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Freedom of the Press?

kf4rca said:
If you think freedom of the press is only a problem in third world countries, read this:

https://www.voanews.com/a/4940660.html

The San Francisco police officers' association has called for the chief to resign.
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I knew that this topic was brought up on the national level when it came to Wikileaks.
but in this case the topic is on the local level on how city officials handled the reporter's case on the release of Jeff Adachi's death records.
 
VOA is on its way to being spun off on its own. Many governments' broadcasters have been privatized. Transmitters for hire.
VOA content is now available to domestic broadcasters- which used to be a no-no.
Don't know if you remember about 20 years ago, VOA News Now. It was fast paced news service, much like CNN, that was on shortwave. It could be heard at several places across the dial 24/7.
But they got into trouble in 2001 when they decided they were going to be "fair and balanced" and aired an interview with a Taliban leader intermixed with President Bush's 9/11 speech to Congress.
Wasn't a good idea. As a result VOA oversight was shifted from the US Information Agency to the State Dept.
I suspect at some point we'll hear spots on the VOA newscasts.
 
I agree that something about this raid does not pass the smell test.

That being said, a lot of journalists act as if they are privileged characters.
They are not. They are subject to the same laws and rules as the rest of us,
which include having their premises searched with a legally obtained warrant.
 
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kf4rca said:
VOA is on its way to being spun off on its own. Many governments' broadcasters have been privatized. Transmitters for hire.
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Where has this happened?
 
DavidEduardo said:


Where has this happened?
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As an SWL for more than 50 years, I'm curious to see specifics on this, too. I've witnessed many international government broadcasters leaving the air, but AFAIK none of them kept their transitters active and pimped them out to private entities. Radio Canada Internationak's New Brunswick array, the Radio Netherlands transmitters in the Netherlands and the Antilles, Radio Sweden, Radio Prague, Radio RSA, even the BBC World Service ... the transmitters were turned off and remain silient to this day, if they even still exist.
 
Actually you may be right. RCI (Radio Canada) used their Sackville relay for China Radio Int'l but a recent search revealed their contracts were terminated.
The transmitter has been dissassembled:
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2019/01/14/former-rci-transmitter-site-slow-transformation/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/transmitter-sold-former-jail-1.4535290
I had also heard that VOA bought time on former Radio Moscow transmitters at one time. Money talks.
I do know that the former DW transmitter at Nauen Germany is used for the mighty KBC broadcast once a week.
The VOT (Voice of Turkey) also uses that frequency and maybe from the same transmitter.
 
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