RCI?
is that radio cuba international?
i find the bbc to be very unbiased and accurate and informative as well.
i still grab radio cuba once in a while and I have found their news shows to 
be quite good.
no propaganda to speak of and they have  a good world view.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: breaking news!


>
> Colin,
>
> In the 80s and 90s, I got much of my news from RCI, and found it a very
> refreshing departure from what passes for news here in the U.S.  Sadly, I
> don't hear much from RCI on shortwave any more, so I don't know if the
> broadcasts are as good as they were when I was listening.  I've heard that
> they're not, and I hope that's not true.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 19:51
> Subject: Re: breaking news!
>
>
>> yes, but then what would sighted people do with all that extra time they
>> have not spent glued to the tv hi hi?
>> one doesn't get adequit news from tv anyway.  The audience obviously has 
>> a
>> tiny attention span because most news shows spend less then 30 seconds on
>> each subject before racing on to the next one.
>> ide rather use the money i would spend on tv service on online newspaper
>> subscriptions...not only that, rss readers are great things for skimming
>> headlines and accessing websites with timely and accurate information.
>> the written word tends to be so much more informative then some 30 
>> second,
>> or 15 second spot on tv.
>> 73
>> Colin, V A6BKX
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Colleen Roth" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:38 PM
>> Subject: Re: breaking news!
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> They probably didn't make the boxes accessible because they didn't even
>>> think about blind people watching television.
>>> Personally, I do not think there is much worth watching on Television 
>>> any
>>> way.
>>> Today I watched the Rriginal Version of the Miracle Worker because I
>>> wanted someone to see it who had never viewed the original one with Anne
>>> Bancroft and Paty Duke.
>>> What a trat!
>>> The only other thing worth watching is the News only because we need to
>>> know what is going on sometimes.
>>> Give me the Walnons, Little House on the Prairie, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, 
>>> etc.
>>> You get the idea.
>>> The switch is supposed to make better use of the Spectrum.
>>> We should just eliminate most of the junk on TV.
>>> Colleen, N8TNV;
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Robert Clark <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Date: 2009/02/13 00:13:16
>>> Subject: Re: breaking news!
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      "Sure wish someone could have thought to make those boxes
>>>> accessible-was
>>>>
>>>>     If "they" thought of everything, we would not have anything to
>>>> advocate
>>>> for.  ;were
>>>>
>>>> inin---*  inin---*  inin---*  inin---*  inin---*
>>>> "Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong,
>>>> even
>>>> if
>>>> everyone is for it."
>>>>  -- William Penn
>>>> Robert & Dreamer Doll  ke7nwn
>>>> E-mail-
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>> Home Page-
>>>> http://webpages.charter.net/dog_guide/
>>>
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