On the Media

with Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield

WNYC’s weekly investigation into how the media shapes our worldview. 

  • Billion Dollar Idea

    Jan 29, 2021
    Public health facts and fibs, vaccines as secret sauce, and, of course, GameStonk. 
  • Did Lulz Break Wall Street?

    Jan 28, 2021
    How bored Redditors turned the stock market — which is absurd — into something very, very absurd. 
  • The Trump Inc. Podcast Made a Time Capsule

    Jan 20, 2021
    A birth certificate, a bar receipt, a newspaper ad, a board game, a Ziploc bag of shredded paper, a pair of museum tickets, some checks, and a USB drive. The series finale of Trump, Inc.
  • You Missed a Spot

    Jan 15, 2021
    Revealing Zello's role in last week's riot, making a case for deplatforming, and exploring the idea of responsible social media. 
  • Breaking the Myth

    Jan 8, 2021
    Making sense of the events at the Capitol on Wednesday, unpacking the right-wing "Lost Cause" myth and its historical antecedent, and revisiting "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."
  • The World, Remade

    Jan 1, 2021
    How the pandemic has shaped our future: from the built environment, to the way we work, to the way we learn.

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