RNW: End of an era
For decades radio world services have broadcast to its citizens scattered around the globe so that they could listen to the news in their own language and not miss out on those important stories from back home. Simultaneously, these services focussed on areas of the world where media repression or armed conflict prevented balanced intakes...
Is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth based at RNW?
One could think that a certain Winston Smith worked at Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) by comparing the screen shots of its main news article taken within a span of 15 minutes. As reports that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had died started circulating, RNW’s newsdesk rushed in to publish the news as a confirmed fact: ‘Gaddafi Killed’,...
