As journalists, our primary loyalties reside with our audience.

Reporting information from the Sony hacks, ethical violation or public service.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

This week, we bid farewell to an American icon

who harnessed pomp and smarm to produce searing cultural satire.

Anyone can read the news to you.

I promise to feel the news at you.

And the demise of another media icon,

Cat Fancy Magazine.

Now we have this world where the two most famous cats are Little Bub and Grumpy Cat, who are both deformed.

That would have been anathema to anybody who is a subscriber to Cat Fancy.

There's more coming up after this.

Music cat fancy. There's more coming up after this. From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

So let's talk about this big Sony hack.

A group calling itself the Guardians of Peace claims to have stolen upwards of 100 terabytes of data from Sony Pictures Entertainment,

releasing everything from salaries and

social security numbers to emails full of snotty studio gossip to such work materials as the

latest James Bond movie script. Unnamed intelligence officials reportedly point the finger at North

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