{"id":3756,"date":"2011-12-21T23:03:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T04:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2011-12-22T07:26:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T12:26:46","slug":"gao-blasts-radio-martis-operators-for-not-provding-accurate-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3756","title":{"rendered":"GAO blasts Radio Marti&#8217;s operators for not providing accurate information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2011\/12\/14\/2545339\/us-government-agency-says-radiotv.html\">U.S. government agency says Radio\/TV Marti\u2019s bosses failed to properly inform Congres<\/a>s:\u00a0 Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>The GAO has released a harsh report saying the BBG failed to answer the most basic questions about its audience size and costs per listener.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbg.gov\/\">Broadcast Board of Governors<\/a> runs the US radio and TV government proganda opeations around the world&#8230;\u00a0 Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and others&#8230; (those not aimed at the United States).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/6LWSOKOqh2c\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/6LWSOKOqh2c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the landmark &#8220;accomplishments&#8221; of the Reagan Administration was establishing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinoticias.com\/noticias\/\">Radio\/TV Mart<\/a>i, a radio and TV service beamed into Cuba from a balloon hovering out in international waters tethered 10,000 feet in the air<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.martinoticias.com%2Fnoticias%2F&amp;act=url\">Google traslation 0f Radio Marti News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>At least today, much of the &#8220;news&#8221; concerns Republican attempts to block Cuban Americans from traveling to\/from Cuba and sending money to relatives back &#8220;home&#8221;.\u00a0 A flaw in starting a government propoganda operation is your assumption about who will be controlling the government in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latinopoliticsblog.com\/2011\/01\/05\/radio-tv-marti-democratic-inefficiency-at-its-best\/\">http:\/\/latinopoliticsblog.com\/2011\/01\/05\/radio-tv-marti-democratic-inefficiency-at-its-best\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TV Marti is resorting to trying to get its programs into Cuba by DVD and USB memory sticks.<\/p>\n<p>Sure their budget is just a drop in the bucket, but maybe it&#8217;s time to pull the plug and stop pandering to the people in Miami who carry on the pretense that someday they really want to &#8220;return&#8221; 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