The Father Coughlin story is interesting because of parallels to the modern era. Wildly popular charismatic figure (30M listeners at peak when US had ~120M ppl). Private broadcasters tried to fact-check, pre-clear speeches, ban him while fans protested the censorship. FDR tried to stay out of it.
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Wrote a book about this as it was happening!
- political influencers are the new propagandists
- influencers + algorithms + online crowds shape public opinion
- the right is a hell of a lot better at it than the left
For more evolving online trends, a substack: [agentsofinfluence.substack.com](
Ask Joe Rogan how he feels now about having had bullshit artist Mike Benz aka Frame Game on to just spout “something something CIA” fantasies for hours.
Who’s paying Frame Game? Same people as are paying John Solomon, and War Room. [www.motherjones.com/politics/202...](
8th grade algebra is good: “But detracking didn’t work. Some people like to muddy the waters on this, so I’m going to be exhaustive: The share of Black and Hispanic students scoring “proficient” in math didn’t budge. The racial gap in…AP classes didn’t budge.“
[www.theargumentmag.com/p/education-...](
Counterpoint: this bullshit policy was touted as something that should be rolled out nationwide, as a fking paragon of progressive policy. It showed up in “detracking” decks in districts across the country.
While parents in SF literally filed FOIAs bc the district lied ab impact. No retcons tks.
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