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
July 1, 2005
Two journalistic sinners who took different paths to reportorial redemption.
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July 8, 2005
A wrangle over confidential sources ends with one reporter in jail. Was it worth it? Plus, OTM critiques three major newspapers' takes on the issue of class.
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July 15, 2005
signs of Achill: the Cleveland Plain Dealer decides not to print a story because of the Valerie Plame case.
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July 22, 2005
The language of the Supreme Court and more!
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August 5, 2005
We dust off a 60-year old case of wartime censorship. Also a quick history of American media since the revolution.
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July 29, 2005
Why the Bush administration has given the "war on terror" a new name. Plus, media dispatches from Africa, Haiti and Ukraine.
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August 12, 2005
The FCC wanted advice on broadcast indecency, so it put a Christian crusader on the payroll. Plus, The Daily Show's endless search for chumps
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August 26, 2005
New efforts by Google to take over the world! Plus, famous authors who auction their characters’ names, for charity. And, a fresh take on the old museum audio guide
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March 2, 2007
Show Summary: Looking for the real Louis Farrakhan, and the wounded soldiers hidden in plain view.
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February 23, 2007
Show Summary: Evangelicals in the press, the satellite radio monopoly deal, and the myth of the longest campaign ever.
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February 16, 2007
Show Summary: Debating Israel, reporting hate crimes, and the NYT on Iranian weapons: deja vu all over again?
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February 9, 2007
Show Summary: The Giuliani Beat... remembering the Khmer Rouge... and why helicopters matter.
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February 2, 2007
Show Summary: Muslims in the Media, from Washington to Doha. And spitting on soldiers -- the myth that just won't die.
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January 26, 2007
Show Summary: The media miss the "Surge," and behind the scenes at Al Manar.
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January 19, 2007
Show Summary: Scooter Libby on trial, high-def looks to porn, and what's so funny about Dennis Kucinich?
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January 12, 2007
Show Summary: Apple's genius at turning marketing into news, social networking to beat the censors, and the state of the cable news hate-fest.
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September 23, 2005
The future of television networks (here's a hint, the programs are more valuable than the pipes.) And, the future ON television: a new series puts the star of "Earth Girls Are Easy" in the Oval Offic…
September 30, 2005
The New Orleans Times Picayune launches its own portraits of grief. The problem? Finding the people who remember the dead. Also, an Al-Jazeera reporter is convicted of collaborating with al-Qaeda.
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October 28, 2005
The vast lawless frontier of cyberspace needs governing, but whose job is it? We'll look at who rules the internet now, and who used to.
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October 21, 2005
Serious self-analysis at the New York Times, and Katrina leaves an odd alliance of broadcasters in its wake.
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