On the Media

Balanced presentation & great content! Thanks so much for all your thoughtful work!

This show is very badly-needed analysis of how current events are reported and by whom and why and to what ends and how it calcifies into the Dominant Narrative over time. This show is basically an anti-calcification agent against propaganda. For those who don’t just consume the information as it’s fed to us, but consider the framing and the competing agendas, OTM is one of the few sources of support for doing so. I love this show so much and particularly Brook Gladstone. I listen to every single episode and could listen to BG’s voice all day.

The episode about public broadcasting being in danger was so biased that it provided a perfect encapsulation of why public broadcasting SHOULD be defunded. Chef’s kiss.

I was an ardent fan and supporter of NPR for over 30 years. At some point during the COVID lockdowns, I just found I couldn’t abide listening anymore. I didn’t think it was because it was too woke, because I considered myself to be a woke progressive leftist. But it was the tone—and the tone policing. The virtue signaling. And the fact that I had serious questions about COVID and the transing of children (as I am from the Question Authority generation) and there was NEVER any attempt to explore divergent views on these issues and others. Anybody who had questions was brainwashed by right wing misinformation, even though I never consume right wing news. I just had common sense questions, many of which have been born out. My point is that I was very dismayed by Brook’s contemptuous tone toward Mike Gonzales. I don’t agree with Gonzales on CPB funding, but as do agree with some of his points, and I do not need Brooke or anyone at NPR to tell me how I should interpret information. And this is why I finally stopped listening to NPR. The insidious contemptuous tone.