Radio Wars: Truth, Propaganda and the Struggle for Radio AustraliaCUP Archive, 1994 M06 19 - 352 pages Radio Australia - the multilingual overseas radio service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - is little known in Australia, but is heard by millions of listeners in the Asia-Pacific region and others throughout the world. Radio Wars, first published in 1995, was the first book to tell the story of this important but unexplored aspect of Australia's international presence. Launched in 1939 as a propaganda tool, the service was for three decades caught uncomfortably between those who would use it as an instrument of foreign policy and those who would have it an icon of journalistic integrity. But the author argues that by the time of the Dili massacre, propaganda had given way to forthright and factual reporting. Spiced with anecdotal detail, Radio Wars traces a struggle that ranges from personal pettiness to events with significant political ramifications. |
Contents
The coming of détente 19701991 | 128 |
Uneasy Indonesian honeymoon 19451974 | 157 |
Collision with Indonesia 19751988 | 181 |
Indonesian massacre 19911993 | 206 |
Voice of Australia | 226 |
A future for Radio Australia? | 251 |
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Radio Wars: Truth, Propaganda and the Struggle for Radio Australia Errol Hodge No preview available - 1994 |
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