also in the
>> programme, why campaigners say CGTN, the English language news channel from
>> China, should lose its Ofcom licence to broadcast in the UK.  Amol Rajan is
>> joined by Jason Cowley, editor The New Statesman, Rosie Blau, editor 1843,
>> Christopher Montgomery, co-editor The Critic, and Peter Dahlin, director of
>> Safeguard Defenders. (29”)
>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fq8b
>>
>> “'Why did the USA fail in its initial coronavirus response?"
>> THE INQUIRY - BBC World Service
>> ‘It’s a failing, let's admit it’ says top health official, Dr Anthony
>> Fauci. He’s talking about the fact that it took a month for a working
>> coronavirus test to be rolled out around the country, while other countries
>> were testing thousands of people. How was this allowed to happen? In this
>> edition of The Inquiry, we explore the ways in which the US lost valuable
>> time in dealing with the coronavirus and how their health system could make
>> things more difficult still.  (25”)
>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csythj
>>
>> "AI and moral intuition: use it or lose it?”
>> THE PHILOSOPHER’S ZONE - ABC RN
>> Artificial intelligence is helping us to make all sorts of decisions
>> these days - sometimes this can be fun, convenient and a real time saver..
>> But what about moral decisions, or decisions with moral consequences - in
>> law enforcement, say, or judicial proceedings, or public surveillance? The
>> potential consequences for human rights are troubling. And if we outsource
>> our moral intuition to AI, do we risk becoming morally de-skilled? (29”)
>>
>> https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/ai-and-moral-intuition:-use-it-or-lose-it/12075060
>>
>> __ __
>>
>>
>> A monthly (well, mostly monthly) compendium of these newsletters, plus on
>> occasion additional pertinent material, is now published in The CIDX
>> Messenger, the monthly e-newsletter of the Canadian International DX Club
>> (CIDX).  For further information, go to www.cidx.ca
>>
>> John Figliozzi
>> Editor, "The Worldwide Listening Guide”
>> NEW! 184 page 9th EDITION available NOW from Universal Radio [
>> universal-radio.com], Amazon [amazon.com], Ham Radio Outlet [hamradio.com
>> ]
>>
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