On the Media Podcast

On the Media

WNYC Studios
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.
Farewell TikTok? Plus, the Role of Memory and Forgetting with the L.A. Wildfires
The Supreme Court upholds the TikTok ban; and the precedent for L.A. wildfires.
Jan 17
50 min
A Shake Up In The Briefing Room?
Bad relations between the President and the White House Press Corps? It was ever thus.
Jan 15
10 min
Public Broadcasting Is In Danger (Again)
The history of public broadcasting and its adversaries; and the modern place of public radio in covering community and crises.
Jan 10
49 min
How Trump Re-Wrote the History of January 6
Four years later, the new meaning of January 6.
Jan 8
26 min
America’s Empire State of Mind
A history of American imperialism.
Jan 3
50 min
Do Sex Scandals Matter Anymore in Politics?
Jan 1
43 min
How AI and Algorithms Are Transforming Music
The state of music criticism; and the AI generator that could put composers out of a job.
Dec 27, 2024
50 min
A New Film Unearths the Depths of Netanyahu's Corruption
Featuring never-before-seen interrogation footage.
Dec 25, 2024
16 min
The Harvard Plan: The Universities Are The Enemy
Trump’s big plan to remake American universities puts academia on high alert.
Dec 20, 2024
50 min
How to Plan for Inevitable Disaster
New Orleans faces up to the climate crisis.
Dec 18, 2024
18 min
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