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
October 25, 2002
The difficulties of reporting from Iraq, and a way to watch T.V. shows you'll never see- if you're willing to go to the theater.
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November 1, 2002
A reporter is accused of fabricating sources, and the Army goes into the video game industry.
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November 8, 2002
Elections, Independent films, and celebrities (or the lack thereof) from across the pond.
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November 15, 2002
Books for the troops, England's new Harry Potter tours...how do you visit places that don't exist?
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April 10, 2009
The Obama Administration's invokes the state secrets privilege for the third time; an imprisoned Iranian-American reporter is charged with spying; the AP says no more free content.
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April 3, 2009
Show Summary: creationists win a battle over textbooks in Texas; how is the internet affecting our brains?; an argument in favor of yellow journalism.
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March 27, 2009
The Obama Administration hard-sells its economic policy and a journalist blogs the stimulus bill. Plus the war on "War on.." and the coming digitization of all the world's books.
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March 20, 2009
The AIG outrage-off, thousands of doctors are organizing to keep patients from writing online reviews and reputation protection on the web.
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March 13, 2009
Two political media memes, one from the right and one from the left; a newspaper that's actually thriving; and do security threats online mean we need a whole new internet?
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March 6, 2009
The future of conservatism (as told by conservatives), NPR's new boss, two finical reporters get two different stories from their sources, and an enduring American archetype: The Confidence Man.
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February 27, 2009
The Pentagon reverses an 18 year old ban on photographing the war dead, new developments in a case that could decide the future legality of leaks, and the anniversary of one of the first major food s…
February 20, 2009
Analog TV starts its slow fadeout and Comcast is as strong as ever. Also, can the newspaper industry come up with a new online business? If not, does it matter if newspapers die?
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February 13, 2009
The Obama Administration's not so new position on the State Secrets Privilege; criticism of NBC's new To Catch a Predator style reality show; how reporters misunderstand religion
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February 6, 2009
Show Summary: It's official - the NSA was eavesdropping on journalists; plus ads that watch you back.
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January 30, 2009
Show Summary: President Obama's first one-on-one interview with a reporter; plus, OTM's Mark Phillips says "Moshi Moshi"
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January 23, 2009
The challenges of updating White House technology; Child pornography laws used against children who create porn; how watching Al Jazeera changed one American's ideas about war
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January 16, 2009
Media milestones of the Bush era; hyper local newspapers made up of blog posts; everything changes at Guantanamo except for the PR
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January 9, 2009
Covering the Israeli offensive in Gaza; a paradigm shift in how we use the internet; 150 years of The New York Times
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January 2, 2009
Show Summary: A rebroadcast of OTM in China: Pre-Olympic preparations to sell China to the world; the art of Chinese journalism; and a talk with the young urban elite.
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