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Exiled Russian journalists are being left “high and dry” and at risk of being stranded overseas without any legal status after the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw funding from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). The Guardian understands that some Russian journalists working for RFE/RL, which was founded during the cold war and broadcasts to countries […]
President Trump’s late-night decree Friday led to orders gutting the Voice of America and other U.S.-funded international broadcasters. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/AP Journalists showed up at the Voice of America today to broadcast their programs only to be told they had been locked out: Federal officials had embarked on indefinite mass […]
The crew of an Army helicopter, which collided with an American Airlines near Washington DC, may have read the wrong altitude before the crash and missed radio communications, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. A passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter that collided in midair on the night of January 29 and crashed […]
A BAD radio transmission may have caused the horrific mid-air crash between a passenger plane and a military helicopter that killed 67, the National Transportation Safety Board has revealed. Investigators discovered muffled messages and mismatched altitude readings after pulling data from the wreckage that plunged into the Potomac River in Washington DC on January 29. […]
Investigations into what caused the mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter are ongoing and the radio communications will be crucial in determining the cause. Moments before the collision, ATC or air traffic control can be heard on their radio directing multiple planes taking off and landing at Ronald Reagan […]
Simon Schama’s new show is, the BBC press blurb says, a “major” series, and it bears a grand and sweeping title, the Story of Us. One always wonders to whom such weighty first-person plurals refer – the answer here is the British people, in terms of how our postwar arts and culture have shaped who […]
Topline Drake filed a second action against his record label Universal Music Group in a continuation of his feud with Kendrick Lamar, this time alleging in a Texas court filing the label paid iHeartRadio to boost airplay of Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us,” following a similar filing in New York on Monday that alleged […]
Garland Nixon is a veteran journalist, with programs on YouTube and other platforms, and on WPFW in Washington. He was a co-host of the program The Critical Hour, which was heard on Radio Sputnik before that outlet disappeared from the airwaves. Garland Nixon joins us from Washington to discuss the politics that brought about the […]
Garland Nixon is a veteran journalist, with programs on YouTube and other platforms, and on WPFW in Washington. He was a co-host of the program The Critical Hour, which was heard on Radio Sputnik before that outlet disappeared from the airwaves. Garland Nixon joins us from Washington to discuss the politics that brought about the […]
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A recent mailer from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party features a Kamala Harris endorsement from a local Hispanic radio host who has a history of making wildly racist comments. The host is also the star of a Harris campaign ad running in Philadelphia, Allentown and Reading. The mailer shows Victor Martinez, owner of […]