120 episodes
On the Media WNYC Studios
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4.6 • 8.3K Ratings
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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.
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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.
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A War Photographer Watches Alex Garland's 'Civil War'
Award-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario on the new film 'Civil War.'
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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.
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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.
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The Rise and Fall of Alt-Weeklies, and Backpage.com vs The Feds
What has American journalism lost with the decline of alt-weeklies?
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How The Village Voice Changed Journalism
An oral history tells the story of this iconic alt-weekly.
Customer Reviews
Npr
I like this show and npr or at least I have in the past Every other story these days is about an extreme minoritynow With all the problems in this world to focus on which bathroom to use (that’s a metaphor for chasing a red herring which is another metaphor meaning you’re easily distracted from what is important) is what npr has become. NPR isn’t hard enough on herr trump.
50 NPR Employees
…Should have signed their name to this letter in defense of the network. One can quibble around the margins of the editorial decisions around mueller, laptop, Schiff etc etc but network leaderships refusal to engage in good faith interrogation of the underlying argument about diversity of opinion is the end for me. I’m a longtime NPR listener and I’m tired of being spoken to by privileged intersectional grad students like I’m a kindergartener.
Among my favorites
For many years I have counted this show among my favorite public radio shows. I was so happy to find that the show was available as a podcast in addition to the live radio. They cover critical issues related to the media.