On [The Divided Dial]: Fishing in the Night | Radiolab Podcast

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From the Radiolab podcast: A utopian experiment in international connection becomes a hardened tool for information warfare and propaganda. Have you heard On the Media’s Peabody-winning series The Divided Dial? It’s awesome and you should, and now you will. In this episode they tell the story of shortwave radio: the way-less-listened to but way-farther-reaching cousin of AM and FM radio. The medium was once heralded as a utopian, international, and instantaneous mass communication tool—a sort...