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 14, 2002
Brooke is away, and that means that it's sports city this week on On the Media.
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June 21, 2002
Four reporters fined for talking to a jury after a case was closed, and a look at the history of advertising Cracker Jack. That's this week on On the Media.
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June 28, 2002
How the Arab press is reacting to President Bush's ideas for change in Middle East policy, and the kerfuffle being caused by a "hip" depiction of the Thai king.
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July 5, 2002
Newspapers take sides on capital punishment, PSAs reminding Americans to love freedom, and Bob Garfield trying to be the next big hit in country music.
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July 12, 2002
An Israeli government run T.V. station-in Arabic, a history of war corespondents, and a look at the media diet of a teenager in the Bronx. That's this week on On the Media.
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July 19, 2002
A leaky administration, China's very own Harry Potter, and how to REALLY make a movie pitch.
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July 26, 2002
This week at On the Media: A look into the media's role in covering corporate scandals, the term "So-Called 20th Hijacker", and the latest in T.V. programming- for cats.
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August 2, 2002
The Bush Administration rethinks it's image abroad, and The Thing receives a message from his mother.
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August 9, 2002
What the month of August can bring out in journalists, and a report on a revealing television show airing in Hungary.
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August 16, 2002
Does the FBI ever intentionally tip off the press to help a case? Plus a look at the new kid on the block in television ratings.
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August 23, 2002
Why is CNN broadcasting Al Qaeda videos? Also, how investigative journalism can close tax loopholes.
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August 30, 2002
Trucker music meets club music, and meeting a man who novelizes movies.
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September 6, 2002
A discussion about news coverage of 9/11 with the families of some of those who died in the attacks, and selling brand U.S.A.
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September 13, 2002
A consideration of coverage of 9/11, both on the day of and one year later. Also, a look back at the history of USA Today.
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April 17, 2009
Fox News' tea party coverage; Moldova's Twitter revolution; do-it-yourself video games
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September 20, 2002
How 9/11 is changing television, and Glenn Gould on live versus recorded music.
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September 27, 2002
A history of the jukebox, and a deeper look at the word "Homeland".
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October 4, 2002
A new paper- specially for the executive branch- and Gandhi as salesperson.
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October 11, 2002
How journalists gear up for war, remembering coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and an introduction to the largest movie screen...of 1952.
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October 18, 2002
The role of the Pakistani press in growing anti-U.S. sentiment in that nation, and the question of what is to become of TiVo.
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