The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Host Brooke Gladstone examines threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 25 days 17 hours 6 minutes
What It's Like to Follow Chris Christie for Five Years
American Governor: Chris Christie’s Bridge to Redemption was not the story that Matt Katz thought he was going to write when he accepted the biography book deal back in 2013. The New Jersey Governor had just won a landslide election in a blue state and s
Terms of Engagement
A Mexican journalist reacts to Sean Penn's interview with El Chapo; Bob checks back in with the Pentagon on rules concerning journalists in wartime; and the history of copyright, from dictionary pioneer Noah Webster to digital crusader Aaron Swartz.
Brooke on the Longform Podcast
Max Linsky, co-host of the Longform Podcast, paid Brooke a visit this week. They discuss why she's a "tough" editor, how she resists boredom, and her unconventional introduction to journalism (a man, a bar, and missiles). Sign up for OTM's weekly newslet
Common Sense
President Obama began the year with a plea for "common sense" gun safety but admitted that it won't be easy. We examine the myths and messages that surround, and often obscure, the national conversation on gun safety. Plus, do most Americans really suppo
Who Bought the Las Vegas Review-Journal?
On December 10, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada’s largest daily paper, was purchased by an unidentified buyer for a $140 million - far more than it sold for less than a year earlier. The smart money was on Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate and Rep
Digital Dark Age
What if, either by the slow creep of technological obsolescence or sudden cosmic disaster, we were cut off from our electronic records?
To Your Health!
A special hour on the dodgy world of health news, from scary studies and so-called “medical breakthroughs” to celebrity-endorsed miracle cures and people who fake illness online.
Politically Correct
What you hear about the Paris climate agreement depends on whom you ask. We sort through the competing messages about what was achieved. Plus, how to spot an accurate election poll as the primaries edge closer; and what the GOP presidential candidates' w
A Very Semi-Serious Conversation
This is Bob Mankoff’s time. The cartoon editor of the New Yorker has just published a memoir: “How About Never. Is Never Good for You?” He’s a regular on WNYC’s The New Yorker Radio Hour. And he was featured in the documentary “Very Semi-Serious,” whic
Take Responsibility
Some of Donald Trump's opponents have labeled him a demagogue - but are they right? And, if so, what is there to be done? Plus: Bob reflects on the media feeding frenzy in the house of the San Bernardino shooters; and the life, and self-documented death,