Cross Talk: Season Four, Episode Nine

paulcrosstoronto’s Podcast · Mar 13, 2020 · 9m

"On Covid-19 in the News". From March 12, 2020. One could make the case that "everything changed" in the 24 hours connecting March 11th and 12th. Professional sports, concerts, public events, even tv talk shows started disappearing in the hours after the World Health Organization started describing the Covid-19 corona virus spread as a pandemic. Radio must remain and keep on doing what it does; we need that sense of carrying on. In this episode, a thumbnail sketch of some aspects of news coverage on radio and the atmosphere that had been created around coverage in North America by the actions…