On the Media
WNYC Studios
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.
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May 5, 2011 • 51min
May 11, 2007
Show Summary
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May 5, 2011 • 51min
May 4, 2007
Show Summary: The Iraqi government's silence on civilian dead, new threats to military bloggers, and the mixed messages of Bollywood.
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May 5, 2011 • 50min
April 27, 2007
Show Summary: Parsing the deaths of Boris Yeltsin, David Halberstam, and Pat Tillman. And, the long history of racist caricatures in American advertising.
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May 5, 2011 • 50min
April 20, 2007
Show Summary: The debate over the Virginia Tech shooter video, ad-free Sao Paolo, and the uses and abuses of LSD.
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May 5, 2011 • 50min
April 13, 2007
Show Summary: Mormons in the media, a farewell to Kurt Vonnegut, and why Don Imus lasted as long as he did.
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May 5, 2011 • 50min
April 6, 2007
Show Summary: The press responds to hostages in Tehran and Palestine, evangelical media then and now, and Mark Twain has Walt Whitman's back.
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May 5, 2011 • 53min
April 29, 2005
Blogging from the front lines and more...
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May 5, 2011 • 53min
May 6, 2005
Making what bleeds, lead and much more
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May 5, 2011 • 53min
May 13, 2005
Last year, it was revealed that a number of prominent newspapers were exaggerating their circulation numbers to boost advertising revenue.
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May 5, 2011 • 53min
May 20, 2005
Globalization. Can individual nations control the information flow in a wired world? Or, should a global community govern the net?
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