Summary: <p>On this week’s On the Media, a look at the journalists and newspapers we lost in 2021, and hopes for the press in the year ahead. Plus, is the ever-popular genre of true crime good for us? And the mob gets a podcast. 1. Micah Loewinger [<a href="https://twitter.com/MicahLoewinger">@micahloewinger</a>], tells Brooke about a year of newspaper closures, murdered journalists, and the end of the Trump Bump. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/what-press-lost-2021-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>2. Emma Berquist [<a href="https://twitter.com/eeberquist">@eeberquist</a>], author of <em><a href="https://www.emmaberquist.com/devils-unto-dust/">Devils Unto Dust</a>, </em>on how the true crime genre can rot our brains. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/consequences-true-crime-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>3. Rachel Corbett [<a href="https://twitter.com/rachelncorbett">@RachelNCorbett</a>], author of <a href="http://www.rachel-corbett.com/about"><em>You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin</em></a><a href="http://www.rachel-corbett.com/about">,</a> on why the feds love podcasts by mobsters. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/mob-gets-podcast-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p><em>Music:After The Fact by John Scofield</em><em>The Hammer of Los by John Zorn</em><em>Smooth Criminal by 2Cellos</em></p>
