On 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.

  • How Hank Green Makes the Truth Go Viral. Plus, the Escape Fantasies of the Uber Rich.

  • Why Men And Boys Are Struggling

  • Fox News is Back at the White House. Plus, No Joke, The Onion Buys Infowars.

  • Using Conspiracy Theories to Make Sense of a Loss

  • The Manosphere Celebrates a Win. Plus, M. Gessen on How to Survive an Autocracy

  • The Day After

  • Toxic Election Lies Spread, Jeff Bezos Sows Chaos at The Post and How The Media Created Election Night

  • Why Trump is a Fascist (EXTENDED VERSION)

  • Fascism, Fear and the Science Behind Horror Films

  • Kamala Harris is Trying to Make Climate Action Patriotic

  • Can a Billion Dollars Buy an Election?

  • ‘The Apprentice’: Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Pursuit of Power

  • The Presidential Election That Put Fox News On the Map

  • A Storm of BS In The Wake Of Hurricane Helene

  • A Reporter’s View From Beirut, and a New Film Plumbs the Depths of Netanyahu’s Corruption

  • "It Happened Here 2024" A new radio play starring Edie Falco and John Turturro

  • Election Lies Are Fueling Voter Suppression. Plus, Newsrooms Brace for Election Night

  • OTM Presents Ep. 1 of Slow Burn's The Rise of Fox News: We Report. You Can Suck It.

  • The Trump Campaign Continues to Spew Lies about Springfield. Plus, Support for Political Violence Is On the Rise.

  • Taylor Swift's Endorsement and the Role of Music in Politics

  • Is Kamala Harris’ Press Strategy Depriving Voters — Or Just Journalists? Plus, Understanding Election Polls.

  • Not an Internet Error: How 404 Media Aims to Shake Up Online Journalism

  • The Media Are Going Easy On Trump and Russia is Going All In On Right-Wing Media

  • Brooke and Micah Have Something To Tell You

  • How to Read a Presidential Candidate

  • How Apple Shaped Podcasting

  • Freedom! Joy! Forward! The DNC’s Fave Buzzwords, Explained

  • Echoes of 1968 at the DNC in Chicago

  • The Rise and Fall of Alt-Weeklies, and Journalism in an AI World

  • Dan Taberski on His New Series "Hysterical"

  • A Dad-Coded VP Pick. Plus, Trump Courts Gen Z Influencers

  • Cat Ladies: EXTENDED VERSION

  • Revenge of the Childless Cat Ladies

  • The Sound of Sport

  • The Democratic Ticket Change Angers the Right. Plus, Ezra Klein’s Role in Biden’s Decision.

  • Kamala Harris Replacing Joe Biden on the Ticket Isn’t Antidemocratic

  • How the Media Created J.D. Vance. Plus, the Anointing of Donald Trump

  • It's Getting Hot in Here

  • What the Media Get Wrong About Immigration

  • Making Fun of Public Radio

  • The Sound of Patriotism

  • Clarence Thomas' Unshaken Belief in Big Money

  • No, Joe Biden Didn’t Poop His Pants. Plus, the Supreme Court’s Fact-Checking Problem

  • Do Sperm Whales Talk to Each Other?

  • The Ensh*ttification of Everything

  • The Drip, Drip, Drip of Bad News at The Washington Post

  • UK Elections: They’re Not Like Ours! Plus, the Messy Family Behind Paramount

  • Is Love is Blind a Toxic Workplace?

  • A Former Disinformation Reporter is Running The Onion. Plus, Birds ARE Real.

  • Mr. Beast Reigns Supreme on YouTube

  • Trump Found Guilty; The Right-Wing Media Were Prepared For It

  • How Tech Journalists Are Fueling the AI Hype Machine

  • How Tired Tropes Drive AI Coverage. Plus, is the Vibecession Back or Not?

  • Rightwing Media is Obsessed with the Darien Gap

  • What Bush v. Gore Revealed About Contested Elections

  • The Story Behind Biden’s New Tariffs

  • What the Media Get Wrong About Campus Protests

  • Revisiting a Conversation with Paul Auster

  • How to Read a President, with Carlos Lozada, Vinson Cunningham, and Curtis Sittenfeld

  • 'The Three Body Problem' And the Rise of Chinese Science Fiction

  • How Not to Cover the Trump Trials. Plus, the Latest Push To Defund NPR

  • A War Photographer Watches Alex Garland's 'Civil War'

  • Meet the Media Prophets Who Preach Christian Supremacy. Plus, Journalism in ‘Civil War’

  • Happy Bicycle Day!

  • The Rise and Fall of Alt-Weeklies, and Backpage.com vs The Feds

  • How The Village Voice Changed Journalism

  • Warring Narratives Around UNRWA. Plus, Media Bets on Sports Gambling

  • Happy Birthday to Basketball Great, Walt "Clyde" Frazier

  • Boeing Conspiracy Theories Take Flight. Plus, the Politics to TV News Pipeline

  • Beyoncé and the History of Black Country Music

  • Trump’s Rhetoric Intensifies, and Russia’s Fake Journalists

  • Evan Gershkovich Has Been In Prison In Russia For A Year

  • Why Banning TikTok Might Backfire. Plus, a History of Book-Banning Moms

  • A Journalism History Lesson from Calvin Trillin

  • What Can Musk Offer Trump? And Defining “Decolonization” for Gaza

  • It's That Time Again!

  • Measuring Bias in Israel-Palestine Coverage, and Mehdi Hasan's Approach to Covering the Region

  • American Patriots Support... Vladimir Putin?

  • Christian Nationalism is Reshaping Fertility Rights, and Books Dominate at the Oscars

  • Revisiting the Documentary, "Navalny"

  • Breaking News: Biden is Old. Plus, Bobi Wine’s Fight For Democracy

  • Tucker Went to Russia and Got a History Lesson

  • If You Can’t Beat ’Em… Join ’Em? Journalism in an AI World

  • Naomi Klein's Trip to the Mirror World

  • What the Media Gets Wrong About Immigration, and Chris Hayes Wants More Trump Coverage!

  • Micah Speaks To Kyle Chayka About The Filter World

  • DeSantis' Failed Campaign Has Lessons For the Political Press. And A Public Radio Parody.

  • OTM presents - Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows

  • Trouble at The Baltimore Sun, and the End of an Era for Pitchfork

  • What Israelis Are Seeing on TV - EXTENDED VERSION

  • Israeli TV News Sanitizes the Bombing of Gaza. Plus, a Plagiarism Fight Gets Political

  • Mysteries of the Euroverse!

  • How a Whistleblower Changed the Course of History

  • The Reporter Who Said No to the FBI

  • What a Year

  • Where Did 'White Jesus' Come From?

  • The Rise of 'News Avoiders,' and a Stand-Up Comedy Scandal

  • Who Cares About Literary Prizes?

  • Climate Delay-ism and the Real Goals of the Book Banning Movement

  • Celebrating Norman Lear

  • How Media Fueled a Shoplifting Panic, and an AI-Journalism Experiment Gone Wrong

  • Happy One Year Anniversary Since George Santos Became a Thing!

  • Word Watch: “Genocide,” and Do We Have to Care About OpenAI?

  • Media Coverage of the Trump Movement is Missing Vital Context

  • Is the New York Times a Tech Company Now?

  • The Hasan Minhaj Saga and Evolving Expectations of Truth in Comedy

  • TikTok In the Crosshairs... Again. And Saying Goodbye to Jezebel

  • FTC chair Lina Khan is Kicking A** and Taking Names

  • Trump Coverage is Still Terrible. Plus, Podcasting’s First Boom and Bust

  • Making Television After #MeToo

  • Warring Narratives in the Israel-Gaza Conflict and a New #MeToo Movement

  • The Evolution of Opinions Online and "Statementese"

  • Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Israel/Gaza Edition

  • How Right Wing Media Created The House Speaker Fiasco

  • The Fog of War, and the Deadly Toll of Reporting from Gaza and Israel

  • What Comparisons to 9/11 Tell Us about the Israel-Hamas Conflict

  • We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 3

  • How Elon Musk's X Failed During the Israel-Hamas Conflict

  • We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 2

  • Why You Should Pay Attention to Trump's Civil Fraud Case

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