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.

  • How Anthropic Became Holier Than Thou
    Plus, a literary AI scandal heralds a new era of publishing and journalism.
  • I.C.E.'s "Wartime Recruitment" Campaign
    Hiring at the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency.
  • Trump Sued Himself … and ‘Settled’ for a $1.8 Billion Fund
    Plus, how a deadly prison fire in 1930 changed the course of history for CBS News.
  • A Russian Phrasebook for Surviving Authoritarianism
    From apparatchik to samizdat, Russians have lots of words for describing life under an oppressive government.
  • Episode 4 of American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA
    FEMA’s uncertain future. Plus, what happens when the next disaster strikes?
  • Trump's Refugee Program Is Reserved for Whites Only
    10,000 new spots for Afrikaners
  • Episode 3 of American Emergency; The Movement To Kill FEMA
    Oh, and there's a basic statistical error in the majority's opinion.
  • How "Economic Blindness" Is Obscuring Our Financial Reality
    Plus, how human psychology might play a role.
  • Episode 2 of American Emergency; The Movement To Kill FEMA
    Is the stock market ignoring an oil crisis? And FEMA in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
  • Trump's Glitzy Library Grift
    A shrine to a president, hold the records.
  • American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA
    How did the agency tasked with saving Americans become despised, distrusted, and defunded?
  • How a Prison Fire Helped Create CBS News
    The forgotten history of CBS's first breaking news radio report, delivered by a charismatic inmate
  • Grab Your Tin Foil Hat for The Onion's Takeover of Infowars
    Trump faces a new accusation; The Onion is taking over InfoWars; and the 30th anniversary of Democracy Now!
  • Predicting the News
    Prediction markets are in the headlines again
  • Influencers Usher In A New Era For #MeToo
    Plus, Hungary's new Prime Minister vows to dismantle Orban's "factory of lies"
  • Planet Money Wrote a Book And Then Dissected The Business of Publishing!
    NPR's Planet Money wrote a book and made a series about the process.
  • Trump’s “Madman Theory” Is on Full Display in Iran
    Plus, shortwave radio in the 21st century.
  • A New Day for the Press in Hungary?
    What might follow this weekend's national election.
  • Pete Hegseth is Praying for a Holy War
    Plus, Peter Thiel’s theory of the antichrist.
  • The Danger of Keeping Score
    And why games, like Twister and Dungeons and Dragons, can point us in the right direction...