Very true. People invented radio and within 50 years a guy almost became governor of Kansas on the platform of “Doctors are lying to you, my goat testicle transplant cure does cure all! Please listen to my radio station for more. Ignore the people I killed”
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Probably worth noting that the era of fascism was also the era of radio, and the era of Jim Crow was backed by pro-segregation newspapers.
Omar Wasow
Indeed. I think it's hugely underrated that broadly speaking, the era of democracy is the era of radio and television, and of shared cultural references and understanding. Becoming a billion tiny villages talking past each other about curated news and niche shows is not good!
Stephen Bush
One of my favourite pods cheerily told me they had 3,500 listeners this morning.
I would have bet the listener #s would have been in the tens of thousands at the very least. We're so atomised.
Gold Blend couple were all over the tabloids ("I bet they're shagging"). Streaming has broken us.
It's mind-blowing to think that this era of 'the advert series is in of itself a soap opera' has thousands upon thousands more viewers than, say, 'The Pitt'.
Todd Kendall
Stephen Bush
Obviously loved Anthony in Buffy but I don't think this glorious work from back when advertising was a top tier creative medium is getting enough play youtube.com/playlist?lis...
