Bourke Hickenlooper Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/bourke-hickenlooper/ Cold War Radio History Sat, 22 Jul 2023 20:42:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-CWRM-Mic2022-32x32.jpg Bourke Hickenlooper Archives - Cold War Radio Museum https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/tag/bourke-hickenlooper/ 32 32 USCGC Courier – Voice of America Radio Transmitting Ship – Reception Problems and False VOA Audience Claims PART II https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/uscgc-courier-voice-of-america-radio-transmitting-ship-reception-problems-and-false-voa-audience-claims-part-ii/ https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/uscgc-courier-voice-of-america-radio-transmitting-ship-reception-problems-and-false-voa-audience-claims-part-ii/#respond Wed, 11 May 2022 22:09:13 +0000 https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=12140 Changing Listener Views of VOA Programs By 1952, pro-Soviet propagandists were long gone from the Voice of America and were replaced by anti-communist refugee journalists, although as late as 1951 listeners in Poland were still complaining in letters secretly sent to the United States that VOA Polish programs were “uninteresting, drab, bureaucratic in tone, unconvincing.” […]

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