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Radio Liberty, once a crude propaganda tool designed to pierce the Iron Curtain, has remade itself into as a respected news outlet. But with the Kremlin blocking it in most regions of Russia, and possible budget cuts at home, Liberty is fighting to be heard.
It seems there is a newer generation of Russians that doesn't seem to have an appreciation for media that is uncontrolled by the government. According to Anna Kachkayeva, they don't tune in except in times of national crisis.
So, this suggests that as long as the people are content, they will accept any information from their government—perhaps even lies.
Brooke might say: "Hmmm, remind you of some other country?"
Radio Free Europe Needs to Become Wi-Max Free Europe.
Radio Liberty a 'crude' propaganda tool? Seems a little perjorative. 'Crude' compared to what?
It reminds me of Susan Sontag's jab at vain and silly left-wing chattering class people - that a reader would have obtained a truer understanding of the nature of the Soviet Union by reading the "Reader's Digest" from the 1930's to the 1970s than by reading "The Nation". Since time has not been unkind to the 'hard-liners' in the West from the Cold War days, perhaps some people at 'On the Media' need to rethink and update some attitudes that seem to have frozen up around 1968 . . . Oh, I forgot. New York. Mainstream media. Never mind.
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