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In any environment, including T2K, various ‘governmental and other’ agencies that can are going to commit some resources to putting out news – AKA the Word. That news is very likely to be 'flavored' with the agendas and maybe outright propaganda of the 'patron' agency, but there is tremendous value in informing the population. Radio broadcasts will likely give the PCs some idea of the area they are entering into or the intentions of the rulers.

Voice of America, Radio Free Krakow and other radio stations, tend to mix 'entertainment' and 'news.' The intent being that locals might tune in to hear music and weather forecasts, but they cannot help but absorb some of the 'news' (which is likely to be highly slanted).

MILGOV remained close ties with FOX news networks who they sponsored and protected and often provided resources for. It was not an accident that their journalists were almost all tall and leggy blonds who looked great on camera and were influential and charismatic in person. They were known for being fawningly appreciative of the efforts of MILGOV to retain, and/or reestablish, some vestiges of order in a chaotic world. They mostly broadcast true information, though they would gloss over the warts. They were fairly effective in forecasting weather.

Of course CIVGOV's powerful AM radio stations was very hostile to MILGOV's efforts. They were known for having shrewish and ranting journalists who were often disconnected with the realities of life in America circa 2001. They often ranted against MILGOV's 'pet journalists' often going as far as calling them whores and traitors. CIVGOV's journalists were known for being divisive and ranting against the tyrants of MILGOV; while many who lived under the rule of CIVGOV despaired of the abusive efforts of the 'professional bureaucrats' of CIVGOV who were often rendered incapable of effective action by inane and irrelevant paper work and byzantine approval processes as opposed to MILGOV which tended to take direct and decisive action to accomplish objectives. In many CIVGOV areas the taxation system, enforced by ‘para-military IRS agents’ was notoriously punitive.

Then there was "Radio Free America" who used mobile AM radio stations to broadcast. They tried to be as honest as possible and often broadcast news unfavorable to either CIVGOV and MILGOV. They operated generally in the Southeast, and were loosely tied to Ted Turner. They were fairly influential in the eventual ceasing of hostilities, as Radio Free America broadcasts ridiculed the efforts spent by MILGOV and CIVGOV to oppose one another, while the Nation burned.

Anonymous News was a propaganda arm of New America.

The Baron of Memphis was known to support WQOX as a propaganda arm. The station was known for an eccentric collection of rock and roll and blatant propaganda. He understood the bread and circuses idea of gaining support. The broadcast of gladiatorial games, pitting prisoners against each other in fights to the death were notorious. This culminated in the use of rats, feral dogs, and occasionally lions from the Memphis zoo to finish off his political opponents. He used WQOX as the voice of his lottery system, where loyal supporters could win houses, cars, free food for a year, or a “wife," often the wife or daughter of his opponents. It was a famously rigged ponzee scheme; an egregious but widely popular method of wealth transfer, where opponents property was seized and stolen and ‘re-distributed" to his supporters. They avoided the term slave, but yes, that was one of the prizes they offered; sometimes members of his harem who fell out of favor were offered up for the lottery.