What Next - One Year 1942: The Info Wars of World War II
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🗓️ 27 December 2022
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Summary
As we catch our breath over the holidays, enjoy this episode of Slate's One Year podcast. What Next returns next week.
In March 1942, a new nightly radio show hit the American airwaves. The stated goal of Station Debunk was to correct all the lies getting tossed around about America’s involvement in the war. But the real story was a whole lot stranger and more devious than it appeared.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what next listener? |
| 0:03.1 | I've got something special for you today while we catch our breath over the holidays. |
| 0:06.8 | It comes from one of my favorite slate podcasts, One Year. |
| 0:10.1 | Their latest season goes all the way back to 1942, and in the spring of that year, a |
| 0:14.8 | new nightly radio show hit the American airwaves. |
| 0:18.4 | The stated goal of Station Debunk was to correct all the disinformation about America's involvement |
| 0:24.0 | in the war, but the real story was a whole lot stranger and more devious than it seems. |
| 0:29.9 | We'll be back with new episodes of what next week. |
| 0:33.3 | In the meantime, enjoy this episode of One Year and subscribe to that podcast wherever |
| 0:37.2 | you listen. |
| 0:38.2 | Okay, here's Josh Levine with the episode The Info Wars of World War II. |
| 0:45.3 | Before we begin, a quick note. |
| 0:47.4 | This episode contains World War II error recordings of offensive language. |
| 0:54.3 | In his first Fire Side chat after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt |
| 0:59.6 | didn't try to put a positive spin on things. |
| 1:02.6 | So far, the news has been all bad. |
| 1:07.3 | The casualty lists of these first few days will undoubtedly be large. |
| 1:12.9 | The president vowed that he would always tell the truth about the war, regardless of how |
| 1:17.6 | troubling the reports turned out to be. |
| 1:20.8 | But he said that his fellow citizens would need to stick to the facts too. |
| 1:25.2 | Most earnestly I urge my countrymen to reject all rumors. |
| 1:31.5 | These ugly little hints of complete disaster fly thick and fast in wartime. |
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