On the Media

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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.

2 DAYS AGO

How Wired Magazine is Scooping the Competition. Plus, Whither the Democrats?

Chaos in the federal government, and the fate of the DOJ.

50 min
5 DAYS AGO

Musk's Meddling in European Politics

Elon Musk is meddling in European politics

17 min
FEB 1

Is That Legal? Plus, DeepSeek and the A.I. Bubble.

The legality of Trump’s executive orders, and overhyping A.I.

50 min
JAN 29

Brooke Talks AI With Ed Zitron

How DeepSeek threatens to burst the American AI bubble.

44 min
JAN 25

Week One of Trump 2.0

A deluge of executive orders; subdued media coverage of Trump 2.0; and a second Gilded Age.

50 min
JAN 22

Wars Are Won By Stories

Brooke spoke to Elyse Graham, author of “Book and Dagger - How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War Two."

27 min
JAN 17

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.

50 min
JAN 15

A Shake Up In The Briefing Room?

Bad relations between the President and the White House Press Corps? It was ever thus.

10 min

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Authoritarianism in Politics and big Tech AI

Feb 2

Ytzpaul

First, the first two weeks of Trump’s implementation of Project 2025… And two the section on impact of DeepSeek AI … very interesting with quality guests.
ED Z.!

Feb 1

Iswoon

Love the show…always have I, since I can recall. It puts our (my) world back on axis weekly, with mid-week nosh, as well. Ed Zitron, recently, a new voice, real energy & intellect. Great Guest, Grazie!
Great show, but …

Jan 26

chicka-doodle-doo

… I can’t listen to the disgusting voice of you-know-who. Can you bleep it out?
Critical reporting

Jan 20

BCguy94

I really appreciate the thorough reporting on the stories they do, especially in an era of declining trust in the media.

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.