editors saying things to me like, you know, we have to be very careful about your reporting on this.

And I would say, well, should we be very careful with every story?

Standards for thee, others for me.

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

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

On this week's show how journalism selectively judges objectivity and bias.

In my experience, no one has ever said, let's say, to a combat veteran, you're too close to war.

You can't be a war correspondent or you can't cover veterans.

Also, Court TV made celebrities of lawyers and judges when it covered the O.J. Simpson trial, it's back

with gavel-the-gvel coverage of the murder trial of Derek Chauvin.

So who had a better day? Was it the prosecution or defense? Let's bring back in our think tank.

Prosecution all day. Absolutely the prosecution. It's not even close. It's the prosecution.

The comeback and the impact after this.

Hey, this is Michael Onger.

I'm a reporter slash producer with a little show called On the Media.

Heard of it?

Before we get into today's pod, I want to thank somebody that

has done a lot for me and our show. I'm talking about you. And not only because you listen

to the show, which honestly is kind of an awesome mind-boggling thing on its own, but because

you support the work we do as well.

It's your support that allows our entire team. That's Brooke and Bob, all the producers,

the engineers to spend hours and hours reading, watching, listening to the news, boiling it down to that bullion cube of

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