Post by Moses on Jan 4, 2005 11:53:06 GMT -5
Media Highlights of 2004
Some of the stories from our Weblog
by Andy Sennitt, 22 December 2004
2004 was the first full year that we have recorded all the significant media stories in the Weblog. We have published well over 1000 items this year, of which the following are but a small sample. We’ve divided them into three sections:
International broadcasting
[/center]It was another year of depressing news as international broadcasting on shortwave continues to downsize, and is not always replaced by services on other platforms.....
The Voice of America announced the end of regular programmes in Bulgarian, Estonian, Czech, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak and Slovenian, along with many broadcast feeds to affiliate stations in Central and South-eastern Europe. It also made substantial cuts to its English output. This led to a petition being sent to members of Congress signed by more than 460 VOA employees - nearly half the workforce. The petition accused the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) of "dismantling the nation’s radio beacon" and called on Congress to investigate the Board. It accused the BBG of launching new services in the Middle East with no editorial accountability at the expense of VOA programmes serving the same areas, and cutting back on broadcasts to Eastern Europe and in English around the world.
(rest at link)