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
October 12, 2007
Show Summary: Brian De Palma on Redacted; the federal shield law moves through the Senate; celeb profiles contaminate journalism
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October 5, 2007
Show Summary: Radiohead to fans: pay what you will; reporting the Supreme Court; plus Thank You, Dan Rather
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September 28, 2007
Show Summary: News organizations try to cover global stories with very little access, the United Nations as off Broadway theater, and nuclear power gets an image makeover.
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September 21, 2007
Show Summary: Cambodian youth turn a blind eye to the past, a con man fakes it as a journalist and a con woman gives her audience just what they want to hear
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September 14, 2007
Show Summary: The image war over the War in Iraq, the British withdrawal from Basra Palace and pop-cultural allusions to Gitmo
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September 7, 2007
Show Summary: Oprah enters politics, porn loses its mojo as a tech innovator & the Russians are hacking!
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Dec 3, 2004
Ukraine contends with people power amplified by a suddenly mutinous media...
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December 10, 2004
Reporters are sentenced for withholding the names of their sources, and the Governor of Maryland is sued for ordering his staff not to speak to some reporters....
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August 31, 2007
Show Summary: A senator and a food critic are outed, a messenger is murdered, and an attorney general may or may not have bent the truth.
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Dec 17, 2004
A case study in character assassination by newspaper. Also, an Israeli reality show that sends teams of amateur diplomats to compete abroad.
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Dec 24, 2004
An exit interview with White House reporter Dana Milbank. Plus, when Washington reporters quote that mysterious yet omnipresent, 'senior administration official,' who do they really mean?
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Dec. 31, 2004
Arun has left the building and more!
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August 24, 2007
Show Summary: Mortgage panic hits page one, the sanctimony over sanctuary cities, and a newspaper calls for a corporate boycott
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January 7, 2005
A tidal wave of media coverage and the attack of the podcasting people.
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January 14, 2005
The Democrats form a year-round war room to counter the Republican’s message machine plus much more!
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January 21, 2005
A look back on media behavior in the President’s first term, the rise and fall of the mainstream media, and what makes Bob Novak so "special?"
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February 4, 2005
How the State of the Union played across the water, why Al Jazeera is looking for a new home, and the myriad meanings of the term 'mainstream media.'
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January 28, 2005
A review of the controversial reign of FCC Chief Michael Powell… Also, the semantics of Social Security. Plus, reporters who tell government secrets.
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February 11, 2005
The ballistics of radio, the space race and more.
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February 18, 2005
Blog mobs, ethics and more.
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