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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Lessons From Hungary’s Democratic Backsliding. Plus, What Makes a Resistance Movement Successful?

President Donald Trump’s countless executive orders and mounting deportations are testing America’s democratic institutions. On this week’s On the Media, what we can learn from Hungary’s recent backslide into autocracy. Plus, why resistance movements throughout history have succeeded with 3.5 percent of the population, or less, behind them. [01:36] Host Micah Loewinger speaks with Andrew Marantz , a staff writer at The New Yorker, about his recent piece, “Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?” and ...

Jun 06, 2025•51 min

Ensh*ttification, Live! Micah and Cory Doctorow in Conversation

This past weekend, OTM co-host Micah Loewinger went to Seattle to sit down with an all-time favourite guest of the show: tech activist and writer Cory Doctorow. We recorded the following conversation in front of a live audience at the Cascade PBS Ideas festival. The topic was “Enshittification” – Cory’s theory of how everything on the internet got worse. We first discussed this idea on the show a couple years ago – and this was an opportunity to talk about what enshittification looks like right ...

Jun 04, 2025•38 min

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