Summary: <p class="p1">Mainstream journalists keep falling for crypto scams that can end up costing their audiences a fortune. On this week’s On the Media, hear why all of us might want to become at least a bit literate in crypto-technology. Plus, the story of an American pundit living in Moscow, who’s being paid to be Russian TV’s favorite punching bag. </p> <p class="p1">1. Adam Davidson [<a href="https://twitter.com/adamdavidson?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@adamdavidson</a>], founder of NPR's Planet Money, on the need for market context when reporting on cryptocurrency. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/giant-pool-digital-tokens-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p class="p1">2. Katie Notopoulos [<a href="https://twitter.com/katienotopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@katienotopoulos</a>], senior tech reporter at BuzzFeed and Maxwell Strachan [<a href="https://twitter.com/maxwellstrachan?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@maxwellstrachan</a>], features writer and editor at Motherboard at VICE, on the backlash from covering crypto investors who'd rather remain anonymous. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/why-does-crypto-world-care-so-much-about-pseudonyms-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p class="p1">3. OTM producer Molly Schwartz [<a href="https://twitter.com/mollyfication">@mollyfication</a>], on how Russian TV downplays talk of war using an American as a straw man. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/american-pundit-moscow-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p class="p1"><em>Music:</em></p> <p class="p1"><em>I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles by Classic Carnival Circus Calliope MusicNewsreel by Randy NewmanAve Maria - Pascal Jean & Jean Brenders Avalon by Randy NewmanFergus Roundelay by Gerry O'BeirneSonata for Violin and Guitar (Mauro Giuliani) by Itzhak Perlman & John WilliamsPeter and the Wolf (Prokofiev) by Mario Rossi & Wiener Opernochester</em></p> <p class="p1"><em> </em></p>
