On the Media
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On the Media
@onthemedia.bsky.social
A weekly radio show and podcast on all things media produced and distributed by WNYC Studios — onthemedia.org

Hosted by @brookegladstone.bsky.social & @micahloewinger.bsky.social
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Appreciate Brooke’s pushback on that Third Way Overton-window-shifter – just wish the interview had happened after today’s bizarro White House meeting to blow up the guy’s “Mamdani is a problem for Democrats” take.
On this week’s show: @gelliottmorris.com fact-checks the claim that Dems need more moderate voters to win; @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social on why he sees Zohran Mamdani as a ‘political problem’ for Dems; @senanaliseortiz.bsky.social on why door-knocking is essential. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Don’t @ us: this week’s show was already done when 86 house dems voted to condemn socialism(!), Mamdani met and charmed Trump, and MTG announced she’s stepping down in Jan. So none of that is in this week’s episode. But it’s excellent nonetheless. Enjoy! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
The Battle for the Future of the Democratic Party | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Progressive and centrist Democratic candidates had big wins in the 2025 elections. On this week’s On the Media, a data scientist fact-checks the claim that Democrats need moderate vot...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
On this week’s show: @gelliottmorris.com fact-checks the claim that Dems need more moderate voters to win; @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social on why he sees Zohran Mamdani as a ‘political problem’ for Dems; @senanaliseortiz.bsky.social on why door-knocking is essential. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
November 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds.
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Pranksters Recreated a Working Version of Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail Inbox
Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Word on the street is that Oliver's producers listened to our episode on this topic and used some audio we got from Blue Ridge Public Radio!
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Wild to think that just a few months ago this administration was cracking down on universities for not doing enough to root out antisemitism www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New midweek podcast! Check your feeds 👇
Hats off to @onthemedia.bsky.social for calling out the spam machines behind politics. Bravo! I for one, have created a series of filters and fake emails just to defeat this crapola pain in the butt money shilling. Damn, I hope Dems take the hint.

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The Democratic Party's Spam Machine | On the Media | WNYC Studios
If you’ve ever donated to a Democratic candidate, you’ve probably been rewarded with a never-ending stream of pleas for more money.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Oh yeah baby and it's good! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
S2 - Episode 1: The Harvard Plan | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The Harvard Plan is back! 
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November 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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ICYMI: The White House has laid out a plan to challenge any and all state AI regulations and Trump could sign the EO to do so as early as this week.

More w/ @mzeff.bsky.social

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Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order
The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Will say it one more time: Student-run college papers really are leading the way right now.
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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I've only just started this podcast series, but it's great so far!
Give it a listen.
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Perhaps there's a version of the news distortion doctrine that's consistent with the First Amendment, but the version of it that Carr is wielding here is not going to survive constitutional scrutiny.
Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.

Here it is:
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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"The media outlets and tech platforms that settled with Trump chose to give him money because they *wanted* to. They could have fought and won, since Trump’s lawsuits (and his lawyering) are universally terrible."
CNN shows that when media orgs fight Trump, they win
Take this grift and shove it.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Big thanks to @npr.org for boosting The Harvard Plan, our new co-production with @bostonglobe.com about the Trump administration's war on science. Listen to Season 2 Episode 1 in the Embedded podcast feed:
The Harvard Plan: And so it begins… : Embedded
The Harvard Plan, a collaboration between On the Media and The Boston Globe, is about the fight for the soul of America’s oldest and most prestigious university. In the new season, they explore what h...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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New from me this morning, a deep dive on Elon Musk's Grokipedia-- the forthrightness of the white nationalist and eugenic advocacy in many entries surprised me and the experts I spoke to www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
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November 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Reporter @ilyamarritz.bsky.social and his @bostonglobe.com colleague @hilaryburns.bsky.social speak with university leaders across the country about how they are responding to the Trump administration’s assault on academia. Listen now: https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
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November 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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This is fantastic.

An extremely clear, concise, and logical summation/primer on the state of *actual* anti-semitism in the MAGA Cinematic Universe.

Kudos to @micahloewinger.bsky.social and @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social for the precision and info-density of the chat.
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The Republican Party's 'Civil War'
Podcast Episode · On the Media · 11/12/2025 · 26m
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November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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our third & final episode of The Harvard Plan is out now, from @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social

featuring:
- Trump highed ed strategist May Mailman
- Claudine Gay getting candid
- Vannevar Bush, the father of uni-gov't cooperation

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S2 - Episode 3: The Harvard Plan | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The Trump administration is asking universities to sign an agreement in exchange for preferential access to federal funding. On this week’s On the Media, how the arrangement would rad...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
In the third and final episode of The Harvard Plan (season 2), reporter @ilyamarritz.bsky.social speaks with the architect of Trump’s crackdown on higher education. Take a listen: https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
📻 Tune into this week’s show: The Harvard Plan is back! In the third, and final, episode of season 2, @ilyamarritz.bsky.social speaks with the architect of Trump’s crackdown on higher education.
: https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM