Muira McCammon

Published in MisinfoCon

·Jul 28, 2017

“That Was Just a Coincidence”: What a Children’s Radio Show from the 1980’s Can Teach Us About Stopping the Spread of Misinformation Today

In the 1980’s, Kids America, a Peabody Award-winning syndicated radio show for children, tackled thorny topics of all shapes and sizes, but I am drawn time and time again to the episode that aired on the day the Space Shuttle Challenger shuttle exploded. On that day, January 28, 1986, a…

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“That Was Just a Coincidence”: What a Children’s Radio Show from the 1980’s Can Teach Us About…