WNYC StudiosHistory, News, Politics
WNYC StudiosHistory, News, Politics
WNYC StudiosHistory, News, Politics
WNYC StudiosHistory, News, Politics

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On the Media is a weekly show that uses the media as a lens to understand our world. On the Media listeners say the show is an essential companion, helping them survive the firehose of media coming at them 24/7. Hosted by Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger, the show does not do ‘hot takes’, instead offering listeners context, historical parallels, media analysis and often a much appreciated deep exhale. On the Media hosts have an eye on the nuances and details regularly missed by other outlets which helps listeners understand where they should be paying attention (and what they can afford to ignore). Our media diets have untruths woven in, and inconvenient truths left out. These are the bits explored every week at On the Media.

  • Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier
    The story of a crime in a small, southern town…that became a spark for the budding civil rights movement.
  • The Social Media Addiction Trials Begin
    Meta and Google go on trial for ‘addicting’ kids. Plus, betting infiltrates cable TV.
  • An Internet Blackout Hides A Regime's Excesses
    During an internet blackout, thousands of protestors are killed in Iran by armed government forces.
  • How the Justice Department Failed Epstein’s Victims
    A failure of justice and champions of Puerto Rican culture.
  • "Armed Only With A Camera"
    Oscar-nominated documentary pays tribute to the work of the first American journalist killed by Russians while covering the war in Ukraine.
  • Videos of ICE Violence Are Plentiful. Accountability.… Not So Much.
    Plus, what the Boston Massacre can teach us about Minneapolis.
  • Stars and Stripes in Peril
    Stars and Stripes gets an uninvited makeover courtesy of the DOD
  • Trump's Plan to Tank America
    Plus, how ICE watches and recruits us.
  • Trump's War On the Fed [EXTENDED VERSION]
    MORE MARK BLYTH!
  • Trump's War on the Fed, Explained. Plus, How One School Teacher Stood Up to Putin.
    What’s happening at the Fed, and a new documentary from Russia.
  • Who is Russell Vought?
    Donald Trump's "Darth Vader"
  • A Deadly ICE Shooting in Minnesota. Plus, Trump Plays King in Venezuela.
    Debunking Minnesota claims; why Trump keeps threatening global takeovers.
  • The Forgotten History of the First Sitcom
    Who is Gertrude Berg?
  • How Debate Took Over the Internet. Plus, a Case for Confronting the Past.
    Our hosts’ favorite segments of 2025
  • The Rapid Rise of Bari Weiss
    How Bari Weiss got here.
  • Is it Over Yet? 2025 in Review
    Onward and upward
  • A Hundred Years of The New Yorker
    How the Netflix documentary got made.
  • Deep Fakes, Data Centers, and AI Slop — Are We Cooked?
    AI–everything everywhere all at once
  • Big Tech Embraced Fakeness in 2025
    AI slop anyone?
  • Trump Guns for the FTC. Plus, Are We the Losers in the Paramount v Netflix Battle?
    The Supreme Court debates presidential power; Hollywood in existential crisis.