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I'm interested in what you thought of recent Voice of America broadcasts.

Please be better than just stating a low-effort question. Are you familiar with Voice of America? Can you answer your own question? I'm not familiar with it myself, but I'm from the EU. I only know that it played an effort in the cold war propaganda effort with the (then) Munich-based Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty.

What should I do better than ask a low effort question that should require a low effort but high value response?

My supposition is that the person I was responding to has not heard of voice of America broadcast recently--in spite of supporting it-- but I was hoping to be proven wrong.

It sounds like you yourself are not someone who values voice of America enough to tune in.

I'm not either. I have no idea what sort of "soft power" a radio broadcast yields these days and for whom it yields it.

It seems like it is more the cavalry ca. 1950

It sounds like you’re not actually interested, and would like to make a point instead.

I am sorry it sounds that way to you. To the best of my recollection I have never heard a voice of America broadcast and have no idea what it's doing after the Soviet Union fell.

So I was asking someone who is supporting it what hen thought about the recent broadcast.

Surely, if you support something, you have some familiarity with it?

> Surely, if you support something, you have some familiarity with it?

You'd really hope that's the same logic used when someone doesn't support something too.

Rarely are people's opinions that well informed unfortunately.

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