East Europe/RFL-RL/Internet

The Prague Daily Monitor: Radio Free Europe looking for new methods to spread information

"The goals of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE) remain similar to those in the Cold War times and only methods and strategy are changing, adviser to the station Ross Johnson told the Czech News Agency (CTK) yesterday. RFE is marking its tenth anniversary of broacasting from the Czech capital."

"Following extending of its broadcasts to include the countries of the Middle East and Asia the station is now seeking to improve its Internet offer. Televised versions of some of its programmes have even appeared in Ukraine and Bosnia, said Johnson, adding that although there were many information channels in the world that did not necessarily mean better access to information. He said that the use of RFE's websites was rapidly growing also in such countries as Belarus, Uzbekistan or Iran, adding that spread of the information via the Internet was maybe one of the most important moments in its development, but only one of the many methods that compete with other sources of information."