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On the Media

On the Media

WNYC Studios

News, Radio, Amendment, Transparency, History, Micah_loewinger, Technology, Advertising, Politics, Society & Culture, Magazine, Journalism, Tv, Wnyc, Newspaper, Brooke_gladstone, Studios, Npr, Newspapers, Media

4.69.1K Ratings

Overview

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.

1881 Episodes

I.C.E.'s "Wartime Recruitment" Campaign

Hiring at the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency.

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2026

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.

Transcribed - Published: 29 May 2026

A Russian Phrasebook for Surviving Authoritarianism

From apparatchik to samizdat, Russians have lots of words for describing life under an oppressive government.

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2026

Episode 4 of American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA

FEMA’s uncertain future. Plus, what happens when the next disaster strikes?

Transcribed - Published: 22 May 2026

Trump's Refugee Program Is Reserved for Whites Only

10,000 new spots for Afrikaners

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2026

Episode 3 of American Emergency; The Movement To Kill FEMA

Oh, and there's a basic statistical error in the majority's opinion.

Transcribed - Published: 15 May 2026

How "Economic Blindness" Is Obscuring Our Financial Reality

Plus, how human psychology might play a role.

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2026

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.

Transcribed - Published: 8 May 2026

Trump's Glitzy Library Grift

A shrine to a president, hold the records.

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2026

American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA

How did the agency tasked with saving Americans become despised, distrusted, and defunded?

Transcribed - Published: 1 May 2026

How a Prison Fire Helped Create CBS News

The forgotten history of CBS's first breaking news radio report, delivered by a charismatic inmate

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2026

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!

Transcribed - Published: 24 April 2026

Predicting the News

Prediction markets are in the headlines again

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2026

Influencers Usher In A New Era For #MeToo

Plus, Hungary's new Prime Minister vows to dismantle Orban's "factory of lies"

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2026

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.

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2026

Trump’s “Madman Theory” Is on Full Display in Iran

Plus, shortwave radio in the 21st century.

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2026

A New Day for the Press in Hungary?

What might follow this weekend's national election.

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2026

Pete Hegseth is Praying for a Holy War

Plus, Peter Thiel’s theory of the antichrist.

Transcribed - Published: 3 April 2026

The Danger of Keeping Score

And why games, like Twister and Dungeons and Dragons, can point us in the right direction...

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2026

The Pentagon Kicks the Press Out … Again

Plus, meet the new Pentagon press corps.

Transcribed - Published: 27 March 2026

Trans People are Facing a 'Dual State' in Trump's America

How to make sense of the deluge of attacks on trans rights.

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2026

Trump Demands Patriotic Coverage of the War in Iran. Or Else….

Plus, AI war fakery is getting trickier than ever.

Transcribed - Published: 20 March 2026

A Win For Mr. Nobody!

Mr. Nobody Against Putin Wins An Oscar!

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2026

Hegseth’s Pentagon Axed a Program Meant to Save Civilian Lives

Then the bombing started in Iran

Transcribed - Published: 13 March 2026

A Good Sign For the VOA?

A new district court ruling may be a good sign for the future of Voice of America.

Transcribed - Published: 11 March 2026

The AI-Powered War Machines Are Here

AI warfare in Iran; and standing up for democracy

Transcribed - Published: 7 March 2026

A New Doc Questions The Legacy of "To Catch A Predator"

The beginning of our true crime era.

Transcribed - Published: 4 March 2026

The Ellisons Prepare to Expand Their Media Empire

Media capture, media danger, and media power

Transcribed - Published: 28 February 2026

The Century-Long Capture of U.S. Media

Capitalists, oligarchs, and authoritarians, oh my!

Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2026

The Man With a Plan to Reshape Broadcast TV

(by making it more conservative)

Transcribed - Published: 21 February 2026

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.

Transcribed - Published: 18 February 2026

The Social Media Addiction Trials Begin

Meta and Google go on trial for ‘addicting’ kids. Plus, betting infiltrates cable TV.

Transcribed - Published: 14 February 2026

An Internet Blackout Hides A Regime's Excesses

During an internet blackout, thousands of protestors are killed in Iran by armed government forces.

Transcribed - Published: 11 February 2026

How the Justice Department Failed Epstein’s Victims

A failure of justice and champions of Puerto Rican culture.

Transcribed - Published: 6 February 2026

"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.

Transcribed - Published: 4 February 2026

Videos of ICE Violence Are Plentiful. Accountability.… Not So Much.

Plus, what the Boston Massacre can teach us about Minneapolis.

Transcribed - Published: 31 January 2026

Stars and Stripes in Peril

Stars and Stripes gets an uninvited makeover courtesy of the DOD

Transcribed - Published: 28 January 2026

Trump's Plan to Tank America

Plus, how ICE watches and recruits us.

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2026

Trump's War On the Fed [EXTENDED VERSION]

MORE MARK BLYTH!

Transcribed - Published: 21 January 2026

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.

Transcribed - Published: 17 January 2026

Who is Russell Vought?

Donald Trump's "Darth Vader"

Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2026

A Deadly ICE Shooting in Minnesota. Plus, Trump Plays King in Venezuela.

Debunking Minnesota claims; why Trump keeps threatening global takeovers.

Transcribed - Published: 9 January 2026

The Forgotten History of the First Sitcom

Who is Gertrude Berg?

Transcribed - Published: 7 January 2026

How Debate Took Over the Internet. Plus, a Case for Confronting the Past.

Our hosts’ favorite segments of 2025

Transcribed - Published: 2 January 2026

The Rapid Rise of Bari Weiss

How Bari Weiss got here.

Transcribed - Published: 31 December 2025

Is it Over Yet? 2025 in Review

Onward and upward

Transcribed - Published: 26 December 2025

A Hundred Years of The New Yorker

How the Netflix documentary got made.

Transcribed - Published: 24 December 2025

Deep Fakes, Data Centers, and AI Slop — Are We Cooked?

AI–everything everywhere all at once

Transcribed - Published: 20 December 2025

Big Tech Embraced Fakeness in 2025

AI slop anyone?

Transcribed - Published: 17 December 2025

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.

Transcribed - Published: 13 December 2025

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