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Radio and audio media history, commentary, analysis. Researched, written, hosted and produced by Paul Cross.
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Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
10 min
On Talk Radio and its lack of outrage over violation of constitutional rights in Ontario. From September 13, 2018. Commentary.
Note: late in the podcast I make a reference to "supreme" court; of course what I meant to say -- and is shown in the script in keeping with the facts of the story -- is "superior" court.
Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
10 min
On podcasts and podcasting in the postgrad RAMP program at Humber College, Toronto. From November 27, 2018. Fair use application of bits of Serial, The Shadows, The Daily, Ways of Hearing, Murder Was the Case, Bronzeville, Someone Knows Something, Podcast Playlist, Our Fake History. A podcast about the growing importance of podcasting.
Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
7 min
On what we learned from live reporting on JFK - 55 years later. From November 22, 2018. Fair use application of bits of audio from KBOX, Associated Press, CBS Radio, ABC Radio, NBC television.
Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
8 min
On understanding how parents might be angry, but the news is not the media's fault. From November 19, 2018. Fair use application of bits of broadcast audio from City TV, Newstalk 1010 CFRB Toronto, 680News Toronto. Refers to a criminal case, so some of the information will become dated.
Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
8 min
On the birth of two new Radio stations. From November 4, 2018. Fair use application of bits of broadcast audio from CFPT 106.5 Element FM Toronto and CKNT Sauga 960 AM Mississauga. How two new Radio stations enter the Toronto market.
Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
6 min
On Radio's right to commentary in Canada, and keeping opinion out of the news. From October 31, 20-18. Fair use application of bits of broadcast audio from Global News Radio AM640 Toronto, Newstalk 1010 CFRB Toronto. Makes reference to RTDNA Canada.
Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
12 min
How listeners missed at least 26 signs the War of the Worlds is fiction. From October 25, 2018. Produced in time for the 80th anniversary of a brilliant Radio drama which has been used against Radio by a hostile press and gullible academia ever since.
Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
13 min
How newspapers and questionable research manufactured a "panic" over a Radio show. From October, 2018. How newspapers of the day were so frightened of Radio they used sloppy reporting to manufacture negative stories about the War of the Worlds Radio broadcast. And how the research into the reaction to the show has been selectively misquoted since 1940.
Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
5 min
On being prepared for an emergency: Keep a battery-powered Radio ready. From October, 2018. Fair use application of short bits of audio from NOAA weather alert, Middleton emergency Radio ad, Emergency Broadcast System, Government of Canada "get prepared" and Ontario Association of Broadcasters PSA.
Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
6 min
On media, manipulation, and propaganda. From October 9, 2018. Follows the inauguration of a new supreme court judge in the U-S, and the staging of a ceremony.