Is your favorite pop star spreading propaganda?
It's Been a Minute
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4.6 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Brittany Luse is joined by music and Black feminism scholar Daphne A. Brooks and mass communication historian Nick Cull, to unpack what is and isn't propaganda, and how we can sift through political messaging to be more savvy consumers of media.
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| 0:26.5 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. |
| 0:43.8 | Thank you. culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. This week, we're connecting the dots between the American flag, the Catholic Church, |
| 0:48.4 | and Beyonce. I know, I know. How are all of these things connected? Well, we're going to find |
| 0:53.5 | out with music and black feminism scholar, Dr. Daphne A. Brooks, |
| 0:56.8 | and mass communication historian Dr. Nicholas Kull. |
| 0:59.6 | Daphne, Nick, welcome to it's been a minute. |
| 1:01.5 | Great to be here. |
| 1:02.3 | Thanks for having us, Brittany. |
| 1:03.5 | Okay, so I got a real quick question for you. |
| 1:05.3 | Have you ever watched something on TV and thought, okay, now this is propaganda. |
| 1:13.6 | Have you ever had that moment? Whenever I see Lean Greenwood singing, proud to be an American. Well, I not only notice when things are propaganda, |
| 1:19.8 | but I also quite enjoy it because I can see that it's meant to connect to me and I enjoy that |
| 1:26.6 | feeling. You mean I enjoy that feeling. |
| 1:28.3 | You mean you enjoy the feeling of being reached out to? |
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