On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 1806
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
Secure Connections
This week, after years of debate, the FCC voted to treat the internet like a public utility. On the Media examines what the decision means for the data flowing through our devices. Also, as the situa…
Safe Words
Why the language of terrorism is so divisive. Also, how Fifty Shades of Grey introduced America to the kink community.
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Whistleblowers, the Legacy of Lynching, and Vintage Jon Stewart
An exploration of the term “whistleblower”, from its origins as a sports reference to its current status as a moral mantle. Plus, reframing the legacy Jim Crow-era lynchings. And a farewell to venera…
On the Anti-Vax Non-troversy
In the wake of a US measles outbreak, the media, politicians, and even celebrities have quarantined the country in a vortex of paranoia and fear. The combination of false science and government distr…
Threat Assessment
The content of a new ISIS video shocks the world. Also, vaccinating children stokes faux controversy, again, and a new documentary has the Church of Scientology on the offensive.
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The Case for Boredom
Meet our friends from down the hall. The podcast New Tech City about technology and human behavior has kicked off a fascinating project that anyone can join in on. And, we want you to know about it.
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Naming the Shooter, the Law of the Internet, and More
Whether to name the perpetrators of mass shootings, the myth of defensive gun ownership, and the "Ebola Doctor" Craig Spencer.
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Japanese Captives, the diary of a Guantanamo Bay inmate, and more
A video threat from ISIS to Japan, debunking conventional wisdom in Congress, and a newly published memoir from a Guantanamo Bay inmate.
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Terror Reporting and Technological Paranoia
On the narratives we expect after a terrorist event, double standards for free speech in France, and the eerie technology of Black Mirror's not-so-distant future.
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The Attack on Charlie Hebdo, Reckoning with Free Speech, and More
After the massacre at the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, a look at the symbolic weight of French satire and true freedom of speech.
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True Crime
A special hour on the enthralling genre of true crime.
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Deadbeats
OTM looks at the great decline in beat reporting.
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Hacks, Cats, & Colbert
The ethics of publicly exposing private emails, the demise of Cat Fancy magazine, and a farewell to the Colbert Report.
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OTM goes to Liberia
A special hour from Liberia, where Ebola figures into every issue, in ways both painful and profound. Brooke and OTM producer Meara Sharma shadow reporters at FrontPage Africa, the country's finest p…
Cameras, Conservatives, Con Men, and More
Where Is Liberia?
Here's FrontPage Africa reporter Mae Azango commenting on Liberia's low profile in the United States.
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Breaking Bad in Spanish, the "Hispanic Walter Cronkite", and More
On Ferguson
A special edition of On the Media examining the media's reaction to the grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.
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Hijacked Narratives, Coates on Cosby, George Takei and More
How media narratives have irreversible effects, a prominent journalist describes his editorial regret regarding the Bill Cosby rape allegations, and a conversation with George Takei.
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