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
- 1805
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
November 20, 2009
The media's coverage of the President's trip to China; a blow to investigative journalism in China; a play about a Seattle newsroom.
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November 13, 2009
The dismal state of health and medical reporting on morning news shows; why the internet is not a doctor; Venezuela bans violent video games
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November 6, 2009
The ethical dilemma of reporting from Waziristan; say hello to pay walls; the real story of a famous Berlin Wall moment
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October 30, 2009
A judge demands to see the grades of journalism students working to free prisoners; A local TV news director explains why she had to air footage of a savage murder and what happens to the unfinished …
October 23, 2009
Special: The Future of the Music Industry
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October 16, 2009
The media's renewed focus on the war in Afghanistan; The White House's war of words with Fox News; researchers using video games to study human nature
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October 9, 2009
Vaccine scares and the media; an NHL team hires its own reporter; people are being too nice on the net
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October 2, 2009
Proposed changes to The Patriot Act; Italy's not-so-free press; J.J. Abrams on how "The Twilight Zone" has influenced his work.
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September 25, 2009
A bailout for newspapers?; documentary ethics; "ruin" porn
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September 18, 2009
The evolution of the ACORN story; a call to action for government whistle blowers; America's first internet addiction recovery program
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September 11, 2009
Reading (or not reading) the health care bill; controversy over a picture of a soldier in his dying moments; Hollywood and 9/11
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August 28, 2009
Stars and Stripes charges the military with punishing reporters for negative stories; how to cover the debate over the efficacy of torture; the ethics of undercover reporting
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August 21, 2009
Fact-checking health care ads; Iraq's media crackdown; find a reporter, win $5000.
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August 7, 2009
The YouTube-ization of health care hecklers; the military and the media; the psychology of reporters who die for their stories.
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August 14, 2009
The future of the internet: from cyber security to online bullying to what the internet is doing to our brains.
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July 31, 2009
Conspiracy theories: how they spread and how to stop them, tracking if and how the government is spending the stimulus, the many myths of Walter Cronkite.
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July 24, 2009
The language of health care, Amazon's Kindle buyback, and Al Franken's funny again
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July 17, 2009
Show Summary: Sotomayor hearings, online ads and Food, Inc.
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July 10, 2009
Show Summary: MJ mania, Wiki collusion and Khrushchev's wild ride around America
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