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
May 19, 2006
Global warming as comedy, fair use is fair, more on phone tracking.
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May 26, 2006
2008 presidential candidates and the media who love them, a look back at Hustler magazine and must-watch-television … for infants.
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June 2, 2006
Chaos in the TV business, early American propagandists, a supreme blow to whistleblowers
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June 9, 2006
Al-Zarqawi as memento mori, and why baseball writers aren’t juiced about steroids.
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June 16, 2006
How the world covers the World Cup, every month is awareness month, 19,000 new sources for journalists
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June 23, 2006
Cut and Run wins the language debate, freedom in the Saudi Press, the poetry of Michael Gerson
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June 30, 2006
President Bush’s speech outlining the administration’s shift in Middle East policy drew big headlines across the world this week.
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July 7, 2006
The Freedom of Information Act turns 40 and Mexican media grapple with a contested election.
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July 14, 2006
Mid East press round-up, TV sparks change in Pakistan, The ribald father of civil liberties.
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July 21, 2006
Covering the Middle East, from NY to Jakarta. Stem cell mixed messages. Tabloid wars.
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July 28, 2006
The psychology of the partisan news consumer, blackmailer journalists, and how to interview a celebrity.
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August 4, 2006
Perilous times for a wartime president, porn, baseball announcers, the atomic bomb and bombshells.
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August 11, 2006
What the Connecticut primary means about Internet organizing, and conspiracy theorizing from Mexico City to Ground Zero.
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August 18, 2006
Writing the first draft of the Lebanon war, and getting the story out of – and into – Cuba.
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August 25, 2006
The loneliest Iranian correspondent, the child porn beat, poor marks for economic columnists.
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September 1, 2006
Lonelygirl15 and her fans, Armitage enters the Plame investigation, NPR listeners profiled.
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September 8, 2006
9/11 then and now, the convergence of content producers and content users, and Star Trek turns 40.
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September 15, 2006
The politics of Bush’s non-political 9/11 speech, the outing of lonelygirl and Shalom TV
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September 22, 2006
Daniel Ellsberg on leaking, Michael Pollan on spinach, and Mark Warner on virtual campaigning.
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September 29, 2006
Civil war in Iraq? Plus, Tokyo Rose.
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