30 bucks for a shortwave receiver, best money I ever spent on news

I got one of those cheap pocket shortwave radios a few years back, maybe 2019, to catch broadcasts from overseas when I travel. In Bolivia last spring, our local news kept saying one thing about a protest near Cochabamba, but Radio France Internationale had a totally different take. The signals were scratchy and faded in and out, but the facts lined up with what folks on the ground were whispering. That little box cost me $30 and it shredded the official story I'd have otherwise believed. Do you guys still bother with shortwave, or is satellite internet the only way to dig past the block now?

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alex52429d ago

Bolivia? You actually trusted a $30 radio over the government there and lived to tell it?