Critical Frequency

26/10/2020

On the latest episode of Hot Take, Amy Westervelt and Mary Heglar ask TIME’s Justin Worland to break down what an confirmation would mean for climate.

Listen at http://podlink.to/realhottake

06/10/2020

What does it feel like to drive through California in the midst of 600+ wildfires? On a new Green New Deal, Sunrise Movement's Nikayla Jefferson describes driving home from a recent roadtrip, plus the advice (and fire-extinguisher) given to her by her grandma. Listen at podlink.to/generationgnd

22/09/2020

The gives the next generation hope, but the climate crisis gives them nightmares. On a new episode of Generation Green New Deal, meet the brave kids who protested at Senator Dianne Feinstein's office in 2019, and hear why they can't *not* be climate activists.

http://Podlink.to/generationgnd

16/09/2020

Thanks to Pocket Casts for featuring Critical Frequency as a network highlight! We're a women-run, founded by journalists and focused on the backstory of the biggest issues facing society today: climate change and justice. You can listen to all our shows here: https://lists.pocketcasts.com/criticalfrequency

15/09/2020

Today marks the Generation Green New Deal launch! On the premiere, the story of how climate change has gone from back burner to center stage, sparked by the 2018 protest in Nancy Pelosi’s office where Sunrise Movement and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez helped launch the Green New Deal. Listen at http://podlink.to/generationgnd

14/09/2020

Surprise! We just dropped the series premiere of Inherited. Hear about the inciting incident for the movement of a lifetime—the sit-in at Nancy Pelosi’s office in November 2018—through the voices of six different activists on the ground that day. Listen at podlink.to/inherited

13/09/2020

This week's is Critical Frequency. Founded by journalists, the network is working to make sure voices and stories don't get lost, particularly at this critical point in modern history. Check out their podcasts here: https://lists.pocketcasts.com/criticalfrequency

08/09/2020

School is not back after the summer, exposing more need for after school programs that have filled the gap for working families. But those programs face a precarious funding future. On a new Labor ep, Afterschool Alliance's Nikki Yamashiro shares her research: http://podlink.to/labor

03/09/2020

Our founder Amy Westervelt is interviewed in Bill Mckibben's The New Yorker newsletter this week, talking about Season 5 of Drilled! Get a sneak peek of the season, detailing the story of Chevron’s misadventures in Ecuador: https://link.newyorker.com/view/5efcabc0712a226cb41488cdcqp0t.y21/f3398b86

27/08/2020

On a new Sound Off, classical guitar duo Duo Noire talk about the importance of programming women composers, racial representation in their art form & what it’s like to be Black classical guitarists as the U.S. confronts systemic racism. Listen at https://podlink.to/soundoff

25/08/2020

Thanks to a combination of the pandemic shifting the schedule on everything and us being really freakin' ambitious, the new shows are coming fast and furious from now through October. Earlier this month Critical Frequency launched Sound Off with Katy Henriksen and Labor, a collab with Reasonable Volume (Elise Hu-Stiles and Rachel Swaby). Now we can finally tell you about another co-production we've been working on for over a year with Stitcher! Unfinished: Short Creek is a 10-part documentary series on the fundamentalist Mormon community in Short Creek, a community that straddles the state line between Arizona and Utah, operated for decades as a theocracy within the U.S., and is now trying to figure out what democracy looks like and where to draw the line between freedom of religion and freedom from religion. It is a *fascinating* story and I'm so so proud of the work this team pulled off (John DeLore, Sarah Ventre, Ashley Sanders, and Abigail Keel). Check it out! https://www.witnesspodcasts.com/shows/unfinished-short-creek?fbclid=IwAR31035geghNFg-8DUzsI3RFV9FNX57kmDTOu8rRPcnZaHn0hxsoCGCaP54

A divided community in the desert. A prophet with total power. A battle over family, home, and the limits of religious freedom.

19/08/2020

Launched today! Labor: The Social Science on Women, Work, and Motherhood. Get it everywhere you get your pods https://podlink.to/labor

by Critical Frequency and Reasonable Volume

24/03/2020

Looking for some at-home listening? You can binge the entire third season of now. Host Amy Westervelt explores the "Mad Men" of climate denial, the PR machine that led us to an age of disinformation, and the ways Big Oil and to***co have been closely tied all along. Listen at fanlink.to/drilled

20/03/2020

On this season of , host Amy Westervelt has looked at the evolution of propaganda, and how it's deeply intertwined with the fossil fuel industry. On the finale, she talks to New York University's Jay Rosen about the media's role, a key tool for the disinformation era, and what can we do now. fanlink.to/drilled

17/03/2020

The season finale is out now! What can we do about Big Oil's propaganda machine now that it's delivered us into an era of disinformation? New York University's Jay Rosen and former Federal Trade Commission commissioner Nicholas Johnson discuss the Fairness Doctrine, today's "post-fact" world, and where to go from here. Listen at fanklink.to/drilled

16/03/2020

The season finale of drops tomorrow! Make sure to catch up before then: fanlink.to/drilled

12/03/2020

E. Bruce Harrison is considered the father of environmental PR, or by critics, the "godfather of greenwashing." He and his wife Patricia were the intellectual parents of modern climate denial. Now Patricia is in charge of government funding of public media. Hear more on this week's : fanlink.to/drilled

11/03/2020

On a new , we learn that Patricia Harrison, head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, was a PR agent for the coal industry, ran the country’s foremost greenwashing PR firm, and helped birth the phrase “clean coal.” Hear her story at fanlink.to/drilled

10/03/2020

There’s a new in your feeds, and it’s a doozy. E. Bruce and Patricia Harrison ran their own PR firm for over 20 years, pioneering the use of the industry coalition as a front for lobbying and spin, aiming to stop regulation in everything from smoking to carbon emissions. And today? Patricia is the president and CEO for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. Hear more at fanlink.to/drilled

07/03/2020

Looking for some weekend listening? Catch up on ! This week we dug into the story of John Hill, an Ivy Lee devotee and manipulator who represented the American Petroleum Institute and a fake to***co research group at the same time. Listen at fanlink.to/drilled

05/03/2020

Oil isn’t the “new to***co”—it’s the old to***co. On this week's , we hear the surprising info that the same companies, same firms, same people were providing PR services to both oil and to***co simultaneously, with John Hill at the center. fanlink.to/drilled

04/03/2020

Did you know cigarette filters were invented by oil companies? On this week's , hear about John Hill, founder of Hill and Knowlton, and the to***co-oil-plastic triangle. fanlink.to/drilled

04/03/2020

Did you know cigarette filters were invented by oil companies? On this week's , you'll hear about of John Hill, founder of Hill and Knowlton, and how he contributed to the to***co-oil-plastic triangle. Listen at fanlink.to/drilled

03/03/2020

Today on , we meet John Hill, who worked for companies like Standard Oil and brokered a host of partnerships between to***co and oil. And we learn that the same PR guys were working for both oil and to***co, often at the same time. Listen at fanlink.to/drilled

01/03/2020

In case you missed it, this week's tells the stories of 2 people who influenced our Mad Men: Edward Bernays and W. Howard Chase, who took the notion that controlling a company's fate meant controlling the masses to a whole new level. Listen at fanlink.to/drilled

27/02/2020

On this week's , host Amy Westervelt tells the story of Edward Bernays, whose PR strategies manipulated the masses in favor of clients like Standard Oil, the American To***co Company and General Motors. Listen at fanlink.to/drilled

26/02/2020

W. Howard Chase was Bernays' intellectual progeny, responsible for the best-known example of greenwashing: the "crying Indian ad," which introduced the idea of "litter bugs" and individual responsibility for pollution. More on this week's : fanlink.to/drilled

25/02/2020

Sigmund Freud's nephew Edward Bernays coined the term "public relations" when propaganda became a dirty word. On a new , hear how he used psychology to manipulate the masses and orchestrate cultural shifts in favor of clients like Standard Oil. fanlink.to/drilled

18/02/2020

is chasing leads this week, so instead of a new Mad Men tale, we've dropped a great interview from Emily Atkin with The Guardian's interim CEO Anna Bateson about that publication's decision to stop taking ads from fossil fuel companies. Listen at fanlink.to/drilled

05/02/2020

On this week's , meet Herb Schmertz, who taught Big Oil how to aggressively manipulate media and use it as a propaganda tool. And his influence is still felt today, as major news organization make ads for oil companies. More on the episode: fanlink.to/drilled

04/02/2020

Mobil's Herb Schmertz introduced Big Oil to so many propaganda tactics, is telling his story in two parts. In Part 1, out now: Corporate personhood. He humanized oil companies by creating the "corporate persona" then fought for First Amendment rights for corporations. Hear the full episode here: fanlink.to/drilled

03/02/2020

A new episode is coming tomorrow! In the meantime, catch up on the story of Daniel Edelman, who worked in psychological warfare, becoming an expert on propaganda and how to combat it. He created tactics for Big Oil, like a blend of lobbying and media relations, and astroturfing. Listen in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2GRJxK2

02/02/2020

Have you started Season 3 yet? Host Amy Westervelt digs into the "Mad Men of climate denial"— the people who shaped origins of Big Oil PR and propaganda. Make sure to catch up before our new episode drops on Tuesday! fanlink.to/drilled

28/01/2020

Episode 3 is out now! Daniel Edelman learned the tools of his trade combatting N**i propaganda in WWII, then came home to put his psychological warfare training to work for American industry, including to***co and Big Oil. Listen in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/36zoq9U

28/01/2020

Nice boost for the new season of Drilled! fanlink.to/drilled

27/01/2020

Big Oil gave Hi**er propaganda tips decades ago, and their PR machine has only grown since. Season 3 of digs into the history of fossil fuel propaganda and the "Mad Men of climate denial" who shaped it. Listen on your favorite podcast app: http://fanlink.to/drilled

24/01/2020

Big Oil gave Hi**er propaganda tips decades ago, and their PR machine has only grown since. Season 3 of digs into the history of fossil fuel propaganda and the "Mad Men of climate denial" who shaped it. Listen on your favorite podcast app: fanlink.to/drilled

23/01/2020

This season of uncovers the N**i Germany origins of Big Oil's first publicist, and how he helped invent propaganda and fake news. You can hear the first two episodes now on Stitcher: https://stitcher.com/s?eid=66725453

22/01/2020

Out now, the first two episdoes of season 3! Hear about Big Oil's big propaganda machine—its origins, the spin masters who created it, and why it's been so effective. Listen in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2ttUYos