On the Media

Welcome to our new summer series! Each week through Labor Day, we'll be pulling an OTM gem from our vast archives for you to enjoy on the beach, in a park... or on a sticky subway, while imagining you're on a beach.  For our first installation, a very classic and very special piece from one of our favorite contributors, John Solomon. If you've ever wondered about the inner workings of On the Media, you'll be sure to enjoy this one.    To hear more of our summer listening, don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts, and leave a review while you're there! And as always, follow us on twitter @OnTheMedia.   

On the popular misconceptions surrounding the Greek debt crisis, women whose lives were mistold by the media, and humor, both robotic and Soviet.

What if, either by the slow creep of technological obsolescence or sudden cosmic disaster, we were cut off from our electronic records? 

In the wake of another mass shooting tragedy, Brooke looks back at a history of racially-motivated hate crimes. Plus, the strength and responsibility of comedy in the face of extremism, misconceptions about the future of the Affordable Care Act, and the climate change deniers' "I'm not a scientist" defense.

As videos of police violence continue to make headlines, a guide to filming the police as a bystander. Plus, making sense of data breaches, a lesson in coding, and a trip into the future of storytelling, where virtual reality makes journalism a bodily experience.

Two newspapers' quests to count every person killed by police in 2015, how librarians shaped the original debate over the Patriot Act, and more.

Congress is locked in a battle over the future of the Patriot Act. This special hour of OTM reveals the origins of the act in a post-9/11 climate of fear... and considers whether it really is at the heart of the nation's struggle between security and privacy.

A surprisingly difficult -- and misleading -- question about the Iraq War, the police bombing that no one remembers, and the struggle of ownership in the age of the "Internet of Things."

In this final episode of On House of Cards, Brooke Gladstone discusses the twelfth and thirteenth episodes of the season with the show's creator and executive producer, Beau Willimon. Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review while you're there - they really help! And you can follow On the Media on twitter.

Seymour Hersh on his claim the White House version of how Osama Bin Laden was killed is a lie, how a New York City nail salon expose went viral, and Liberia: finally Ebola-free. 

This week legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an account of the killing of Osama bin Laden that directly contradicts the official narrative. Hersh’s use of anonymous sources have led many to cast doubt on the assertions in the article; CNN’s Peter Bergen called his story a “farrago of nonsense”. Bob talks with Hersh about the swirling controversy in this On the Media special podcast. 

What the media get wrong about earthquakes, surveillance the public loves and hates, and the creator of HBO's Veep.

In this episode of On House of Cards, Brooke Gladstone discusses the tenth and eleventh episodes of the season with Ron Klain, former Chief of Staff to VPs Al Gore and Joe Biden, and Amy Chozick, political reporter and current Hillary Clinton chronicler for the New York Times.  Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review while you're there - they really help! And you can follow On the Media on twitter.

The deep historical roots of the Baltimore protests, shedding light on drone strikes, and combating sex worker stereotypes. 

In this episode of On House of Cards, Brooke Gladstone discusses the ninth episode of the season with Michael Kelly, who plays Doug Stamper on House of Cards. Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review while you're there - they really help! And you can follow On the Media on twitter.