I work at AFRTS and have for the last almost 20 years and there is no censorship or modification done of the shows gathered from the major commercial US radio networks that we re-broadcast.

Doesn't happen. So if you can trust ABC or FOX radio's sources that's who we use.

I'll never forget years ago listening to the blow by blow of the Falklins War on the BBC shortwave.  For obvious reasons ( we were allies with both sides), our media was barely covering it.  

That being said, having been on this forum since the beginning, thinking a SW radio is a primary information source in some SHTF emergency is in top ten mistakes I see people make.  Following the logic of prepare for the most likely scenario first and least likely last,  the odds are way greater in some emergency you are going to need local information more than international information.  

This really isn't 1939.  In fact, I'll take you one step farther, I'd recommend a hand held battery operated TV.  Many times you can tell way more from the images than what the talking heads want you to know.  That being said, our news casters are all pussies now, all social agenda first, they tend to stay in and stray greatly from the Action News aspect than in years past.  Anyway, major weather event around here, power goes, first thing we grab is our battery operated TV.  It feeds you a lot of information very quckly with no effort and at those times you got better things to do than browse the internet on a cellphone/cellphone link.  

Anyway a tornado bearing down on your house, Earthquake rattling your windows, or blizzard burying you deep, you aren't immediately going to need or want to know what's going on half way around the world.  

Not that the BBC is much different, I haven't seen the media in the US so FOS can't believe anything they write or broadcast since the Vietnam War.  Back then it was government fed the lies, they ate it up, and now its they make the crap up themselves.  A SW is a good way to get news from a different perspective.  This was really fun during the cold war when the Soviets were broadcasting their propaganda news their counterpart to ours.  

I'll end by saying I know everyone is all sold on their nice digital radios and think the analog stuff is stoneage stuff but man there use to be some un-fricken believable radios out there.  Amazing tuners with course, fine, and sideband adjustment that you could hook up to the external antenna from hell.  When it comes to trying to listen to the whisper from across the world, things like your tuner has a digital threshold becomes inhibiting.  If you have the time to fool with it, like truly some nuclear holocaust or pandemic, those old radios from the 60's and 70's are simply fantastic, amazing what you can listen to.  

............but hey, Buddy Holly played on the radio in LA or Chciago isn't any different than Buddy Holly on local Wlocalbullshit radio. The content has become very homogenized.  AP lies are AP lies.  

Tj