Summary: <p>It’s been a week of legal battles, from Donald Trump’s second impeachment to Britney Spears’s fight for control over her finances and her career. On this week's On the Media, a look at the new documentary that’s put the pop star back in the spotlight. Plus, how revisiting stories of maligned women from the 90s can help us understand our media — and ourselves. </p> <p>1. Brooke considers the developments this week in the impeachment trial, and also its wild distortion in some corners of the media. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/lessons-insurrection-impeachment-trial-on-the-media">Listen.</a> </p> <p>2. Samantha Stark [<a href="https://twitter.com/starksamantha">@starksamantha</a>], director of the <em>New York Times</em> documentary “Framing Britney Spears,” on the #FreeBritney movement and the #WeAreSorryBritney reckoning. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/freeing-britney-on-the-media">Listen.</a> </p> <p>3. Sarah Marshall [<a href="https://twitter.com/Remember_Sarah">@Remember_Sarah</a>] and Michael Hobbes [<a href="https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark">@RottenInDenmark</a>], hosts of the You're Wrong About podcast, on how coverage of maligned women in the 1990s fueled lasting and harmful myths. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/youre-wrong-about-comes-on-the-media">Listen.</a> </p> <p><em>Music from this week's show:</em><em>Equinox — John Coltrane</em><em>Invitation to a Suicide — John Zorn </em><em>Baby One More Time — Britney Spears </em><em>Cello Song — Nick Drake </em><em>Fellini’s Waltz — Nino Rota</em><em>La Vie En Rose — Toots Thielemans</em></p>
