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.

4 DAYS AGO

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.

50 min
8 JAN

How Trump Re-Wrote the History of January 6

Four years later, the new meaning of January 6.

27 min
3 JAN

America’s Empire State of Mind

A history of American imperialism.

51 min
1 JAN

Do Sex Scandals Matter Anymore in Politics?

The case of Gary Hart.

44 min
27/12/2024

How AI and Algorithms Are Transforming Music

The state of music criticism; and the AI generator that could put composers out of a job.

51 min
25/12/2024

A New Film Unearths the Depths of Netanyahu's Corruption

Featuring never-before-seen interrogation footage.

17 min
20/12/2024

The Harvard Plan: The Universities Are The Enemy

Trump’s big plan to remake American universities puts academia on high alert.

50 min
18/12/2024

How to Plan for Inevitable Disaster

New Orleans faces up to the climate crisis.

18 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.