On the Media
By Brooke Gladstone & Bob Garfield
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Podcast Description
The smartest, wittiest, most incisive media analysis show in the universe. The weekly one-hour podcast of 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 week’s big stories, explore 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 and distributed by NPR.
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Linsanity, Why Adele makes us cry, and more | The media's fascination with Jeremy Lin, challenging the status quo on Russian television, and the science behind the songs that make us cry. | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Graphic videos from Syria, covering the political horse race, and more | To Tweet or not to Tweet graphic videos out of Syria, the seduction of covering the political horse race, and virtual pacifism in video games. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Facebook Show | An Austrian man who got Facebook to give him everything they had on him, a writer whose r****t friended her on Facebook, the value of a "Like." Max Richter - Berlin by Overnight Max Richter - Cascade NW by W | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Supreme Court Justices at the State of the Union Address, Internet as Human Right, and more | The strange tradition of Supreme Court Justices attending Presidential State of the Union Addresses, the future of warantless GPS tracking, and exploring the question of internet as a human right. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Online Piracy, Superpacs and More | The amazing story of the Megaupload take down, Italy's National Order of Journalists, and a man searches in vain for data produced by his own heart. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Telegraph Hackers, Naked Statues, and More | A look back at a hacker from 1903, a story about Mitt Romney's dog that won't go away, and Supreme Court Justices looking at naked statues. | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Disclosing Political Ad Buys, Gambling Online and More | The benefit and burden of disclosing political ad buys online, new rules for internet gambling and using laugh tracks on TV. | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Last Year's Errors, Next Year's Predictions and More | Major media errors of 2011, predictions for the media in 2012 and comment sections online. | 12/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Egyptian Military Brutality, misleading political polls and more | The Egyptian military's brutal turn on protesters, the usefulness of private versus public political polls and the process of developing apps for mobile devices. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Texting While Driving, Space Madness and More | A proposed ban on texting while driving, morning show payola, the state of the art of fact checking, the role of journalists at the end of the world, and the pop-culture myth of space madness. | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fox News Gets Tough on Candidates and More | The upside of debates, government seizure of domain names, a free speech loophole in Malaysia, and a Cambodian journalist spends 10 years as a one man truth and reconciliation commission. | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Revenge Porn, Cyber Warfare and More | Posting nude picture of others online for revenge, a former News of the World reporter exposes underhanded tabloid techniques, and the real threat of cyber warfare. | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The SuperCommittee, scandals and more | The failure of the Supercommittee, how our biases blind us to obvious economic truths, and a collection of our favorite stories about scandals. | 11/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Covering the NBA Lockout and More | The challenges faced by sports journalists covering the NBA lockout, a new attitude in the Middle East against regimes killing their own people and the story of a joke Facebook game that became more popular than its designer ever imagined. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Murdochs in the Hot Seat and More | The firing of Joe Paterno, the morally hazardous world of monetized hyperlinks, surveilling yourself so the FBI won't have to, and the media's preoccupation with dissociative identity disorder (AKA multiple personality disorder.) | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Journalists Holding Signs and More | The rise of SuperPacs, trying to take down the adult section of Backpage.com and a former WNYC freelancer discusses her dismissal after participating in Occupy Wall Street. | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NPR Controversy , TV News and More | Another NPR controversy, covering the Iraq withdrawal and the latest in TV news. | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Occupy Everything and More | The Occupy protests go global, the shifting meaning of the word "occupy," and Bob Garfield reports from South Africa on its state-run media, and the world of South African political satire. | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street and More | The Tea Party attempts to vilify Occupy Wall Street, the Mormon church launches a PR campaign, swearing on TV as a comedic device, radical literature for children. | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Occupy Wall Street and More | Paying attention to Occupy Wall Street, jumping the gun on reporting the Amanda Knox verdict, and a look back at Steve Jobs and Apple's iconic advertising. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On the Media: September 30, 2011 | The "Irvine 11" conviction, Rick Santorum's Google problem, and gaming as a real-life problem solving tool. | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On the Media: September 23, 2011 | It's hack week! Discussing the meaning of the word "hacker," the broad use of an anti-hacking law, and the Internet's volunteer anti-hacker task force. Also, the resignation of Al Jazeera Director General Wadah Khanfar. | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On the Media: September 16, 2011 | Reporters making predictions about the 2012 election, the advantage of late night legal advertisements and escaping wi-fi in a remote West Virginia town. | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On the Media: September 9, 2011 | Ten years after 9/11, a look at the state of American civil liberties, growing up after the attack, and the evolution of 9/11 humor. | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On the Media: September 2, 2011 | How the government handles information that's in the public domain but remains classified, the increasing frequency of scientific paper retractions, measuring the hype around hurricane Irene. | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On the Media: August 26, 2011 | Misinformation in the fog of war, the past present and future of Libyan media, Teddy Roosevelt's reading habits, and musicians fight to regain copyrights. | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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August 19, 2011 | The media's coverage of political gaffes, Amazon's foray into publishing, and when authorities restrict access to social media. | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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August 12, 2011 | This week, we look into the monolithic impact Google has on our lives for better and for worse. | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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August 5, 2011 | A special, live broadcast of On the Media. Brooke, Bob, Ethan Zuckerman and other guests on the question: will the internet deliver us or destroy us? | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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July 29, 2011 | Fact checking the debt ceiling showdown, a journalist's analysis of the alleged Oslo gunman's manifesto, literally burying a story in China | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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July 22, 2011 | Is the public - and the media - getting bored of the Murdoch News of the World scandal? Were they ever interested to begin with? Plus the history of pie throwing as political statement, the relative ease of hacking a cell phone, and the 100th birthday of Marshall McLuhan. | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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July 15, 2011 | This week we explore the 'debt ceiling', internet self-regulation and tabloids - both now and in the 1970's. | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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July 8, 2011 | On this week's show it's (nearly) all scandal - News of the World!, Casey Anthony!, the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit and ... scandal magnet Lenny Dysktra. | 7/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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July 1, 2011 | An encore broadcast of our one-hour look at the history, the culture and the future of video games. Whether you know it or not you're likely a gamer and games are creeping into nearly every aspect of life; an hour on how far video games have come and where they're going. | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 24, 2011 | The rules of cyber war, how "conventional wisdom" comes to be, and remembering E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons. Guest hosted by Mike Pesca. | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 17, 2011 | A hacker's insight into recent hacks; Libya's unrest becomes a civil war in the media; Brooke's journey through the echo chamber debate | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 10, 2011 | A Texas massacre that wasn't, a visit to internet week and a new movie about the extremes of virtual life. | 6/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 3, 2011 | Rumors pervade the media, journalists caught in Pakistan information war and tattoo copyrights | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May 27, 2011 | Patriot Act renewal, sex robots disguised as people | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May 20, 2011 | French media reacts to DSK, the Syrian regime's digital dirty tricks | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May 13, 2011 | Data Show. | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May 6, 2011 | Bin Laden exits the scene | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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April 29, 2011 | PlayStation's breach, iPhone's privacy issues, WikiLeaks' Guantanamo leak and Obama's birth certificate. | 4/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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April 22, 2011 | Copyright trolling, sock puppets and invisible ink | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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April 15, 2011 | On the Media reports from Cairo, Egypt! | 4/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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April 8, 2011 | For the love of slang, reporting from Libya and defending the First | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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April 1, 2011 | The conclusion of our Blow the Whistle investigation of the secret hold that killed the Whistle Blower Protection Act | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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March 25, 2011 | Bias and public radio, part 3; how wars get named; pundits fill the information vacuum on Libya | 3/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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March 18, 2011 | Investigating whether NPR has a liberal bias and James O'Keefe on James O'Keefe | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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March 11, 2011 | NPR under fire | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 50 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Omphaloskepsis at its snarky finest
After This American Life, probably the best podcast out there. Hosts Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone dissect the media-week’s preoccupations and pretensions with rare verve. Features include etymologies of conspicuously noisome buzzwords, incestuously self-perpetuating media fixations (like the supposedly 50,000 child predators on the loose) and occasional dispatches from underreported sections of this planet. The sensibility of the program is more redolent of the Daily Show than Reliable Sources or Charlie Rose. The particular genius of On the Media is its pursuit of the uncomfortable and the complex with a sensibility alive to hypocrisy and non sequitur. The hosts’ interviews often crackle with tension as a newspaper editor or politician realizes the sound bite he prepared is going to crumple and die under determined questioning. Don’t miss it.
Brilliant Media Analysis!
A wonderful show about the way you get your news. Expect a look at where the week’s new comes from, not just what it is. Hear relevant, timely, and riveting stories of the news as it is crafted for your consumption.
My favorite show
I am an omniverous listener to NPR, but this show is my favorite of any of their offerings. Their look at the media is witty, informative, and often laugh out loud funny. I often find myself quoting the show, and recomending it to my friends. Thanks Bob and Brooke!
