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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
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.
Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
6 min
How a few seconds audio can change the listener's interpretation of a story. From October 1, 2018. Relates to Radio and tv news coverage of U-S President Trump and his Supreme Court nominee.
Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
8 min
On Local Radio in Times of Local Crisis. From September 26, 2018 following tornadoes around Ottawa. Fair use application of short bits of broadcast audio from CFRA Ottawa, WWL New Orleans, Nationwide FM Jamaica.
Jan 3, 2019
Jan 3, 2019
7 min
How Talk Radio in Toronto made the mayor, the next mayor, and the premier. From September 20, 2018.