Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:35 — 10.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreGranfalloon, Bloomington’s annual arts and culture festival celebrating the works of author Kurt Vonnegut, returned this year with a focus on the novel “Cat’s Cradle.” WFHB correspondent Harley Babbitt spoke with local artists and organizers participating in the festival, in order to learn more about how the …
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Interchange – Sounding Angola: Radio’s Electrifying Effects
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:14 — 42.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show focuses on the history of radio in Angola – as an instrument for Portuguese settlers, the colonial state, African nationalists, and the postcolonial state to project power and challenge empire. Marissa Moorman calls these distinct and sometimes overlapping interests Powerful Frequencies, the title of her …
Read More »Anthony Wier Discusses the Dangers of Strategic Nuclear Weapons
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:31 — 20.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreCongress is considering a recommendation by the Trump administration that would allow for the deployment of ‘strategic’ nuclear weapons. Secretary of Defense James Mattis argued the smaller warheads could be deployed on submarine-launched ballistic missiles, allowing for the U.S. to deploy a ‘proportional response’ to the use …
Read More »Standing Room Only – Propaganda and Journalism
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:00 — 123.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreElena Volochine is the Moscow Bureau Chief for France24. A reporter and documentarian, Volochine spoke at the Indiana University Media School on Tuesday, November 27th, 2018. Volochine spoke about propaganda and journalism in Russia. Volochine begins her presentation with an interview from a supposed Ukrainian sailor about …
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