A couple of interesting phone calls
Over the past two days I've had a couple of interesting phone calls from the UK. One was from an associate producer at BBC Television who's working on a documentary called (probably a working title) The Secret War. Due to air sometime next spring on BBC1, this will be about psyops (psychological warfare operations) in Iraq. She was asking me about Radio Tikrit - the intelligence services in the US and the UK are, unsurprisingly, denying any knowledge of it. They will make either one or two programmes, depending on how much material they're able to get. Could be up to 90 minutes of airtime on the BBC's main TV channel (and no doubt in some form on BBC World) which should be enough time to explore psyops in some detail.
The other call was from someone at Peace News. They saw our page in the Media Network Hate Radio dossier about Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines in Rwanda, and want to re-print it in full in their next issue. Of course, we gave them permission to do that with appropriate credit. It's gratifying to see so many links to our media dossiers on all kinds of different Web sites. Sometimes this has resulted in feedback with new information. That's the beauty of the Internet - it creates links with people whom you'd probably never encounter in any other way.
But to make an impact you either have to do something nobody else is doing, or do something in a highly original way. And keep it updated. I've lost count of the number of Web sites I've seen which were last updated some time in 1997 - that was at the time when anybody and his dog could pass themselves off as a Web designer and set up a site for someone. But they forgot about the most important bit - content. I wonder how much these people are paying to have their six year old sites hosted, and whether anyone looks at the page view figures!
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