I'm watching the American Experience documentary on Orson Welles' legendary "War Of The Worlds" radio broadcast. It's fashionable these days to laugh about how gullible the American public was to think that an alien invasion was actually occurring...
In this day and age, where the criterion for what is and isn't fake news has yet to be defined (and indeed may never be fully), it's almost comforting to know that this isn't a new thing. It's not an issue that is hitherto unforseen in American discourse. The technology may be different but the cycle is the same: we are testing the parameters and boundaries of new mediums, and there will be casualties, as we've seen already in everything from the recent election to Pizzagate.
Now that I have jumped into the podcast foray, these ideas are fresh in my mind. Although my podcast is more musical and not political in any real sense, the thought of keeping things "authentic" and "real" is not lost on me. There is an element of drama even as I am simply conducting interviews and playing music. It's not a live podcast, so I can edit and arrange the format any way I choose... and how I execute this is highly important to the way I express myself.
So check out my podcast, entitled "Mixtape Preservation Society" and is available on iTunes. The second broadcast is coming later this week.
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