So if talk radio does not influence

[malaise]

why has the US spent so much money promoting radio stations like the one in Florida with non-stop anti-Castro propaganda.

What about all those radio stations in Europe?

Do these RW morons believe the crap they're spouting? Why did Karen Hughes set out to win hearts and minds if radio does not influence people.

[Cleita]

1. Yes, remember the Voice of America during the cold

war, radio programming that was beamed to Soviet Bloc nations and Russia to counter their propaganda with ours.

[justiceischeap]

2. Let's not forget about the leaflets they showered over Iraq either

If printed words can't influence people, why use them?

[GSLevel9]

3. what waste of money... Castro's still there!!!!!!!!!! nt

[kestrel91316]

4. Heck, if radio speech doesn't influence people, why in god's name

do corporations spend so freaking much money on radio advertising??????

[malaise]

5. Indeed

Shut down Madison Avenue

[robdogbucky]

6. Hotel Rwanda

See the movie and tell me whether or not hate radio influences or not

[malaise]

8. Ding ding

We own a copy

[robdogbucky]

10. Further reference to it...

Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) was a Rwandan radio station which broadcast from July 8, 1993 to July 31, 1994. It played a significant role during the April-July 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

The station's name is French for "One Thousand Hills Free Radio and Television", deriving from the description of Rwanda as "Land of a Thousand Hills". It received support from the government-controlled Radio Rwanda, which initially allowed it to transmit using their equipment.<1>

Widely listened to by the general population, it projected racist propaganda against Tutsis, moderate Hutus, Belgians, and the United Nations mission UNAMIR. It is widely regarded as having played a crucial role in creating the atmosphere of charged racial hostility that allowed the genocide to occur. A November 2009 study—by a PhD candidate at the Institute for International Economic Studies of Stockholm University—estimated that the broadcasts explained an increase in violence that amounted to 45,000 Tutsi deaths, about 9% of the total...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Libre_des_Mille_Collines

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Voice of America only works on OTHERS

not on the exceptional...

Yes I managed to get that one out without gagging.

[malaise]

11. Hahahahaha

:rofl:

[madmom]

9. Tokyo Rose ring a bell with anyone?

[malaise]

12. I don't believe she (or they) influenced anyone

Fux, Rush and Glen told me that cannot happen :rofl:

[FiveGoodMen]

13. So who the hell is unrec'ing THIS thread?

[Kingofalldems]

14. K and R to counter the unreccers

Been doing this all day.