On the Media
By WNYC Studios
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Subscribers: 9280
Reviews: 36
Episodes: 120
2bepainted
Feb 13, 2025
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
Apr 25, 2023
Dec 31, 2022
Podcast Republic User
Jun 3, 2022
Nov 28, 2021
Peter
May 16, 2021
Great analysis of news stories and how the media covers them.
Alan
Mar 19, 2021
it's great
Oct 25, 2020
A must-listen for all critical thinkers.
Richard
Sep 28, 2020
Joel
Aug 31, 2020
Some episodes are alright but at times they're way too bias. The BBC podcast The Media Show is more impartial.
Jul 23, 2020
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Erika
May 12, 2020
Clarity when the news is overwhelming. They show the big picture, the details that daily reporting is missing, and long term story that often goes untold.
Max Quinn
Apr 22, 2020
The best way to step back and think about how we talk about what we're talking about it.
tim
Apr 16, 2020
Apr 16, 2020
Erin
Apr 14, 2020
great podcast---been listening for years and it never disappoints
Description
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Harvard and the Battle Over Higher Ed
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Sports Media’s Big Gamble on the Betting Industry
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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The Latest Spin on 'Signalgate.' Plus, a Crypto President is Born.
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Trouble At the EPA
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Voice of America Goes Quiet. And, Apocalypse Now?
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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"Tough Love For Liberals"
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Mahmoud Khalil and a New Red Scare. Plus, Press Freedom Under Threat.
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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The Baltimore Sun Is In Trouble
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Trump’s On-and-Off-Again Tariffs, and Decoding ‘Make America Healthy Again’
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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How Does Kash Patel Compare to J. Edgar Hoover?
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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The New 'State Media.' Plus, Podcasters Are Running the FBI.
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Writing (and Rewriting) Russian History
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Learning Elon Musk’s Media Playbook. Plus, Silicon Valley’s Rightwing Roots.
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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How Kash Patel Came to Loathe the Media and Love Trump
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Donald Trump is Rewriting the Past. Plus, the Christian Groups Vying for Political Power
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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The J6 Commutations Have Ripple Effects
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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How Wired Magazine is Scooping the Competition. Plus, Whither the Democrats?
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Musk's Meddling in European Politics
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Is That Legal? Plus, DeepSeek and the A.I. Bubble.
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Brooke Talks AI With Ed Zitron
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Week One of Trump 2.0
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Wars Are Won By Stories
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Farewell TikTok? Plus, the Role of Memory and Forgetting with the L.A. Wildfires.
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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A Shake Up In The Briefing Room?
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Public Broadcasting Is In Danger (Again)
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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How Trump Re-Wrote the History of January 6
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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America’s Empire State of Mind
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Do Sex Scandals Matter Anymore in Politics?
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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How AI and Algorithms Are Transforming Music
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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A New Film Unearths the Depths of Netanyahu's Corruption
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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The Harvard Plan: The Universities Are The Enemy
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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How to Plan for Inevitable Disaster
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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A Cold-Blooded Killing Ignites a National Conversation. Plus, Part Two of The Harvard Plan.
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Enron is Back, and Birds Aren't Real
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Donald Trump’s Cabinet of Influencers. Plus, The Harvard Plan.
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Kash Patel’s Crusade Against the Media
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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How Conservative Talk Radio Came to Dominate the Airwaves
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Hank Green Makes the Truth Go Viral (EXTENDED VERSION)
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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How Hank Green Makes the Truth Go Viral. Plus, the Escape Fantasies of the Uber Rich.
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Why Men And Boys Are Struggling
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Fox News is Back at the White House. Plus, No Joke, The Onion Buys Infowars.
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Using Conspiracy Theories to Make Sense of a Loss
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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The Manosphere Celebrates a Win. Plus, M. Gessen on How to Survive an Autocracy
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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The Day After
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Toxic Election Lies Spread, Jeff Bezos Sows Chaos at The Post and How The Media Created Election Night
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Why Trump is a Fascist (EXTENDED VERSION)
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Fascism, Fear and the Science Behind Horror Films
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Kamala Harris is Trying to Make Climate Action Patriotic
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Can a Billion Dollars Buy an Election?
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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‘The Apprentice’: Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Pursuit of Power
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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The Presidential Election That Put Fox News On the Map
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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A Storm of BS In The Wake Of Hurricane Helene
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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A Reporter’s View From Beirut, and a New Film Plumbs the Depths of Netanyahu’s Corruption
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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"It Happened Here 2024" A new radio play starring Edie Falco and John Turturro
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Election Lies Are Fueling Voter Suppression. Plus, Newsrooms Brace for Election Night
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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OTM Presents Ep. 1 of Slow Burn's The Rise of Fox News: We Report. You Can Suck It.
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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The Trump Campaign Continues to Spew Lies about Springfield. Plus, Support for Political Violence Is On the Rise.
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Taylor Swift's Endorsement and the Role of Music in Politics
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Is Kamala Harris’ Press Strategy Depriving Voters — Or Just Journalists? Plus, Understanding Election Polls.
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Not an Internet Error: How 404 Media Aims to Shake Up Online Journalism
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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The Media Are Going Easy On Trump and Russia is Going All In On Right-Wing Media
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Brooke and Micah Have Something To Tell You
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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How to Read a Presidential Candidate
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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How Apple Shaped Podcasting
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Freedom! Joy! Forward! The DNC’s Fave Buzzwords, Explained
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Echoes of 1968 at the DNC in Chicago
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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The Rise and Fall of Alt-Weeklies, and Journalism in an AI World
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Dan Taberski on His New Series "Hysterical"
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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A Dad-Coded VP Pick. Plus, Trump Courts Gen Z Influencers
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Cat Ladies: EXTENDED VERSION
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Revenge of the Childless Cat Ladies
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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The Sound of Sport
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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The Democratic Ticket Change Angers the Right. Plus, Ezra Klein’s Role in Biden’s Decision.
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Kamala Harris Replacing Joe Biden on the Ticket Isn’t Antidemocratic
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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How the Media Created J.D. Vance. Plus, the Anointing of Donald Trump
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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It's Getting Hot in Here
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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What the Media Get Wrong About Immigration
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Making Fun of Public Radio
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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The Sound of Patriotism
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Clarence Thomas' Unshaken Belief in Big Money
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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No, Joe Biden Didn’t Poop His Pants. Plus, the Supreme Court’s Fact-Checking Problem
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Do Sperm Whales Talk to Each Other?
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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The Ensh*ttification of Everything
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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The Drip, Drip, Drip of Bad News at The Washington Post
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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UK Elections: They’re Not Like Ours! Plus, the Messy Family Behind Paramount
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Is Love is Blind a Toxic Workplace?
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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A Former Disinformation Reporter is Running The Onion. Plus, Birds ARE Real.
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Mr. Beast Reigns Supreme on YouTube
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Trump Found Guilty; The Right-Wing Media Were Prepared For It
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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How Tech Journalists Are Fueling the AI Hype Machine
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May 29, 2024 |
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How Tired Tropes Drive AI Coverage. Plus, is the Vibecession Back or Not?
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May 24, 2024 |
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Rightwing Media is Obsessed with the Darien Gap
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May 22, 2024 |
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What Bush v. Gore Revealed About Contested Elections
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May 17, 2024 |
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The Story Behind Biden’s New Tariffs
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May 15, 2024 |
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What the Media Get Wrong About Campus Protests
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May 10, 2024 |
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Revisiting a Conversation with Paul Auster
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May 08, 2024 |
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How to Read a President, with Carlos Lozada, Vinson Cunningham, and Curtis Sittenfeld
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May 03, 2024 |
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'The Three Body Problem' And the Rise of Chinese Science Fiction
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May 01, 2024 |
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How Not to Cover the Trump Trials. Plus, the Latest Push To Defund NPR
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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A War Photographer Watches Alex Garland's 'Civil War'
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Meet the Media Prophets Who Preach Christian Supremacy. Plus, Journalism in ‘Civil War’
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Happy Bicycle Day!
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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The Rise and Fall of Alt-Weeklies, and Backpage.com vs The Feds
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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How The Village Voice Changed Journalism
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Warring Narratives Around UNRWA. Plus, Media Bets on Sports Gambling
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Happy Birthday to Basketball Great, Walt "Clyde" Frazier
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Boeing Conspiracy Theories Take Flight. Plus, the Politics to TV News Pipeline
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Beyoncé and the History of Black Country Music
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Trump’s Rhetoric Intensifies, and Russia’s Fake Journalists
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Evan Gershkovich Has Been In Prison In Russia For A Year
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Why Banning TikTok Might Backfire. Plus, a History of Book-Banning Moms
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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A Journalism History Lesson from Calvin Trillin
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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What Can Musk Offer Trump? And Defining “Decolonization” for Gaza
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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It's That Time Again!
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Measuring Bias in Israel-Palestine Coverage, and Mehdi Hasan's Approach to Covering the Region
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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American Patriots Support... Vladimir Putin?
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Christian Nationalism is Reshaping Fertility Rights, and Books Dominate at the Oscars
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Revisiting the Documentary, "Navalny"
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Breaking News: Biden is Old. Plus, Bobi Wine’s Fight For Democracy
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Tucker Went to Russia and Got a History Lesson
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Feb 14, 2024 |