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
Depictions of Torture in "Zero Dark Thirty," John McAfee's Media Manipulations, and More
01:00:47 |
Fri 14 Dec 2012
Publishing: Adapt or Die
On the Media's annual look at the publishing industry, including fears of Amazon becoming a monopoly and the little publishing house standing up to it.
00:50:29 |
Mon 19 Nov 2012
The Facebook Show
An Austrian man who got Facebook to give him everything they had on him, a writer whose rapist friended her on Facebook, the value of a "Like."
00:50:29 |
Fri 26 Oct 2012
The Taliban's Media Problem, Ending Newspaper Political Endorsements, and More
00:50:29 |
Fri 19 Oct 2012
Russia's Broadening Definition of Treason, Manipulating Science Journalists, and More
00:50:55 |
Fri 28 Sep 2012
Just The Facts, Please
This week's show is dedicated to the search for truth. Or, in journalism terms, fact-checking.
00:50:56 |
Fri 21 Sep 2012
Does NPR Have a Liberal Bias?
Brooke talks to NPR listeners, pollsters, media watchers, and This American Life's Ira Glass in search of an answer to the question: does NPR have a liberal bias?
00:50:30 |
Thu 06 Sep 2012
Fact-Checkers in the Spotlight, Why Nigerian Prince Scams Work, And More.
00:50:30 |
Fri 31 Aug 2012
No More Tailoring Political Messages, Communicating the Libyan Revolution, and More
00:50:30 |
Fri 24 Aug 2012
Ayn Rand's Political Influence, Presidential Political Ad Season, and More
00:50:30 |
Fri 17 Aug 2012
NBC's Olympics Woes, Posthumous Outing, and More
Criticism for how NBC is broadcasting the Olympics, the difference between venture capital and private equity, and revealing a public person's sexual orientation after death
00:50:29 |
Fri 03 Aug 2012
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