ExtractLonán Ó Briain On state-society relations in Vietnam, Benedict Kerkvliet suggests these seemingly disparate entities should be viewed together as active arenas for debate: “Rather than trying to say that one entity is part of the state and another entity is part of society, a more fruitful approach is to think of arenas in which boundaries, rights, jurisdictions, and power distribution between state and societal agencies are debated, contested, and resolved (at least temporarily) ” (Kerkvliet 2001: 240) . One example of these political arenas can be observed in the state media apparatus, where Kerkvliet notes “an undercurrent of debate” (Kerkvliet 2001: 253) . Studies on media broadcasting elsewhere have noted similar debates where, instead of functioning as a listless vehicle for information, agents within the system take actions that change the course of history. As Bronhman observes for radio in the Caribbean: “wireless and broadcasting proffered new repertoires of...