Synopsis
The smartest, wittiest, most incisive media analysis show in the universe. The weekly one-hour podcast of NPRs On the Media is your guide to how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield examine threats to free speech and government transparency, criticize media coverage of the weeks big stories, examine new technology, and unravel hidden political narratives in the media. In an age of information overload, OTM helps you dig your way out. The Peabody Award winning show is produced by WNYC Radio.
Episodes
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February 16, 2007
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minShow Summary: Debating Israel, reporting hate crimes, and the NYT on Iranian weapons: deja vu all over again? On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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February 9, 2007
05/05/2011 Duration: 51minShow Summary: The Giuliani Beat... remembering the Khmer Rouge... and why helicopters matter. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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February 2, 2007
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minShow Summary: Muslims in the Media, from Washington to Doha. And spitting on soldiers -- the myth that just won't die. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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January 26, 2007
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minShow Summary: The media miss the "Surge," and behind the scenes at Al Manar. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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January 19, 2007
05/05/2011 Duration: 50minShow Summary: Scooter Libby on trial, high-def looks to porn, and what's so funny about Dennis Kucinich? On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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January 12, 2007
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minShow Summary: Apple's genius at turning marketing into news, social networking to beat the censors, and the state of the cable news hate-fest. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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September 23, 2005
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minThe future of television networks (here's a hint, the programs are more valuable than the pipes.) And, the future ON television: a new series puts the star of "Earth Girls Are Easy" in the Oval Office so we can all sit back and get used having a woman in the White House. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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September 30, 2005
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minThe New Orleans Times Picayune launches its own portraits of grief. The problem? Finding the people who remember the dead. Also, an Al-Jazeera reporter is convicted of collaborating with al-Qaeda. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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October 28, 2005
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minThe vast lawless frontier of cyberspace needs governing, but whose job is it? We'll look at who rules the internet now, and who used to. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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October 21, 2005
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minSerious self-analysis at the New York Times, and Katrina leaves an odd alliance of broadcasters in its wake. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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October 14, 2005
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minA conversational presidential video conference with soldiers that needed a rehearsal and more... On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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October 7, 2005
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minA federal judge recently ordered the Defense Department to release a second batch of photos from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison The wave of exodus: journalists from Iraq, Howard Stern from terrrestrial radio, and much more. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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November 25, 2005
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minAlmost three years into the war in Iraq and the debate over whether to go into that war is raging in the media. Why now? And, putting a new head on Beer. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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November 18, 2005
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minThe earthquake in Pakistan vanished from the headlines after barely a week. If thousands more die because no one is paying attention, are the media to blame? Also, malfeasance at the CPB. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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November 11, 2005
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minFormer New York Times reporter Judith Miller talks about Scooter Libby, weapons of mass destruction, and her former colleagues at the Times. Plus, the other leak On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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November 4, 2005
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minOn the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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January 5, 2007
05/05/2011 Duration: 52minShow summary: Watching Saddam's execution here and in the Arab world, and the Future of the Internet. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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December 29, 2006
05/05/2011 Duration: 51minThis week on On the Media, an examination of the NPR listener, and, a radioplay send-up public radio itself. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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December 22, 2006
05/05/2011 Duration: 53minShow Summary: Unpacking "troop surge" and the N-word. Also, how the civil rights movement was covered, and a fond look at Christmas specials of yore. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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December 15, 2006
05/05/2011 Duration: 53minShow summary: Atheists in the press, Pinochet's propaganda and Luddite spies. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.