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.
The Harvard Plan: The Universities Are The Enemy
How to Plan for Inevitable Disaster
A Cold-Blooded Killing Ignites a National Conversation. Plus, Part Two of The Harvard Plan.
Enron is Back, and Birds Aren't Real
Donald Trump’s Cabinet of Influencers. Plus, The Harvard Plan.
Kash Patel’s Crusade Against the Media
How Conservative Talk Radio Came to Dominate the Airwaves
Hank Green Makes the Truth Go Viral (EXTENDED VERSION)
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
