Podcast Explores Whether Scorpions Hit 'Wind of Change' Was Written by the CIA
rollingstone.com
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
> William Paley, the president of CBS broadcasting and a founding father of the CIA
Did this used to be open knowledge and scrubbed now? There isn't a mention of Paley's involvement in cia on his own Wikipedia page... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Paley
The [edit: wikipedia] article mentions that he was "director of radio operations of the Psychological Warfare branch in the Office of War Information at Allied Force Headquarters": that's what became PWD/SHAEF [1] towards the end of the war and was merged after the war with the Strategic Services Unit and some other stuff to make the CIA.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Warfare_Division
David Hasselhoff takes some credit for the Wall coming down, so you never know:
Does he? In the very article you linked:
"It’s fake news. I never ever said I had anything to do with bringing down the wall. I never ever said those words. I was semi-responsible for protesting to keep it up [such as in 2013]." "I was just in the right place at the right time with the right song. I was just a man who sang a song about freedom."
You all know where the term podcast came from right?
It's the last actually open and compatible part of the web that hasn't been split apart and sealed off by corporate interests, so we should fight to keep it that way.
We can discuss the (de)merits of being Spotify only, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a podcast.
Edit: Probably a much better movie analogy would be “Don’t say you’re shooting film if you‘re using a digital camera”.
Including plain old RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/wind-of-change-wide
Give it a few days and someone will build a service doing just that.
Here in 2020 lots and lots of people still have trouble reading.
Not as in being illiterate, but as in "I'd rather watch a 20-minute Youtube video explaining a technical topic that could be explained on half a sheet of A4, because reading is just too exhausting for me".
OECD recognizes 6 levels.
Below Level 1: Adults can read brief texts on familiar topics and locate a single piece of specific information. Only basic vocabulary knowledge is required and the adult is not required to understand the structure of sentences or paragraphs.
Level 1: Adults can read relatively short digital or print texts to locate a single piece of information that is identical to or synonymous with the information given in the question. Knowledge and skill in recognising basic vocabulary, determining the meaning of sentences, and reading short paragraphs of text is expected.
Level 2: Adults can make matches between the text, either digital or printed, and information. Adults can paraphrase or make low-level inferences.
Level 3: Adults are required to read and navigate dense, lengthy or complex texts.
Level 4: Adults can integrate, interpret or synthesise information from complex or lengthy texts. Adults can identify and understand one or more specific, non-central idea(s) in the text in order to interpret or evaluate subtle evidence-claim or persuasive discourse relationships.
Level 5: Adults can search for, and integrate, information across multiple, dense texts; construct syntheses of similar and contrasting ideas or points of view; or evaluate evidence based arguments. Adults understand subtle, rhetorical cues and can make high-level inferences or use specialised background knowledge.