Media in TW2000

[Blink_Dog]

I was thinking about this while reviewing posts in the Papal thread of this forum. The idea being how quickly and often would people get news about places further away.

It would be safe to assume that there are no more papers or TV stations still running. I would think that some reasonably stable ares would have shortwave and low output radio stations. Anyone ever put in a regular station that characters could receive some news?

[CDAT]

I would guess that papers would still be around, maybe not daily. More like in times of old, but I am guessing that would be one of the more common types of media.

[Silent Hunter UK]

You'd probably have some active radio hams out there relaying information and news when they could.

[ArmySGT.]

Reuters and AP News....... News collaboration efforts by big syndicates employing free lancers and a few paid correspondents. Most news from far away comes over surviving telephone cables. So faxes and teletypes are back in fashion. Cable is remarkably robust and well distributed. Cable (phone cable) would survive the nuclear exchange by routing around points of failure. Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific cable would exist for the same reasons. Surviving cable would be protected by a mutual agreement not to break or destroy any cable not strictly military or government to keep trade, weather, and seismic or natural disaster warnings free flowing. Even hostile governments have trade through third parties . The U.S. bought NAZI Germany ball bearing for piston engines through Brazil and Argentina until the ball bearing factories were bombed.

[pmulcahy11b]

Reporters are untrustworthy. Kill any of them you find!

[.45cultist]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Reporters are untrustworthy. Kill any of them you find!

Channeling your inner Sherman?