! History Lee - part 3

This episode considers the implications of the rise of state-sponsored fake news and disinformation for international images.  Simon takes the line that the exaggerations of nation branding are on a continuum with all-out lies of malicious propaganda. He calls for better research on public responses to nations using distortion.  Does it demonstrably damage reputations? Nick argues that state sponsorship of objective news can be an important component of Soft Power as the BBC is an asset for the UK.  He considers the history of this and the ways in our own time by which states are learning to blunt the kind of disruptive media onslaught of the kind deployed by Russia in 2014.  He cites the British response to the Skripal case of 2018 and the effective use of so-called 'pre-bunking' strategies in the run up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.  Simon worries that the loss of confidence in news undermines the whole notion of things being knowable and plays into Russian hands which prompts Nick to stress the importance not merely of single state sponsored sources of objective news like the BBC but of building free media broadly to create multiple sources of credible news at a community level.  The conversation ends with agreement that education is the answer and the perhaps our age of disinformation is a necessary wakeup call for a better future.

Episode 40: Nations and Truth: International Reputation in an Age of Disinformation

Tracks to practice at home - with voices to sing with.

Junie B Jones Rehearsal CD

Let's Play Ball (Part 2)

Welcome to season 1 of the Redeeming History Podcast with Ben Emery!
Redeeming History is a podcast committed to teaching history from a biblical, reformed perspective. That means we recognize God as the sovereign author of history and therefore important to the story he is telling.

Season 1, End of the Age, tells the history of the destruction of the temple and the city of Jerusalem at the hands of the Roman empire in 70 AD.

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Redeeming History Podcast - Season 1 End of the Age: Episode 3 - Josephus' Problem

You wouldn't steal a car.
You wouldn't steal a handbag.
Piracy, it's a crime.

Took this sample and flipped into a little track, enjoy for all your comedy/dj hybrid sets :P
The irony here is that Melchior Reitveldt, the musician who wrote the original piece never got paid for it being in the worldwide anti-piracy ad.

Brock's Best Line Ever

David Dalton