Before the internet and cable TV, the main way to obtain international news was shortwave radio. I remember being on my original IBM PC at night in the early 1980s while listening to English language international news on stations such as Deutche Welle from West Germany, Radio Netherlands and of course the BBC. If there was not an English news broadcast playing a fun place to listen was Radio Grenada which had revolutionary raga and where the announcer would announce "It's party time" in a southern Caribbean accent. Sadly the revolutionary raga ended after the US invasion of Grenada.
But the most interesting radio if you were well versed in the total news was the English language news on Radio Moscow. The news on Radio Moscow was very interesting. What masters of Radio Moscow told you was somewhat true, but they always seems to leave out certain facts. By leaving out certain facts the uneducated had a certain impression of what was the story. But when you put in the unstated facts the story had in many cases a very different impression. The masters of radio Moscow were masters of manipulation of the story to sway the population.
Listening to Trump ‘pontificate’ is a great example of the old Radio Moscow methodology to manipulate. The sad part is the US population has good sources of real information, but it seems the Trump crowd lives in a bubble where they only listen to sources such as Trump.