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
March 21, 2003
Journalists appeal to the governments of Iraq and the U.S., to be allowed to do their jobs without being targeted…
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March 28, 2003
An early assessment of the coverage of the second war against Saddam and more....
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April 4, 2003
Bridges to Baghdad and more!
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April 11, 2003
Lies of World War Two and more....
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April 18, 2003
The second draft of history, the "patient channel" and more...
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July 11, 2008
Show Summary: FISA becomes law, again; what to do about Google; and a look at the Fox News-New York Times fight.
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May 2, 2003
It's been two months since the department of Homeland Security launched its multi-media campaign to promote readiness among the citizens. Does anyone feel more prepared?
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May 9, 2003
Joe McCarthy was one of the first producers of reality TV, and how a modern reality show about the Danish prime minister has undone his diplomacy throughout Europe.
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May 16, 2003
Plagiarism, and financial collusion-- and that's only some of what's ailing American news papering. Also the FCC gears up to dump some old rules.
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May 23, 2003
An assessment of departing White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer and more ways Washington shapes news coverage. Plus a look at the rescue of Private Lynch, was the story we heard fact or fiction?
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May 30, 2003
Does yelling about deregulation have any impact on the FCC? Also, safeguarding journalism’s ethics: a look at ombudsmen, news councils and do-it-yourself fact-checking.
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June 6, 2003
Wither the weapons of mass destruction, and why U.S. media is just now asking that question. Also, we follow the future of broadcast regulation out of the FCC, into the Courts and in Congress.And of …
July 4, 2008
Show Summary: Tyranny in Zimbabwe, the evangelical avant-garde and border radio
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June 13, 2003
Three million deaths later, Congo makes headlines; we consider Africa and the U.S. press. Also, TV after TIVO: once we all can skip over the ads, how will free media pay for itself? Plus, the weather…
June 27, 2003
Walmart, Painstation and more.
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June 27, 2008
Show summary: Indecency over the air and the man who created the infamous Daisy Girl ad
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July 4, 2003
Corporate anthems and On The Media's own little diddy....
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July 11, 2003
BBC v. Blair, BBC v. Israel and more....
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July 18, 2003
A conversation with the new editor of the New York Times and more.
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July 25, 2003
A look at conspiracy theories in the Arab press, and is the tide turning in the battle over big media regulation?
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