Propaganda in Hindsight: What Stuff's "Quarantine Nation" Podcast Really Tells Us
Part 1 of a series, looking at "Quarantine Nation", Stuff's new podcast series. (Stuff is one of New Zealand's mainstream media outlets)
Stuff’s Quarantine Nation podcast sells itself as sober reflection on the Covid years. Read through the lens of Edward Bernays, it looks more like a second wave of propaganda: regret without reversal, fear and heroism without accountability, and a tightly controlled story about what we’re allowed to question.
