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

Donald Trump is Rewriting the Past. Plus, the Christian Groups Vying for Political Power

Watching history get rewritten in real time.

50 min
4 DAYS AGO

The J6 Commutations Have Ripple Effects

Micah revisits his conversation with Tasha Adams, ex-wife of the Oath Keepers founder, now released from prison.

51 min
8 FEB

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 FEB

Musk's Meddling in European Politics

Elon Musk is meddling in European politics

17 min
1 FEB

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

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

50 min
29 JAN

Brooke Talks AI With Ed Zitron

How DeepSeek threatens to burst the American AI bubble.

44 min
25 JAN

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
22 JAN

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

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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.