Word: bbc
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...network. They predicted a comeuppance when he lavished at least $600 million more on launching Sky, a satellite and cable TV service for Britain and Ireland that purveys movies, sports and 24-hr.-a-day news in competition with established broadcasters, including the government-funded BBC...
...they will follow you around.' I say, 'But I am a writer. Can't I make a contribution?' And they say, 'Well, you're not really network approved, because you haven't written anything yet.' " No wonder that Rudner is off in Britain now, shooting a series for the BBC...
With the Desert Shield coalition so subject to upheaval, patience in the gulf waiting game is wearing thin. In a BBC interview last week, British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said the anti-Saddam forces would need to decide "in a matter of weeks" whether the economic sanctions against Iraq were sufficient or whether to prepare to go to war to liberate Kuwait...
...radio, cab drivers seem to favor Arabic rock, heavily synthesized and sounding like wailing Europop to the Western ear. AM frequencies that usually broadcast the Voice of America and BBC are jammed. The Arabic service of Radio Monte Carlo serves as a bridge to the outside world and plays American rock 'n' roll. No foreign newspapers, books or magazines are available; faxes are forbidden, and foreign travel by Iraqis has again been curtailed, as it was during the war with Iran. Still, the Deputy Foreign Minister's phone plays Home on the Range when the caller is put on hold...
...FROM these voices that I learned my first lesson in the elusive nature of "truth." News reports from the Voice of America and the BBC and Radio Canada were pretty much identical. But Radio Moscow's versions of incidents such as the downing of the Korean Air Liner in 1983 were certainly different. And the notion that somebody was lying gave the whole activity a certain ominous air of danger...