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.

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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

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