120 episodes

The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Host Brooke Gladstone examines 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.

On the Media WNYC Studios

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    • 4.7 • 419 Ratings

The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Host Brooke Gladstone examines 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.

    How Not to Cover the Trump Trials. Plus, the Latest Push To Defund NPR

    How Not to Cover the Trump Trials. Plus, the Latest Push To Defund NPR

    Why the law won't fix the Trump's lawlessness; and a former NPR editor's essay puts a spotlight on the public radio network.

    • 50 min
    A War Photographer Watches Alex Garland's 'Civil War'

    A War Photographer Watches Alex Garland's 'Civil War'

    Award-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario on the new film 'Civil War.'

    • 23 min
    Meet the Media Prophets Who Preach Christian Supremacy. Plus, Journalism in ‘Civil War’

    Meet the Media Prophets Who Preach Christian Supremacy. Plus, Journalism in ‘Civil War’

    How Christian nationalism is reshaping politics, and a movie centering journalism tops the box office.

    • 50 min
    Happy Bicycle Day!

    Happy Bicycle Day!

    We have never-before-heard tapes from Ken Kesey, the man who taught the hippies how to be hippies and inspired the psychedelic 60's.

    • 21 min
    The Rise and Fall of Alt-Weeklies, and Backpage.com vs The Feds

    The Rise and Fall of Alt-Weeklies, and Backpage.com vs The Feds

    What has American journalism lost with the decline of alt-weeklies?

    • 51 min
    How The Village Voice Changed Journalism

    How The Village Voice Changed Journalism

    An oral history tells the story of this iconic alt-weekly. 

    • 44 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
419 Ratings

419 Ratings

Dallas Awad ,

But the new rules are not

Just got home from a walk long

heeleemee ,

Brooke!

I love Brooke. Her voice of curiosity and experience and willingness to look at things without, or at least acknowledging, prejudice is like a refreshing breeze to me.

But.
I cannot believe she isn’t talking about the media and the reporting relating to the “conflict” in Palestine and the history behind it and the MEDIA response. This is totally Brooke territory in my opinion! I’m flummoxed.
I stopped following but check in with OTM just in case Brooke has done some amazing, as usual, look at the media’s coverage of Gaza and Israel and protests and silencing voices and on and on. But Brooke has been silent.

I’m giving OTM one star for this.

Don1547 ,

Excellent news literacy podcast

Great examinations of the internet and all its dark goings on.

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