BBC MONITORS
"Denying The Lies Before They Are Told" \ X 7HETHER it comes over the air in Greek, Egyptian, Russian, French, German, Spanish, of any other one of the scores of languages or dialects employed by nations within the war area, news for the BBC is still news, and must be re ported. To a big staff of "monitors" falls the work of listening, to every language, through static, against all sorts of interference, intently, all day, all night. Daily, at least 150 news _ bulletins alone are " monitored." Every 24 hours, the monitors handle something like 250,000 words. These are summarised as they arrive to a daily total of about 30,000 words and the result circulated speedily among the State departments interested. So efficient has the service become that the British Government, it is suggested, is almost able to deny.a lie before it is told. On the monitors’ list is the German "Freedom Station." Latest reports suggest that this is not a low-power portable transmitter ‘dodging the Gestapo in Germany, but a high-power shortwave outefit situated somewhere outside, and using the Gestapo stunt to attract attention.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 27, 29 December 1939, Page 23
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186BBC MONITORS New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 27, 29 December 1939, Page 23
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