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
- 1804
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
February 29, 2008
Show Summary: The media's love affair with Obama; the irresistible urge to call elections before they're over; the Smurfs turn 50!
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February 22, 2008
Show Summary: The New York Times v McCain; Barack Obama's war of words; cartoonists and comedians struggle with satirizing Obama
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February 15, 2008
Show Summary: Congress stages a walk out; a post writer's strike deal is struck; and the Transportation Security Administration sets up a blog.
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February 8, 2008
Show Summary: First Amendment: fact or fiction; hackers mark their turf; and an e-mail blunder ends up on the front page of the New York Times.
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February 1, 2008
Show Summary: how earmarks became pork; the politics of high fashion; and betting on the election
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January 25, 2008
Show Summary: the narrative of the returned soldier; the new FBI Most Wanted; and Bobby Fischer remembered
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January 18, 2008
Show Summary: Dennis Kucinich on being shut out of the MSNBC debate; 'Filipino monkey' makes mischief?; and the UK's fascination with the U.S. primaries
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January 11, 2008
Show Summary: reporting recession, the death of the Daily Worker and a year of murders
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January 4, 2008
Show Summary: Iowa's aftermath, Bhutto's martyrdom and writers (still) on strike
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December 28, 2007
Show Summary: Presidential candidates and their autobiographies, a gossip columnist turns Iraq war correspondent, plus some of our favorite books of 2007.
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December 21, 2007
Show Summary: Keeping the presidential candidates and the networks honest, plus the grim routine of covering capital punishment in Texas.
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December 14, 2007
Show Summary: Brooke goes to New Hampshire, pre-primary; soldiers blog; and sneaky advertising.
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December 7, 2007
Show Summary: Using psychology 101 on President Bush; putting the press back in a White House press conference plus we revisit OTM's trip to Russia.
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November 30, 2007
Why local stories about presidential candidates don’t make it into the national press, how to address the junior senator from New York, and the word of the year!
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November 23, 2007
Show Summary: The forces tugging at the book industry, an ATM-like machine for literature, and the rise of E-paper.
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November 16, 2007
Show Summary: the surge; the conservative email forward; and border radio
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November 9, 2007
Show Summary: Defining waterboarding, naming droughts and OTM's novel challenge.
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November 2, 2007
Show Summary: Karen Hughs resigns; the myth of Che Guevarra; and the obsession with polls.
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October 26, 2007
Show Summary: California burning; news as art at the New York York Times Building; and a new documentary tackles LARPing
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October 19, 2007
Show Summary: Iraqi Kurds' PR campaign, the fate of municipal wi-fi and Mitt Romney's makeover
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