On the Media

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Subscribers: 9176
Reviews: 35
Episodes: 120


 Nov 16, 2024

cugel
 Oct 16, 2024
highly partisan, but the good kind 😬

pmk
 Jul 5, 2024
Provides good insight regarding media coverage and perspective.

Ikke
 Aug 30, 2023
Mostly corporate propaganda. Use it to stay informed of the lib perspective.


 Apr 27, 2023
critical analysis

Description

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.

Episode Date
The Harvard Plan: The Universities Are The Enemy
Dec 20, 2024
How to Plan for Inevitable Disaster
Dec 18, 2024
A Cold-Blooded Killing Ignites a National Conversation. Plus, Part Two of The Harvard Plan.
Dec 13, 2024
Enron is Back, and Birds Aren't Real
Dec 11, 2024
Donald Trump’s Cabinet of Influencers. Plus, The Harvard Plan.
Dec 06, 2024
Kash Patel’s Crusade Against the Media
Dec 04, 2024
How Conservative Talk Radio Came to Dominate the Airwaves
Nov 29, 2024
Hank Green Makes the Truth Go Viral (EXTENDED VERSION)
Nov 27, 2024
How Hank Green Makes the Truth Go Viral. Plus, the Escape Fantasies of the Uber Rich.
Nov 23, 2024
Why Men And Boys Are Struggling
Nov 20, 2024
Fox News is Back at the White House. Plus, No Joke, The Onion Buys Infowars.
Nov 15, 2024
Using Conspiracy Theories to Make Sense of a Loss
Nov 14, 2024
The Manosphere Celebrates a Win. Plus, M. Gessen on How to Survive an Autocracy
Nov 08, 2024
The Day After
Nov 06, 2024
Toxic Election Lies Spread, Jeff Bezos Sows Chaos at The Post and How The Media Created Election Night
Nov 02, 2024
Why Trump is a Fascist (EXTENDED VERSION)
Oct 30, 2024
Fascism, Fear and the Science Behind Horror Films
Oct 25, 2024
Kamala Harris is Trying to Make Climate Action Patriotic
Oct 23, 2024
Can a Billion Dollars Buy an Election?
Oct 19, 2024
‘The Apprentice’: Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Pursuit of Power
Oct 16, 2024
The Presidential Election That Put Fox News On the Map
Oct 11, 2024
A Storm of BS In The Wake Of Hurricane Helene
Oct 09, 2024
A Reporter’s View From Beirut, and a New Film Plumbs the Depths of Netanyahu’s Corruption
Oct 04, 2024
"It Happened Here 2024" A new radio play starring Edie Falco and John Turturro
Oct 02, 2024
Election Lies Are Fueling Voter Suppression. Plus, Newsrooms Brace for Election Night
Sep 27, 2024
OTM Presents Ep. 1 of Slow Burn's The Rise of Fox News: We Report. You Can Suck It.
Sep 25, 2024
The Trump Campaign Continues to Spew Lies about Springfield. Plus, Support for Political Violence Is On the Rise.
Sep 20, 2024
Taylor Swift's Endorsement and the Role of Music in Politics
Sep 18, 2024
Is Kamala Harris’ Press Strategy Depriving Voters — Or Just Journalists? Plus, Understanding Election Polls.
Sep 13, 2024
Not an Internet Error: How 404 Media Aims to Shake Up Online Journalism
Sep 11, 2024
The Media Are Going Easy On Trump and Russia is Going All In On Right-Wing Media
Sep 06, 2024
Brooke and Micah Have Something To Tell You
Sep 04, 2024
How to Read a Presidential Candidate
Aug 30, 2024
How Apple Shaped Podcasting
Aug 28, 2024
Freedom! Joy! Forward! The DNC’s Fave Buzzwords, Explained
Aug 23, 2024
Echoes of 1968 at the DNC in Chicago
Aug 21, 2024
The Rise and Fall of Alt-Weeklies, and Journalism in an AI World
Aug 16, 2024
Dan Taberski on His New Series "Hysterical"
Aug 14, 2024
A Dad-Coded VP Pick. Plus, Trump Courts Gen Z Influencers
Aug 09, 2024
Cat Ladies: EXTENDED VERSION
Aug 07, 2024
Revenge of the Childless Cat Ladies
Aug 02, 2024
The Sound of Sport
Jul 31, 2024
The Democratic Ticket Change Angers the Right. Plus, Ezra Klein’s Role in Biden’s Decision.
Jul 26, 2024
Kamala Harris Replacing Joe Biden on the Ticket Isn’t Antidemocratic
Jul 25, 2024
How the Media Created J.D. Vance. Plus, the Anointing of Donald Trump
Jul 19, 2024
It's Getting Hot in Here
Jul 17, 2024
What the Media Get Wrong About Immigration
Jul 12, 2024
Making Fun of Public Radio
Jul 10, 2024
The Sound of Patriotism
Jul 05, 2024
Clarence Thomas' Unshaken Belief in Big Money
Jul 03, 2024
No, Joe Biden Didn’t Poop His Pants. Plus, the Supreme Court’s Fact-Checking Problem
Jun 28, 2024
Do Sperm Whales Talk to Each Other?
Jun 26, 2024
The Ensh*ttification of Everything
Jun 21, 2024
The Drip, Drip, Drip of Bad News at The Washington Post
Jun 21, 2024
UK Elections: They’re Not Like Ours! Plus, the Messy Family Behind Paramount
Jun 14, 2024
Is Love is Blind a Toxic Workplace?
Jun 12, 2024
A Former Disinformation Reporter is Running The Onion. Plus, Birds ARE Real.
Jun 07, 2024
Mr. Beast Reigns Supreme on YouTube
Jun 05, 2024
Trump Found Guilty; The Right-Wing Media Were Prepared For It
Jun 01, 2024
How Tech Journalists Are Fueling the AI Hype Machine
May 29, 2024
How Tired Tropes Drive AI Coverage. Plus, is the Vibecession Back or Not?
May 24, 2024
Rightwing Media is Obsessed with the Darien Gap
May 22, 2024
What Bush v. Gore Revealed About Contested Elections
May 17, 2024
The Story Behind Biden’s New Tariffs
May 15, 2024
What the Media Get Wrong About Campus Protests
May 10, 2024
Revisiting a Conversation with Paul Auster
May 08, 2024
How to Read a President, with Carlos Lozada, Vinson Cunningham, and Curtis Sittenfeld
May 03, 2024
'The Three Body Problem' And the Rise of Chinese Science Fiction
May 01, 2024
How Not to Cover the Trump Trials. Plus, the Latest Push To Defund NPR
Apr 26, 2024
A War Photographer Watches Alex Garland's 'Civil War'
Apr 24, 2024
Meet the Media Prophets Who Preach Christian Supremacy. Plus, Journalism in ‘Civil War’
Apr 19, 2024
Happy Bicycle Day!
Apr 17, 2024
The Rise and Fall of Alt-Weeklies, and Backpage.com vs The Feds
Apr 12, 2024
How The Village Voice Changed Journalism
Apr 10, 2024
Warring Narratives Around UNRWA. Plus, Media Bets on Sports Gambling
Apr 05, 2024
Happy Birthday to Basketball Great, Walt "Clyde" Frazier
Apr 03, 2024
Boeing Conspiracy Theories Take Flight. Plus, the Politics to TV News Pipeline
Mar 29, 2024
Beyoncé and the History of Black Country Music
Mar 27, 2024
Trump’s Rhetoric Intensifies, and Russia’s Fake Journalists
Mar 22, 2024
Evan Gershkovich Has Been In Prison In Russia For A Year
Mar 20, 2024
Why Banning TikTok Might Backfire. Plus, a History of Book-Banning Moms
Mar 15, 2024
A Journalism History Lesson from Calvin Trillin
Mar 13, 2024
What Can Musk Offer Trump? And Defining “Decolonization” for Gaza
Mar 08, 2024
It's That Time Again!
Mar 06, 2024
Measuring Bias in Israel-Palestine Coverage, and Mehdi Hasan's Approach to Covering the Region
Mar 01, 2024
American Patriots Support... Vladimir Putin?
Feb 28, 2024
Christian Nationalism is Reshaping Fertility Rights, and Books Dominate at the Oscars
Feb 23, 2024
Revisiting the Documentary, "Navalny"
Feb 21, 2024
Breaking News: Biden is Old. Plus, Bobi Wine’s Fight For Democracy
Feb 16, 2024
Tucker Went to Russia and Got a History Lesson
Feb 14, 2024
If You Can’t Beat ’Em… Join ’Em? Journalism in an AI World
Feb 09, 2024
Naomi Klein's Trip to the Mirror World
Feb 07, 2024
What the Media Gets Wrong About Immigration, and Chris Hayes Wants More Trump Coverage!
Feb 02, 2024
Micah Speaks To Kyle Chayka About The Filter World
Jan 31, 2024
DeSantis' Failed Campaign Has Lessons For the Political Press. And A Public Radio Parody.
Jan 26, 2024
OTM presents - Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows
Jan 24, 2024
Trouble at The Baltimore Sun, and the End of an Era for Pitchfork
Jan 19, 2024
What Israelis Are Seeing on TV - EXTENDED VERSION
Jan 16, 2024
Israeli TV News Sanitizes the Bombing of Gaza. Plus, a Plagiarism Fight Gets Political
Jan 12, 2024
Mysteries of the Euroverse!
Jan 10, 2024
How a Whistleblower Changed the Course of History
Jan 05, 2024
The Reporter Who Said No to the FBI
Jan 03, 2024
What a Year
Dec 29, 2023
Where Did 'White Jesus' Come From?
Dec 27, 2023
The Rise of 'News Avoiders,' and a Stand-Up Comedy Scandal
Dec 22, 2023
Who Cares About Literary Prizes?
Dec 20, 2023
Climate Delay-ism and the Real Goals of the Book Banning Movement
Dec 15, 2023
Celebrating Norman Lear
Dec 13, 2023
How Media Fueled a Shoplifting Panic, and an AI-Journalism Experiment Gone Wrong
Dec 08, 2023
Happy One Year Anniversary Since George Santos Became a Thing!
Dec 06, 2023
Word Watch: “Genocide,” and Do We Have to Care About OpenAI?
Dec 01, 2023
Media Coverage of the Trump Movement is Missing Vital Context
Nov 29, 2023
Is the New York Times a Tech Company Now?
Nov 24, 2023
The Hasan Minhaj Saga and Evolving Expectations of Truth in Comedy
Nov 22, 2023
TikTok In the Crosshairs... Again. And Saying Goodbye to Jezebel
Nov 17, 2023
FTC chair Lina Khan is Kicking A** and Taking Names
Nov 15, 2023
Trump Coverage is Still Terrible. Plus, Podcasting’s First Boom and Bust
Nov 10, 2023
Making Television After #MeToo
Nov 08, 2023
Warring Narratives in the Israel-Gaza Conflict and a New #MeToo Movement
Nov 03, 2023
The Evolution of Opinions Online and "Statementese"
Oct 31, 2023