Translation from the original in catalan, one of the few articles which said just the true.

What made the Pals station to fall in misfortune?

There are some interest behind Pals closed, which all together helped to sentence not only the Pals station but all of the Radio Liberty chain. from radio Liberty, nowadays(august 2002) there are only a few offices in the United States and a radio studio in Prague, which suplies some programs. To understand this process, we have to see, because it has not been done yet,  the diference between Radio Liberty and VOA, both  into the conglomerate of IBB.

Radio liberty was a private organization funded and subsidized by the United States Congress, while the second was considered as an organization which also subsidized, but it has some else benefits. There is the paradox, that both organizations are at the American propaganda services system, but some content of  of Radio Liberty's programs were not to the executive's liking. Radio Liberty and VOA are cast as rivals, fighting for the audience, fight which had a clear loser: Radio Liberty. When the unification process into IBB began, the main responsibility jobs were for Voice of America, and the beginning of the end.

 

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