Self-Mythologizing on the Radio: A Brief History of Audio Patriotism
Culture Index
Score Breakdown
Relevance
3/25
Freshness
25/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
6/15
Depth
3/15
5-Axis Cultural Radar
It feels fitting, in the country’s semiquincentennial, to reflect on the ways in which we have mythologized ourselves over the past 250 years. As you might imagine, the Golden Age of Radio, in which the medium was in lock-step with

