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
August 1, 2003
Can the investor's mind be plumbed to predict terrorist attacks? Did government researchers have it right when they proposed a terrorist futures market? Plus, the failed efforts of Congress to squeez…
August 8, 2003
Race, a new media study, kickers.
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August 15, 2003
A re-run, due to the blackout.
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August 22, 2003
The arab press and the summer of gays.
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September 12, 2003
The pre-internet internet, financial reporting and more!
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September 19, 2003
Amid all the reporting from Iraq, we've rarely seen the face of the enemy. One reporter recently went behind their lines and brought back a portrait.
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September 26, 2003
Candidate Wes Clark just entered the ring and already one expert says he'll be k-o'ed by the media in the first round.
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June 20, 2008
Show Summary: OTM goes to 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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October 3, 2003
Much of the media seemed to greet General Wesley Clark with a red carpet when he entered the presidential race last week....
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October 17, 2003
Dubyaman, clearing Clear Channel's name and more!
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October 10, 2003
The truth about covering Iraq.
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October 24, 2003
The horror of last year's hostage siege at the Moscow Theater will be brought to you this week on cable, we talk with the director about how he got the tape. Also, is TV dying before our eyes?
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October 31, 2003
This week we talk to a reporter who has already gotten off the campaign bus.
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November 7, 2003
We consider sand in the gas tank of media and democracy...
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November 14, 2003
It's war...again. Plus, royal blackout, media titans and pulling back the curtain on NPR.
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November 21, 2003
British media flip-flops on Bush’s visit, Jacko hijacks all coverage at home. Funding movies on both sides of the Rio Grande, and Vietnam War atrocities uncovered 36 years later.
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November 28, 2003
A reporter who was in Rwanda at the time of the genocide, struggles to tell the story of what he saw.
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December 5, 2003
We consider the twin forces behind the liberal radio network, and conservative campus newspapers. Also, how Georgia's free press sent Edvard Shevardnadze packing.
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June 13, 2008
Show Summary: taking the networks out of the presidential debates; a New Jersey paper searches for liberal bias in its newsroom; treating PTSD with a virtual reality program
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December 26, 2003
The year in government secrecy and more!
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