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
December 19, 2008
Show Summary: Comprehending all the numbers in the news; The Obama Administration and the media; the essays of George Orwell.
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December 5, 2008
Show Summary: the press in Mumbai, the MySpace suicide and the Birchers turn 50
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November 28, 2008
Show Summary: the ethics of journalistic portrait photography and a major conflict of interest in the public radio world
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November 21, 2008
Show Summary: Journalist Michael Lewis on the unintended consequences of his book Liar's Poker; the future of the Bloomberg News empire; why outlandish studies make their way into scientific journals…
November 14, 2008
Show Summary: Bloomberg News sues the Federal Reserve; Detroit's decline and our collective psyche; The Supreme Court weighs in on Enya in the courtroom
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October 31, 2008
Show Summary: confessions from the back of the campaign bus; the important political stories that never got told; is photographing your ballot illegal?
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October 24, 2008
Show Summary: the curse of the exit poll; the myth of the Bradley effect; do newspaper endorsements actually matter?
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October 17, 2008
Show Summary: the ethics of undercover reporting
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October 3, 2008
Show Summary: the veep debate, online search habits and blogger insurance
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September 26, 2008
Show Summary: the McCain campaign and the media; coverage of the bailout; political speech in church
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September 19, 2008
Financial reporters, old and new, try to get to the truth of the current crisis, while the truth does nothing when it comes to correcting political misinformation and the truth comes out on the Rosen…
September 12, 2008
Show Summary: privacy in the age of Google and "lipstick on a pig"
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September 5, 2008
Show Summary: McCain v Media; poor marks for coverage of No Child Left Behind; teachers on film
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August 29, 2008
Show Summary: Cable news talks about and over the DNC; The first couple of health care ads return to the small screen; What even you don't know about your racial bias
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August 22, 2008
Show Summary: boycotting the political conventions; Olympics coverage we didn't see; a fact checking abomination
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August 8, 2008
Show Summary: the anthrax case, a reporter reports his own wild years and 3D movies
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August 1, 2008
Show Summary: China's failed attempt at openness pre-Olympics, the CIA recruiting journalists, people powered search engines.
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