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BBC was trusted world wide, because listeners knew that it was funded by British tax payers, hence not beholden to local governments (even if beholden to the fo
by snotrockets 4y ago
BBC was trusted world wide, because listeners knew that it was funded by British tax payers, hence not beholden to local governments (even if beholden to the foreign office), and that generated a huge amount of goodwill towards the UK, even as the nations the BBC broadcast to still had the scars of British colonialism.
- gumby 4y agoMy mum tells me that at the end of WWII my grandmother dug up a radio buried in the garden and tuned into the Empire Service. Supposedly she was the only one with the news because owning a radio had been a capital offense during Japanese occupation. I used to listen to the world service on shortwave when I was a kid in the 70s. Lots of news about places I'd never heard of and a lot more interesting than stamp collecting.
- dredmorbius 4y agoWhich occupied territory? I'd put higher odds on Hong Kong, the Philippines, or Dutch East Indies, but there's a lot to choose from: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territories_acquired_by_the_Empire_of_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territories_acquired_b...>
- gumby 4y agoMalaya.
- dredmorbius 4y agoInteresting, thanks.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoThey have been caught using dubious tactics, such as applying dramatically different color filters on the same documentary being broadcasted in different regions.