Commentary: The Pseudo-Local Broadcast

Studio 360

Next year, Warner Brothers will release two sequels to the hit movie The Matrix. Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen says our real world is starting to echo the virtual world of those movies.In lots of smaller cities, the local deejays and news programs aren’t local at all.

(Originally aired: April 4, 2002)

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