https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/rewind-infamous-news-stories--7337199
Episodes are produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review. A Talking Labs production.]]>enNews© Talking Labshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d8dda4a87268ea2995bc49668ad6a9cf.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/rewind-infamous-news-stories--7337199Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:03:34 +0000Talking LabsTalking Labsfeeds@spreaker.comInfamous news events, hoaxes, and media frenzies revisited — one per day, with the benefit of hindsight. Walt narrates. Episodes are produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review. A Talking Labs production.
Episodes are produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review. A Talking Labs production.]]>false584acd7a-9462-58ef-93bf-c68549ea31edepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dewey-defeats-truman-the-headline-that-lost--75106902
This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75106902Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:36:30 +0000Talking LabsThe Chicago Daily Tribune called the 1948 presidential election while voters were still casting ballots. This episode traces the polls, the whistle-stop campaign, the printers' strike, the early edition, and Harry Truman's perfectly timed photograph...
This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.]]>3481948 election,dewey defeats truman,harry truman,history,hoaxes,journalism,media history,misinformation,news retrospective,thomas deweyfalse4fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hitler-diaries-1983--75097100
This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75097100Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:08:27 +0000Talking LabsIn April 1983 the German magazine Stern published sixty volumes of what it said were Adolf Hitler's private diaries, bought for 9.3 million Deutsche Marks and authenticated by a distinguished British historian who retracted within days. Konrad Kujau...
This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.]]>2521983,forgery,gerd heidemann,history,hitler diaries,hoaxes,journalism,journalism scandal,konrad kujau,media history,media hoax,misinformation,news retrospective,stern magazinefalse3fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/balloon-boy-2009--75081688
This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75081688Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:15:38 +0000Talking LabsOn 15 October 2009 a homemade silver saucer drifted across Colorado on live television while the country believed a six-year-old was folded inside it. Helicopters went up, the National Guard was called, flights out of Denver were held — and when it...
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This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75079572Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:56:30 +0000Talking LabsOrson Welles's Martian invasion broadcast supposedly sent America into mass panic on Halloween eve 1938. The ratings say almost nobody was listening — most of the country was tuned to a variety show on a rival network. The panic arrived the next...
This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.]]>230halloween broadcast,history,hoaxes,journalism,media history,media myth,mercury theatre,misinformation,moral panic,news retrospective,orson welles,radio history,war of the worlds 1938falsefull