Nach Genre filtern

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.

2994 - The White House on Mute

0:00 / 0:00

2994 - The White House on Mute
Plus a history of press access in the people’s house.
Fri, 25 Sep 2026 - 50min
2993 - The New Rules Of War Are There Are No Rules
The Iran war is back in the headlines (it never left).
Wed, 23 Sep 2026 - 29min
2992 - How Extinction Entered the AI Debate
And human debaters face-off with chatbots
Sat, 19 Sep 2026 - 50min
2991 - How To Make A Documentary, With John Wilson
John Wilson's new doc is out this fall, "The History of Concrete"
Wed, 16 Sep 2026 - 35min
2990 - Haitians Live in a Dual State in Ohio Right Now
Plus, the next frontier for the AI debate? Classrooms.
Fri, 11 Sep 2026 - 50min
2989 - Dave Jorgenson on Politics in the Influencer Age
And why we need to regulate it.
Wed, 9 Sep 2026 - 29min
2988 - The Pentagon is Waging War on Its Own Paper
Plus, the woman shaping Trump’s media diet.
Fri, 4 Sep 2026 - 50min
2987 - A Look Back at *The* 9/11 Truther Movie
How 9/11 broke our brains.
Wed, 2 Sep 2026 - 16min
2986 - Finance Bros Are Coming for the Public Airwaves
The battle over our public airwaves.
Fri, 28 Aug 2026 - 50min
2985 - How AI Chatbots are Infiltrating Classrooms
And what parents can do about it.
Wed, 26 Aug 2026 - 23min
2984 - Long Live the Art of Shoe-Leather Reporting!
Plus, combing through the Epstein Files.
Fri, 21 Aug 2026 - 50min
2983 - Behind the Scenes of 'American Emergency'
Sharing our live show.
Thu, 20 Aug 2026 - 41min
2982 - How the U.S. Government Built an Underground City, and Other State Secrets
How FEMA's secretive beginnings fed conspiracy theories that haunt the agency today.
Fri, 14 Aug 2026 - 50min
2981 - Pablo Torre Is Changing Sports
How the YouTuber and sports journalist changing up the industry.
Wed, 12 Aug 2026 - 20min
2980 - The Story Behind Trump’s Terrible Approval Rating
Plus, the origins of Trump’s media watchdog.
Fri, 7 Aug 2026 - 50min
2979 - Trump Has Forever Changed America's Place in the World
Remember Trump's threats about Greenland?
Wed, 5 Aug 2026 - 18min
2978 - F@#$ the AI Overlords
A guide to getting AI to work for us, and not the other way around.
Fri, 31 Jul 2026 - 50min
2977 - ICE's Summer Spending Spree
The agency buying all the data it can.
Wed, 29 Jul 2026 - 19min
2976 - The Red Scare, But Dumber
And the dogged journalist covering ICE’s airplane activities.
Sat, 25 Jul 2026 - 50min
2975 - Trump v. BBC
How Trump bit off more than he could chew.
Wed, 22 Jul 2026 - 24min
2974 - From Subpoenas to Cockroaches: Journalist Intimidation 101
Plus, a documentary about the eBay stalking scandal.
Fri, 17 Jul 2026 - 50min
2973 - Tulsi Gabbard's Guru
Washington Post journalist Jon Swaine uncovered a trove of emails that hint at how the former Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard was influenced by the leader of a cult-like group.
Wed, 15 Jul 2026 - 34min
2972 - The FCC’s Pressure Campaign to Reshape Broadcast TV
And the man with the legal theory behind it.
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 - 50min
2971 - A Tour Through the Epstein Files
Inside the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.
Wed, 8 Jul 2026 - 21min
2970 - A Newspaper Raid and a Small Town Whodunnit
A local paper gets searched by police. Tragedy ensues.
Fri, 3 Jul 2026 - 50min
2969 - The Rest Is History
From our friends at the New Yorker Radio Hour.
Wed, 1 Jul 2026 - 47min
2968 - The Fantasy of America at 250
Plus, life sentences for zine-makers in Texas.
Fri, 26 Jun 2026 - 50min
2967 - Far Right Stars Are Bemoaning the Chaos They Created
The 'hot dog' men of the far right.
Wed, 24 Jun 2026 - 22min
2966 - J.D. Vance: Iran Deal Fall Guy
Blaming Vance, a ‘catastrophic capitulation,’ and a MAGA breakup.
Fri, 19 Jun 2026 - 51min
2965 - The Cat Ladies Haven't Forgotten
In his new book, JD Vance tries to walk back his old "childless cat lady" comments.
Wed, 17 Jun 2026 - 17min
2964 - The UK’s Violent Riots Were Stoked by Elon Musk and a Global Far-Right Network
The trillionaire's role in Belfast; chaos at 60 Minutes; and how to survive authoritarianism.
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 - 51min
2963 - "Making China Great Again" One Web-Novel At A Time
A deep dive into "Make China Great Again" internet literature.
Wed, 10 Jun 2026 - 20min
2962 - How Anthropic Became Holier Than Thou
Plus, a literary AI scandal heralds a new era of publishing and journalism.
Fri, 5 Jun 2026 - 50min
2961 - I.C.E.'s "Wartime Recruitment" Campaign
Hiring at the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency.
Wed, 3 Jun 2026 - 15min
2960 - 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.
Fri, 29 May 2026 - 50min
2959 - A Russian Phrasebook for Surviving Authoritarianism
From apparatchik to samizdat, Russians have lots of words for describing life under an oppressive government.
Wed, 27 May 2026 - 29min
2958 - Episode 4 of American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA
FEMA’s uncertain future. Plus, what happens when the next disaster strikes?
Fri, 22 May 2026 - 51min
2957 - Trump's Refugee Program Is Reserved for Whites Only
10,000 new spots for Afrikaners
Wed, 20 May 2026 - 16min
2956 - Episode 3 of American Emergency; The Movement To Kill FEMA
Oh, and there's a basic statistical error in the majority's opinion.
Fri, 15 May 2026 - 33min
2955 - How "Economic Blindness" Is Obscuring Our Financial Reality
Plus, how human psychology might play a role.
Wed, 13 May 2026 - 23min
2954 - 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.
Fri, 8 May 2026 - 35min
2953 - Trump's Glitzy Library Grift
A shrine to a president, hold the records.
Wed, 6 May 2026 - 16min
2952 - American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA
How did the agency tasked with saving Americans become despised, distrusted, and defunded?
Fri, 1 May 2026 - 52min
2951 - How a Prison Fire Helped Create CBS News
The forgotten history of CBS's first breaking news radio report, delivered by a charismatic inmate
Wed, 29 Apr 2026 - 35min
2950 - 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!
Fri, 24 Apr 2026 - 50min
2949 - Predicting the News
Prediction markets are in the headlines again
Wed, 22 Apr 2026 - 17min
2948 - Influencers Usher In A New Era For #MeToo
Plus, Hungary's new Prime Minister vows to dismantle Orban's "factory of lies"
Sat, 18 Apr 2026 - 50min
2947 - 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.
Wed, 15 Apr 2026 - 43min
2946 - Trump’s “Madman Theory” Is on Full Display in Iran
Plus, shortwave radio in the 21st century.
Sat, 11 Apr 2026 - 50min
2945 - A New Day for the Press in Hungary?
What might follow this weekend's national election.
Wed, 8 Apr 2026 - 22min
2944 - Pete Hegseth is Praying for a Holy War
Plus, Peter Thiel’s theory of the antichrist.
Fri, 3 Apr 2026 - 50min
2943 - The Danger of Keeping Score
And why games, like Twister and Dungeons and Dragons, can point us in the right direction...
Wed, 1 Apr 2026 - 21min
2942 - The Pentagon Kicks the Press Out … Again
Plus, meet the new Pentagon press corps.
Fri, 27 Mar 2026 - 50min
2941 - Trans People are Facing a 'Dual State' in Trump's America
How to make sense of the deluge of attacks on trans rights.
Wed, 25 Mar 2026 - 24min
2940 - Trump Demands Patriotic Coverage of the War in Iran. Or Else….
Plus, AI war fakery is getting trickier than ever.
Fri, 20 Mar 2026 - 50min
2939 - A Win For Mr. Nobody!
Mr. Nobody Against Putin Wins An Oscar!
Wed, 18 Mar 2026 - 21min
2938 - Hegseth’s Pentagon Axed a Program Meant to Save Civilian Lives
Then the bombing started in Iran
Fri, 13 Mar 2026 - 50min
2937 - A Good Sign For the VOA?
A new district court ruling may be a good sign for the future of Voice of America.
Wed, 11 Mar 2026 - 13min
2936 - The AI-Powered War Machines Are Here
AI warfare in Iran; and standing up for democracy
Sat, 7 Mar 2026 - 50min
2935 - A New Doc Questions The Legacy of "To Catch A Predator"
The beginning of our true crime era.
Wed, 4 Mar 2026 - 18min
2934 - The Ellisons Prepare to Expand Their Media Empire
Media capture, media danger, and media power
Sat, 28 Feb 2026 - 50min
2933 - The Century-Long Capture of U.S. Media
Capitalists, oligarchs, and authoritarians, oh my!
Wed, 25 Feb 2026 - 21min
2932 - The Man With a Plan to Reshape Broadcast TV
(by making it more conservative)
Sat, 21 Feb 2026 - 50min
2931 - Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier
The story of a crime in a small, southern town…that became a spark for the budding civil rights movement.
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 - 09min
2930 - The Social Media Addiction Trials Begin
Meta and Google go on trial for ‘addicting’ kids. Plus, betting infiltrates cable TV.
Sat, 14 Feb 2026 - 50min
2929 - An Internet Blackout Hides A Regime's Excesses
During an internet blackout, thousands of protestors are killed in Iran by armed government forces.
Wed, 11 Feb 2026 - 18min
2928 - How the Justice Department Failed Epstein’s Victims
A failure of justice and champions of Puerto Rican culture.
Fri, 6 Feb 2026 - 50min
2927 - "Armed Only With A Camera"
Oscar-nominated documentary pays tribute to the work of the first American journalist killed by Russians while covering the war in Ukraine.
Wed, 4 Feb 2026 - 15min
2926 - Videos of ICE Violence Are Plentiful. Accountability.… Not So Much.
Plus, what the Boston Massacre can teach us about Minneapolis.
Sat, 31 Jan 2026 - 50min
2925 - Stars and Stripes in Peril
Stars and Stripes gets an uninvited makeover courtesy of the DOD
Wed, 28 Jan 2026 - 19min
2924 - Trump's Plan to Tank America
Plus, how ICE watches and recruits us.
Sat, 24 Jan 2026 - 50min
2923 - Trump's War On the Fed [EXTENDED VERSION]
MORE MARK BLYTH!
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 - 29min
2922 - Trump's War on the Fed, Explained. Plus, How One School Teacher Stood Up to Putin.
What’s happening at the Fed, and a new documentary from Russia.
Sat, 17 Jan 2026 - 50min
2921 - Who is Russell Vought?
Donald Trump's "Darth Vader"
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 - 22min
2920 - A Deadly ICE Shooting in Minnesota. Plus, Trump Plays King in Venezuela.
Debunking Minnesota claims; why Trump keeps threatening global takeovers.
Fri, 9 Jan 2026 - 50min
2919 - The Forgotten History of the First Sitcom
Who is Gertrude Berg?
Wed, 7 Jan 2026 - 20min
2918 - How Debate Took Over the Internet. Plus, a Case for Confronting the Past.
Our hosts’ favorite segments of 2025
Fri, 2 Jan 2026 - 50min
2917 - The Rapid Rise of Bari Weiss
How Bari Weiss got here.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 - 19min
2916 - Is it Over Yet? 2025 in Review
Onward and upward
Fri, 26 Dec 2025 - 52min
2915 - A Hundred Years of The New Yorker
How the Netflix documentary got made.
Wed, 24 Dec 2025 - 31min
2914 - Deep Fakes, Data Centers, and AI Slop — Are We Cooked?
AI–everything everywhere all at once
Sat, 20 Dec 2025 - 50min
2913 - Big Tech Embraced Fakeness in 2025
AI slop anyone?
Wed, 17 Dec 2025 - 30min
2912 - Trump Guns for the FTC. Plus, Are We the Losers in the Paramount v Netflix Battle?
The Supreme Court debates presidential power; Hollywood in existential crisis.
Sat, 13 Dec 2025 - 51min
2911 - How a Gossip Blogger (almost) Became the Poster Child for First Amendment Rights
Perez Hilton at the edge of journalism
Wed, 10 Dec 2025 - 23min
2910 - Covering the Pentagon, from Sy Hersh to Laura Loomer
Meet the new Pentagon press corps
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 - 1h 03min
2909 - No, DOGE Isn't Dead
One source said DOGE operatives had “burrowed into the agencies like ticks.”
Wed, 3 Dec 2025 - 16min
2908 - Tell Your Uncle He's Fighting Twitter Bots in Bangladesh
X is full of overseas bots, and a documentary about librarians
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 50min
2907 - Bullseye's Jesse Thorn on Surviving in the Podcasting Industry
This month marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Bullseye.
Wed, 26 Nov 2025 - 35min
2906 - The Battle for the Future of the Democratic Party
The Democrats’ identity crisis, explained.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 - 50min
2905 - The Democratic Party's Spam Machine
If you’ve ever donated to a Democratic candidate, you’ve probably been rewarded with a never-ending stream of pleas for more money in your inbox.
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 - 21min
2904 - S2 - Episode 3: The Harvard Plan
Inside the fight over the future of academic freedom.
Fri, 14 Nov 2025 - 51min
2903 - The Republican Party's 'Civil War'
A fight over anti-semitism has rocked the GOP
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 - 25min
2902 - S2 - Episode 2: The Harvard Plan
This week, it gets personal…
Fri, 7 Nov 2025 - 50min
2901 - Do Moderates Win More Elections?
The discourse around 'moderate vs. progressive' Democrats has gotten out of hand.
Wed, 5 Nov 2025 - 33min
2900 - The Harvard Plan is Back. Episode 1: And So It Begins...
A brand new season.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 - 49min
2899 - S2 - Episode 1: The Harvard Plan
And so it begins...
Wed, 29 Oct 2025 - 49min
2898 - Donald Trump's 'Darth Vader.' Plus, the Normalization of White Nationalist Nick Fuentes.
The “shadow president”; a white nationalist influencer; and the kids are alright?
Fri, 24 Oct 2025 - 51min
2897 - How Funding Cuts Are Changing Public Radio
How federal cuts are changing public media, and how our station is facing this critical moment.
Wed, 22 Oct 2025 - 16min
2896 - Big Tech is Silencing the ICE Watchers. Plus, Why a Scholar of Antifa Fled the Country.
Surveilling ICE; a historian forced to flee; and true-crime’s impact on real life.
Fri, 17 Oct 2025 - 50min
2895 - David Remnick: How The Two State Solution Ended in Disaster
Hussein Agha and Robert Malley spent decades trying to negotiate peace in the Middle East, and they know why it failed.
Wed, 15 Oct 2025 - 38min

Weitere Folgen anzeigen

Nach Genre filtern

On the Media

Podcasts ähnlich wie On the Media