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In an era of information overload, On the Media helps you make sense of it all.A weekly program from National Public Radio and WNYC, New York Public Radio. IncludesMP3 Podcast enclosure.

 

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Graphic videos from Syria, covering the political horse race, and more
Updated: 2012-02-10 05:00:00
Description: To Tweet or not to Tweet graphic videos out of Syria, the seduction of covering the political horse race, and virtual pacifism in video games. ...more...

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The Facebook Show
Updated: 2012-02-03 05:00:00
Description: An Austrian man who got Facebook to give him everything they had on him, a writer whose rapist friended her on Facebook, the value of a "Like." Max Richter - Berlin by Overnight Max Richter - Cascade NW by W ...more...

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Supreme Court Justices at the State of the Union Address, Internet as Human Right, and more
Updated: 2012-01-27 05:00:00
Description: The strange tradition of Supreme Court Justices attending Presidential State of the Union Addresses, the future of warantless GPS tracking, and exploring the question of internet as a human right. ...more...

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Online Piracy, Superpacs and More
Updated: 2012-01-20 05:00:00
Description: The amazing story of the Megaupload take down, Italy's National Order of Journalists, and a man searches in vain for data produced by his own heart.  ...more...

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Telegraph Hackers, Naked Statues, and More
Updated: 2012-01-13 05:00:00
Description: A look back at a hacker from 1903, a story about Mitt Romney's dog that won't go away, and Supreme Court Justices looking at naked statues.  ...more...

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Disclosing Political Ad Buys, Gambling Online and More
Updated: 2012-01-06 20:29:35
Description: The benefit and burden of disclosing political ad buys online, new rules for internet gambling and using laugh tracks on TV. ...more...

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Last Year's Errors, Next Year's Predictions and More
Updated: 2011-12-30 17:51:57
Description: Major media errors of 2011, predictions for the media in 2012 and comment sections online. ...more...

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Egyptian Military Brutality, misleading political polls and more
Updated: 2011-12-23 20:07:58
Description: The Egyptian military's brutal turn on protesters, the usefulness of private versus public political polls and the process of developing apps for mobile devices. ...more...

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Texting While Driving, Space Madness and More
Updated: 2011-12-16 22:54:33
Description: A proposed ban on texting while driving, morning show payola, the state of the art of fact checking, the role of journalists at the end of the world, and the pop-culture myth of space madness. ...more...

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Fox News Gets Tough on Candidates and More
Updated: 2011-12-09 22:10:41
Description: The upside of debates, government seizure of domain names, a free speech loophole in Malaysia, and a Cambodian journalist spends 10 years as a one man truth and reconciliation commission. ...more...

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Revenge Porn, Cyber Warfare and More
Updated: 2011-12-02 21:51:27
Description: Posting nude picture of others online for revenge, a former News of the World reporter exposes underhanded tabloid techniques, and the real threat of cyber warfare. ...more...

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The SuperCommittee, scandals and more
Updated: 2011-11-25 15:03:19
Description: The failure of the Supercommittee, how our biases blind us to obvious economic truths, and a collection of our favorite stories about scandals. ...more...

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Covering the NBA Strike and More
Updated: 2011-11-18 20:59:07
Description: The challenges faced by sports journalists covering the NBA strike, a new attitude in the Middle East against regimes killing their own people and the story of a joke Facebook game that became more popular than its designer ever imagined. ...more...

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Murdochs in the Hot Seat and More
Updated: 2011-11-11 22:25:06
Description: The firing of Joe Paterno, the morally hazardous world of monetized hyperlinks, surveilling yourself so the FBI won't have to, and the media's preoccupation with dissociative identity disorder (AKA multiple personality disorder.) ...more...

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Journalists Holding Signs and More
Updated: 2011-11-04 19:48:11
Description: The rise of SuperPacs, trying to take down the adult section of Backpage.com and a former WNYC freelancer discusses her dismissal after participating in Occupy Wall Street. ...more...

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NPR Controversy , TV News and More
Updated: 2011-10-28 19:27:03
Description: Another NPR controversy, covering the Iraq withdrawal and the latest in TV news. ...more...

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Occupy Everything and More
Updated: 2011-10-21 19:55:17
Description: The Occupy protests go global, the shifting meaning of the word "occupy," and Bob Garfield reports from South Africa on its state-run media, and the world of South African political satire. ...more...

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The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street and More
Updated: 2011-10-14 20:13:29
Description: The Tea Party attempts to vilify Occupy Wall Street, the Mormon church launches a PR campaign, swearing on TV as a comedic device, radical literature for children. ...more...

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Occupy Wall Street and More
Updated: 2011-10-07 20:40:08
Description: Paying attention to Occupy Wall Street, jumping the gun on reporting the Amanda Knox verdict, and a look back at Steve Jobs and Apple's iconic advertising. ...more...

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On the Media: September 30, 2011
Updated: 2011-09-30 18:26:27
Description: The "Irvine 11" conviction, Rick Santorum's Google problem, and gaming as a real-life problem solving tool. ...more...

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On the Media: September 23, 2011
Updated: 2011-09-23 20:14:20
Description: It's hack week! Discussing the meaning of the word "hacker," the broad use of an anti-hacking law, and the Internet's volunteer anti-hacker task force. Also, the resignation of Al Jazeera Director General Wadah Khanfar. ...more...

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On the Media: September 16, 2011
Updated: 2011-09-16 21:22:10
Description: Reporters making predictions about the 2012 election, the advantage of late night legal advertisements and escaping wi-fi in a remote West Virginia town. ...more...

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On the Media: September 9, 2011
Updated: 2011-09-09 19:59:30
Description: Ten years after 9/11, a look at the state of American civil liberties, growing up after the attack, and the evolution of 9/11 humor. ...more...

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On the Media: September 2, 2011
Updated: 2011-09-02 22:03:10
Description: How the government handles information that's in the public domain but remains classified, the increasing frequency of scientific paper retractions, measuring the hype around hurricane Irene. ...more...

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On the Media: August 26, 2011
Updated: 2011-08-26 16:12:46
Description: Misinformation in the fog of war, the past present and future of Libyan media, Teddy Roosevelt's reading habits, and musicians fight to regain copyrights. ...more...

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August 19, 2011
Updated: 2011-08-19 21:33:01
Description: The media's coverage of political gaffes, Amazon's foray into publishing, and when authorities restrict access to social media. ...more...

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August 12, 2011
Updated: 2011-08-12 17:54:05
Description: This week, we look into the monolithic impact Google has on our lives for better and for worse. ...more...

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August 5, 2011
Updated: 2011-08-05 15:49:14
Description: A special, live broadcast of On the Media. Brooke, Bob, Ethan Zuckerman and other guests on the question: will the internet deliver us or destroy us? ...more...

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July 29, 2011
Updated: 2011-07-29 15:05:19
Description: Fact checking the debt ceiling showdown, a journalist's analysis of the alleged Oslo gunman's manifesto, literally burying a story in China ...more...

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July 22, 2011
Updated: 2011-07-22 14:58:05
Description: Is the public - and the media - getting bored of the Murdoch News of the World scandal? Were they ever interested to begin with? Plus the history of pie throwing as political statement, the relative ease of hacking a cell phone, and the 100th birthda...more...

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July 15, 2011
Updated: 2011-07-15 20:46:36
Description: This week we explore the 'debt ceiling', internet self-regulation and tabloids - both now and in the 1970's. ...more...

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July 8, 2011
Updated: 2011-07-08 20:30:31
Description: On this week's show it's (nearly) all scandal - News of the World!, Casey Anthony!, the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit and ... scandal magnet Lenny Dysktra. ...more...

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July 1, 2011
Updated: 2011-07-01 16:18:23
Description: An encore broadcast of our one-hour look at the history, the culture and the future of video games.  Whether you know it or not you're likely a gamer and games are creeping into nearly every aspect of life; an hour on how far video games have c...more...

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June 24, 2011
Updated: 2011-06-24 17:56:01
Description: The rules of cyber war, how "conventional wisdom" comes to be, and remembering E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons. Guest hosted by Mike Pesca. ...more...

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June 17, 2011
Updated: 2011-06-17 19:24:21
Description: A hacker's insight into recent hacks; Libya's unrest becomes a civil war in the media; Brooke's journey through the echo chamber debate ...more...

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June 10, 2011
Updated: 2011-06-10 18:00:21
Description: A Texas massacre that wasn't, a visit to internet week and a new movie about the extremes of virtual life. ...more...

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June 3, 2011
Updated: 2011-06-03 18:00:20
Description: Rumors pervade the media, journalists caught in Pakistan information war and tattoo copyrights ...more...

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May 27, 2011
Updated: 2011-05-27 18:00:20
Description: Patriot Act renewal, sex robots disguised as people ...more...

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May 20, 2011
Updated: 2011-05-20 18:01:36
Description: French media reacts to DSK, the Syrian regime's digital dirty tricks ...more...

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May 13, 2011
Updated: 2011-05-13 18:00:20
Description: Data Show. ...more...

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May 6, 2011
Updated: 2011-05-06 18:00:19
Description: Bin Laden exits the scene ...more...

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April 29, 2011
Updated: 2011-04-29 18:01:35
Description: PlayStation's breach, iPhone's privacy issues, WikiLeaks' Guantanamo leak and Obama's birth certificate. ...more...

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April 22, 2011
Updated: 2011-04-22 18:01:35
Description: Copyright trolling, sock puppets and invisible ink ...more...

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April 15, 2011
Updated: 2011-04-15 18:01:35
Description: On the Media reports from Cairo, Egypt! ...more...

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April 8, 2011
Updated: 2011-04-08 18:01:34
Description: For the love of slang, reporting from Libya and defending the First ...more...

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April 1, 2011
Updated: 2011-04-01 18:01:34
Description: The conclusion of our Blow the Whistle investigation of the secret hold that killed the Whistle Blower Protection Act ...more...

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March 25, 2011
Updated: 2011-03-25 18:01:33
Description: Bias and public radio, part 3; how wars get named; pundits fill the information vacuum on Libya ...more...

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March 18, 2011
Updated: 2011-03-18 18:01:33
Description: Investigating whether NPR has a liberal bias and James O'Keefe on James O'Keefe ...more...

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March 11, 2011
Updated: 2011-03-11 18:01:33
Description: NPR under fire ...more...

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March 4, 2011
Updated: 2011-03-04 18:01:32
Description: A hacker anthropologist on the shadowy internet group Anonymous; why there may never be a Canadian Fox News; a prison inmate becomes Bernie Madoff's PR guy ...more...

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February 25, 2011
Updated: 2011-02-25 18:01:31
Description: Inside the Libyan diaspora's resistance movement; cheating Google's algorithm; secrets of "most e-mailed" stories ...more...

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February 18, 2011
Updated: 2011-02-18 18:01:31
Description: A special, live broadcast of On the Media. Brooke, Bob, Ethan Zuckerman and other guests on the question: will the internet deliver us or destroy us? ...more...

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February 11, 2011
Updated: 2011-02-11 18:01:31
Description: Egypt's leading newspaper speaks. Hip Hop's contributes to Middle East protests. And are scandalous stories bad for us? ...more...

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February 4, 2011
Updated: 2011-02-04 18:01:31
Description: Al Jazeera in Cairo. What is the "Arab street" anyway? And an update on our "Blow the Whistle" project. ...more...

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January 28, 2011
Updated: 2011-01-28 18:01:30
Description: Newspaper special: are papers really dead? Can Google bring them back to life? ...more...

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January 21, 2011
Updated: 2011-01-21 18:01:30
Description: Tunisian protests, social media and Al Jazeera; Twitter fights the Justice Department and wins!; NPR's big reporting mistake ...more...

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January 14, 2011
Updated: 2011-01-14 18:01:30
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January 7, 2011
Updated: 2011-01-07 18:01:29
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December 31, 2010
Updated: 2010-12-31 18:01:29
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December 24, 2010
Updated: 2010-12-24 18:01:29
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December 17, 2010
Updated: 2010-12-17 18:01:29
Description: The New York Times is re-reporting a story about a plane crash from fifty years ago. ...more...

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December 10, 2010
Updated: 2010-12-10 18:01:28
Description: A group of hackers known collectively as "Anonymous" have been launching online attacks against the perceived enemies of WikiLeaks ...more...

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December 3, 2010
Updated: 2010-12-03 18:01:28
Description: Bill Keller of the NY Times discusses WikiLeaks, and the Arab world responds to the controversial cable dump. ...more...

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November 26, 2010
Updated: 2010-11-26 18:01:27
Description: The internet is full, know your meme and zero views ...more...

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November 19, 2010
Updated: 2010-11-19 18:01:27
Description: "Don't touch my junk" and blogging the Civil War ...more...

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November 12, 2010
Updated: 2010-11-12 18:01:26
Description: Garry Trudeau on 40 years of Doonesbury ...more...

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November 5, 2010
Updated: 2010-11-05 18:01:26
Description: Taking the public out of public broadcasting! Plus, journalists are people too ...more...

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October 29, 2010
Updated: 2010-10-29 18:01:25
Description: Money, disclosure and messaging in the Midterm elections ...more...

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October 22, 2010
Updated: 2010-10-22 18:01:25
Description: ...more...

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October 15, 2010
Updated: 2010-10-15 18:01:24
Description: People in holes, plus candidates who lie and reporters who recap ...more...

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October 8, 2010
Updated: 2010-10-08 18:01:24
Description: The head of the BBC, warrantless GPS tracking and copyright in the fashion industry ...more...

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October 1, 2010
Updated: 2010-10-01 18:01:24
Description: The Stuxnet worm, adult services and the first televised presidential debate ...more...

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September 24, 2010
Updated: 2010-09-24 18:01:23
Description: Drug warriors target journalists, Congress fights piracy and gossip heads west ...more...

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September 17, 2010
Updated: 2010-09-17 18:01:23
Description: A Tea Party primary, media self-monitoring and Hollywood's accent problem ...more...

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September 10, 2010
Updated: 2010-09-10 18:01:22
Description: Koran burning, laptop searching and broadcast emoting ...more...

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September 3, 2010
Updated: 2010-09-03 18:01:22
Description: Mideast peace talks, counting crowds and the Great Moon Hoax ...more...

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August 27, 2010
Updated: 2010-08-27 18:01:21
Description: Debunking popular myths about President Obama, Kitty Genovese and the Cuban Missile Crisis ...more...

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