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What I learned is that they were dreadful broadcasters.
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The speaker says they discovered that the unnamed people referred to as “they” were extremely poor at broadcasting. In ordinary terms, they failed badly at communicating or spreading information. The sentence does not identify who they were or explain what they were expected to broadcast.
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