BBC World Service To Provide Radio For North Korea and Eritrea (bbc.com)

Ewan Palmer writes: The BBC World service has announced it will expand to serve the worst countries for press freedom as part of a plan to reach a global audience of 500 million. The British government announced its "single biggest increase in the World Service budget ever committed" and promised to invest more than $128 million by 2017/18 to the service. Along with improvements in countries such as Thailand, Russia and Somalia, they will launch radio services in North Korea and Eritrea who, according to Reporters Without Borders' 2015 World Press Freedom index, are the two worst performing countries in the world when ranked on a number of criteria including media independence, respect for the safety and freedom of journalists, and infrastructural environment in which the media operate.

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Don't they have enough propeganda to put up with?

[Anonymous Coward]

The North Koreans will listen to the BBC and think, "hey, I don't mind a bit of propaganda but this is too much!"

Re:thats great

[tehcyder]

Hey at least The North Koreans will get to listen to the same politically biased shit that us Brits do though they might find it harder to swallow.

So are you one of the people who think the BBC is a bastion of out-dated colonial-imperialist racist militarism, or one of the people who think the BBC is a hotbed of sacriligeous left-wing Islamophiles?