{"id":9660,"date":"2019-01-24T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=9660"},"modified":"2019-01-25T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T02:11:49","slug":"592-guest-paul-lambert-a-short-wave-with-a-long-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/9660","title":{"rendered":"592 – Guest: Paul Lambert – A short wave with a long reach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shortwave radio has long been a weapon in the war of ideas<\/strong>, and continues to be so today, much to the surprise of many. So powerful a weapon, at times throughout history simply being caught in possession of a shortwave radio could warrant imprisonment or death. <\/p>\n

It is a significant fact that those threatened by shortwave signals have never been friends of freedom. So it is fitting that our guest, Paul Lambert<\/strong>, who sponsors Just Right on shortwave broadcasts heard around the world, should join us in a discussion about shortwave and about some of his European perspectives on many of the issues often raised on the show.<\/p>\n

As a resident of Berlin, Paul\u2019s views on the political environment within Germany offer some fascinating comparisons to the narratives heard outside that country in the major news media. From the disturbing social trends between men and women<\/strong> developing in conjunction with Germany\u2019s mass migration policies<\/strong>, to arbitrarily forcing households, employers, and even car rental agencies to pay a \u2018TV tax<\/strong>,\u2019 these trends may well become the norm in a not-too-distant North American Leftist future as well.<\/p>\n

At the heart of every issue discussed is, of course, the very \u2018right\u2019 itself to discuss any matter or issue with willing participants, and to share those discussions with willing listeners\/viewers. A \u2018TV tax\u2019 is merely one contrived way to force the unwilling to finance views and values not shared or even opposed.<\/p>\n

Ironically, Germany\u2019s \u2018TV tax\u2019 must be paid even by those who do not own a TV set, a circumstance not so unusual, given today\u2019s technological alternatives. As much of the world has adopted the internet as a means of communicating and interacting globally, traditional radio, television, and other \u2018wireless\u2019 means of transmitting signals have been abandoned in favor of the \u2018wired\u2019 technology. If a \u2018TV tax\u2019 proves anything, it is that \u2018technology changes; politicians don\u2019t.\u2019<\/p>\n

Thus, the very technology originally predicted to \u2018virtually\u2019 guarantee a means of free expression, has also fostered new ways of controlling and manipulating the expression of ideas. Thus, the \u2018wired world\u2019 has become subject to the same phenomenon \u2013 censorship – as the one already experienced in the \u2018wireless\u2019 world, particularly on shortwave. <\/p>\n

Just as they today block undesirable web sites from their \u2018internet\u2019 services, it has long been a common practice of nations like Russia and China to block radio and television signals from the Western nations and other undesirable sources.<\/p>\n

This, Paul observes, makes more significant the trend of Western nations\u2019 abandonment of their official shortwave broadcasts to the communist and socialist nations of the world. Traditionally, these broadcasts were often their only source of news and information from the \u2018outside.\u2019 Meanwhile, non-Western nations themselves are increasing their presence on shortwave, leaving the task of preaching and spreading Western values on shortwave radio to the private sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether on line or on shortwave, censorship routinely targets what\u2019s Right, leaving an open field of expression for what\u2019s Left \u2013 no matter how offensive or false.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, thanks to sponsors like Paul, shortwave can continue to be, for many, the only alternative to hear many of the ideas and perspectives that are Just Right.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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