On the Media
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 outlet...
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The Latest Spin on 'Signalgate.' Plus, a Crypto President is Born.
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Trouble At the EPA
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Voice of America Goes Quiet. And, Apocalypse Now?
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"Tough Love For Liberals"
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Mahmoud Khalil and a New Red Scare. Plus, Press Freedom Under Threat.
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The Baltimore Sun Is In Trouble
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Trump’s On-and-Off-Again Tariffs, and Decoding ‘Make America Healthy Again’
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How Does Kash Patel Compare to J. Edgar Hoover?
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The New 'State Media.' Plus, Podcasters Are Running the FBI.
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Writing (and Rewriting) Russian History
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Learning Elon Musk’s Media Playbook. Plus, Silicon Valley’s Rightwing Roots.
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How Kash Patel Came to Loathe the Media and Love Trump
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Donald Trump is Rewriting the Past. Plus, the Christian Groups Vying for Politic...
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The J6 Commutations Have Ripple Effects
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How Wired Magazine is Scooping the Competition. Plus, Whither the Democrats?
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Musk's Meddling in European Politics
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Is That Legal? Plus, DeepSeek and the A.I. Bubble.
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Brooke Talks AI With Ed Zitron
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Week One of Trump 2.0
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Wars Are Won By Stories
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Farewell TikTok? Plus, the Role of Memory and Forgetting with the L.A. Wildfires...
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A Shake Up In The Briefing Room?
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Public Broadcasting Is In Danger (Again)
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How Trump Re-Wrote the History of January 6
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America’s Empire State of Mind
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Do Sex Scandals Matter Anymore in Politics?
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How AI and Algorithms Are Transforming Music
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A New Film Unearths the Depths of Netanyahu's Corruption
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The Harvard Plan: The Universities Are The Enemy
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How to Plan for Inevitable Disaster
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A Cold-Blooded Killing Ignites a National Conversation. Plus, Part Two of The Ha...
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Enron is Back, and Birds Aren't Real
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Donald Trump’s Cabinet of Influencers. Plus, The Harvard Plan.
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Kash Patel’s Crusade Against the Media
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How Conservative Talk Radio Came to Dominate the Airwaves
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Hank Green Makes the Truth Go Viral (EXTENDED VERSION)
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How Hank Green Makes the Truth Go Viral. Plus, the Escape Fantasies of the Uber...
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Why Men And Boys Are Struggling
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Fox News is Back at the White House. Plus, No Joke, The Onion Buys Infowars.
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Using Conspiracy Theories to Make Sense of a Loss
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The Manosphere Celebrates a Win. Plus, M. Gessen on How to Survive an Autocracy
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The Day After
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Toxic Election Lies Spread, Jeff Bezos Sows Chaos at The Post and How The Media...
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Why Trump is a Fascist (EXTENDED VERSION)
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Fascism, Fear and the Science Behind Horror Films
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Kamala Harris is Trying to Make Climate Action Patriotic
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Can a Billion Dollars Buy an Election?
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‘The Apprentice’: Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Pursuit of Power
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The Presidential Election That Put Fox News On the Map
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A Storm of BS In The Wake Of Hurricane Helene
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