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Season 10, Episode 1
On media literacy: an introduction to the No Embargo podcast
From October 30, 2026
I'm launching Season 10 of Cross Talk during Media Literacy Week in Canada and an international media literacy awareness campaign by UNESCO.
What happened when the War of the Worlds drama was broadcast on the radio in the U-S and Canada on October 30th 1938 is in my view the greatest failure in media literacy of the 20th century. In the vernacular of the 2020s we call this a "fail". The researchers of the time concluded people who thought there really was an alien invasion and the "thousands" who felt some…
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