Re: [Swprograms] CCTV International CCTV-9

[jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Well put and I heartily concur.  Censorship there does not justify censorship here.

Another 2c...

John Figliozzi

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Cuff <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, October 1, 2004 5:43 am
Subject: Re: [Swprograms] CCTV International CCTV-9

> Isn't this a totalitarian approach to media -- a quid pro quo?
> 
> Shouldn't the "free markets" concept for ideas -- meaning TV 
> channels -- 
> hold sway in the USA even if it doesn't over there?
> 
> Should the US government block our access to RHC and CRI because 
> Radio Marti
> and RFA are jammed?
> 
> We shortwave listeners would howl in protest.
> 
> TV should be no exception.
> 
> If CCTV-9 shows up on Comcast in Atlanta (or anywhere else for 
> that matter)
> one should contact the local newspaper's TV editor and politely 
> tell them
> how a viewer should critically evaluate what they're seeing.
> 
> My two cents...
> 
> Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "maryanne kehoe" <atlsvo@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 1:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [Swprograms] CCTV International CCTV-9
> 
> 
> > I have my cable line-up sheet here (this is Comcast)----they 
> offer on
> > Selecto TVE Internacional, and on optional services the "Korean
> > Television Network" and "TV Japan".
> >
> > On Digital Deluxe we have Newsworld International (I think that is
> > Canadian), and something called the International Channel. I 
> don't have
> > Digital Deluxe yet but will be upgrading.
> >
> > I think it is DirecTV that offers the Russian language 
> programming, I
> > checked the schedule out, and most programs are offered that I 
> watch in
> > Moscow (except one.)  I told hubby that is the best way to "keep up"
> > with a foreign language if you listen to it constantly. I seem 
> to retain
> > more of the television speakers, since some of the domestic radio
> > talkers are way too fast for me (especially the FMers!)
> >
> > I will raise hell with Comcast if they start offering CCTV.
> >
> 
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