It's not the 1940's anymore.
I have been always fascinated by the radio.
In my younger days, back in Cuba, American radio was a window to a world that I knew as if I were blind, no visuals, just sounds, voices, and music. In the eighties, Radio Marti was a good point of reference, as the many programmes of the BBC, The Voice of America, and the Deutsche Welle. Nothing like getting one of those bulky Russian radios, built to receive the harangues broadcasted from the Kremlin to the entire Eastern Block from Mittel Europa to the Pacific.
Fortunately, you didn't listen to those in Cuba.
Well, you were supposed to listen to kagasstro's mad ramblings, which lasted for hours and hours on end. But having those powerful radio receivers you could just do what I used to do, ignore kagasstro altogether and tune to American radio stations, most of them I am sure they weren't aware of their wide and clear reception in Cuba. Once can always listen to Trenchtown Rock from Jamaica as well... KAOY from Arkansas, WQAM from Miami, and so many others. Suddenly, kagasstro was kicked out your world and that was a nice feeling....
Back to the title. It's not the 1940's anymore.
My grandparents used to listen to war programming during WWII. They knew by heart the voices and accents of FDR, Churchill, and many others. The radio was the mass media by excellence. Then TV came into the picture. As the eighties song went, video killed the radio star.
It's amazing that still the President addresses the US via radio.
I personally would love for the President to have a blog.
The internet is omnipresent, right now, and the written word is more permanent, and the public is less likely to spend time listening to the radio while they are not driving.
I can tell you something; TV Marti is not seen in Cuba. Radio Marti is plagued with interference and the government snitches can tell if you're listening. If the electricity goes off, well, then you miss your programme if you didn't buy batteries in the black market. The internet is mostly silent. One doesn't even have to have a lamp on in the room. A simple curtain can muffle the luminiscence from the computer screen and most importantly the material and images can be printed and redistributed.
I checked with my sources and they tell me that our blog is banned. Which let fidelito scratching his head and pulling his beard off, since some of the graphics have been printed and passed around. How? Well, that's something to kagasstro's goons to figure out. I won't tell them! They read our blog and some other blogs and material from all of us is regularly quoted and plagiarized in the communist press. We have not only invaded Cuba, but also, the "bloggade" has been established and the commies are feeling the effects.
So, let's update the transmisions. A White House official blog will not only be read in the U.S. but it would have a very interested audience in Cuba. Reagan called for the end of communism in his famous "open mic" joke about the Evil Empire. Bush should declare the wet-foot dry-foot abolished via blog-cast. We can do it for him. And while he is at that, he can just declare kagasstro gone.
In my younger days, back in Cuba, American radio was a window to a world that I knew as if I were blind, no visuals, just sounds, voices, and music. In the eighties, Radio Marti was a good point of reference, as the many programmes of the BBC, The Voice of America, and the Deutsche Welle. Nothing like getting one of those bulky Russian radios, built to receive the harangues broadcasted from the Kremlin to the entire Eastern Block from Mittel Europa to the Pacific.
Fortunately, you didn't listen to those in Cuba.
Well, you were supposed to listen to kagasstro's mad ramblings, which lasted for hours and hours on end. But having those powerful radio receivers you could just do what I used to do, ignore kagasstro altogether and tune to American radio stations, most of them I am sure they weren't aware of their wide and clear reception in Cuba. Once can always listen to Trenchtown Rock from Jamaica as well... KAOY from Arkansas, WQAM from Miami, and so many others. Suddenly, kagasstro was kicked out your world and that was a nice feeling....
Back to the title. It's not the 1940's anymore.
My grandparents used to listen to war programming during WWII. They knew by heart the voices and accents of FDR, Churchill, and many others. The radio was the mass media by excellence. Then TV came into the picture. As the eighties song went, video killed the radio star.
It's amazing that still the President addresses the US via radio.
I personally would love for the President to have a blog.
The internet is omnipresent, right now, and the written word is more permanent, and the public is less likely to spend time listening to the radio while they are not driving.
I can tell you something; TV Marti is not seen in Cuba. Radio Marti is plagued with interference and the government snitches can tell if you're listening. If the electricity goes off, well, then you miss your programme if you didn't buy batteries in the black market. The internet is mostly silent. One doesn't even have to have a lamp on in the room. A simple curtain can muffle the luminiscence from the computer screen and most importantly the material and images can be printed and redistributed.
I checked with my sources and they tell me that our blog is banned. Which let fidelito scratching his head and pulling his beard off, since some of the graphics have been printed and passed around. How? Well, that's something to kagasstro's goons to figure out. I won't tell them! They read our blog and some other blogs and material from all of us is regularly quoted and plagiarized in the communist press. We have not only invaded Cuba, but also, the "bloggade" has been established and the commies are feeling the effects.
So, let's update the transmisions. A White House official blog will not only be read in the U.S. but it would have a very interested audience in Cuba. Reagan called for the end of communism in his famous "open mic" joke about the Evil Empire. Bush should declare the wet-foot dry-foot abolished via blog-cast. We can do it for him. And while he is at that, he can just declare kagasstro gone.
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I was listening to shortwave radio Friday night for the first time in years. Found a particularly strong, but fading, signal and listened for a few minutes - Radio Moscow en espanol. I had to laugh.
That's why we tunned to the Western services, specially the Voice of America and Radio Marti... Radio Moscow was so ridiculous and sad... Not to talk about the bad music. The best they had, well... it was French pop. God had mercy on us, and let us listen to ZZTOP and the like to counterbalance the pain...
Pax :
Do they still speak in that god awfull accent that sounds like they have chronic acid reflux ?
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