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
June 26, 2009
Charges of coziness between the news networks and the White House; NPR's policy on the word "torture"; adventures in ambushing potential interviewees
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July 3, 2009
Debunking popular myths about President Obama, Kitty Genovese and the Cuban Missile Crisis
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June 12, 2009
The Globe in crisis, mapping North Korea and Tetris turns 25
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May 29, 2009
A look at Seattle now that it's a one-paper town and the support and attack machines working for and against Sonia Sotomayor. Plus, are bunk credit reports protected by the First Amendment?
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May 22, 2009
Cheney's makeover, the Pentagon's charm offensive and the pitchman's day in the sun.
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May 15, 2009
The significance of images of torture; the search for the next Google; Craigslist now comes with chaperons
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May 8, 2009
Is price-fixing the only way to save the newspaper industry?; the wealthy have a PR problem; the new Kindle and its impact on all things paper and publishing.
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January 6, 2001
The changing of the guard in the White House press corps. Ben Bradlee says the whiners in the briefing room should take a walk. And a day with reporter who walks the "bad luck" beat on the streets of…
January 13, 2001
This week, we look forward to the future of music on the Internet and back to a day in radio September 21st, 1939. Also, the Elvis of cable news: bill O'Reilly.
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January 20, 2001
The ascension of Texas, a look at the word Luddite, and a question: what exactly is IT?
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January 27, 2001
Why don't football and culture mix? That, new FCC rules regarding the blind, and more this week on On the Media.
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February 3, 2001
This week on On the Media: the new face of CNN, China's campaign against Falun Gong, and Oedipus told through vanity plates.
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February 10, 2001
Al Gore takes a whack at teaching at J-School. And OTM talks sex.
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February 17, 2001
The issues faced in covering Israel. Lynn Cheney takes on Eminem. And Brooke visits with some online gamers.
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February 24, 2001
The February sweeps are almost over. Take a look at gays and blacks on television...are the portrayals fair, or merely fashionable?
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March 3, 2001
This week, how DVD's are changing the way we watch movies.
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March 10, 2001
On The Media goes to Anchor School.
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March 24, 2001
The U.S. Senate passed a bill that would give cheap ad rates for pols....
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