@jenmunson.bsky.social
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There is a world in which AI could be used to actually improve our lives rather than make everything worse, but it will take drastically rethinking the current AI rollout — and empowering workers, @doctorow.pluralistic.net said.
September 4, 2026 at 6:09 PM
There is a world in which AI could be used to actually improve our lives rather than make everything worse, but it will take drastically rethinking the current AI rollout — and empowering workers, @doctorow.pluralistic.net said.
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The free press in Iran is practically nonexistent thanks to government repression. A Saudi-funded media outlet has filled the void with a popular right-wing, anti-regime, pro-war tv channel: on-the-media.visitlink.me/XCTv60
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.
on-the-media.visitlink.me
August 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The free press in Iran is practically nonexistent thanks to government repression. A Saudi-funded media outlet has filled the void with a popular right-wing, anti-regime, pro-war tv channel: on-the-media.visitlink.me/XCTv60
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President Trump’s poll numbers are very bad, particularly on the economy and immigration. @gelliottmorris.com explains why polls, though imperfect at predicting election outcomes, are a helpful tool for identifying policies that Americans don’t want:
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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.
lnk.to
August 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM
President Trump’s poll numbers are very bad, particularly on the economy and immigration. @gelliottmorris.com explains why polls, though imperfect at predicting election outcomes, are a helpful tool for identifying policies that Americans don’t want:
lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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This week, the FCC decided to remove its cap on local TV ownership. Another sign that the once more reserved agency has altered its aims–thanks, in large part, to its chairman on-the-media.visitlink.me/c5rpTT
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.
on-the-media.visitlink.me
August 9, 2026 at 9:00 PM
This week, the FCC decided to remove its cap on local TV ownership. Another sign that the once more reserved agency has altered its aims–thanks, in large part, to its chairman on-the-media.visitlink.me/c5rpTT
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The Federal Communications Commission has transformed from a sleepy agency to a headline regular. Hear about the lawyer who made it happen w/@nancyscola.bsky.social on-the-media.visitlink.me/ONKSZr
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.
on-the-media.visitlink.me
August 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The Federal Communications Commission has transformed from a sleepy agency to a headline regular. Hear about the lawyer who made it happen w/@nancyscola.bsky.social on-the-media.visitlink.me/ONKSZr
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Professor Nahid Siamdoust pulls back the curtain on the worldwide network of actors trying to shape public opinion on Iran, including an Albania-based Islamist-Marxist group that has successfully planted news articles on mainstream U.S. outlets: on-the-media.visitlink.me/lwlNAK
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.
on-the-media.visitlink.me
August 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Professor Nahid Siamdoust pulls back the curtain on the worldwide network of actors trying to shape public opinion on Iran, including an Albania-based Islamist-Marxist group that has successfully planted news articles on mainstream U.S. outlets: on-the-media.visitlink.me/lwlNAK
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President Trump’s poll numbers are underwater in around 40 states, including every swing state. @gelliottmorris.com breaks down what these numbers could mean for the midterm elections:
on-the-media.visitlink.me/-Fa4xX
on-the-media.visitlink.me/-Fa4xX
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.
on-the-media.visitlink.me
August 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
President Trump’s poll numbers are underwater in around 40 states, including every swing state. @gelliottmorris.com breaks down what these numbers could mean for the midterm elections:
on-the-media.visitlink.me/-Fa4xX
on-the-media.visitlink.me/-Fa4xX
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In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
@annamerlan.bsky.social sat down with the famed writer to discuss "Cyberselfish," her book that began as an essay that ran in this magazine.
@annamerlan.bsky.social sat down with the famed writer to discuss "Cyberselfish," her book that began as an essay that ran in this magazine.
A tech prophet finally gets her second coming
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
www.motherjones.com
August 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
@annamerlan.bsky.social sat down with the famed writer to discuss "Cyberselfish," her book that began as an essay that ran in this magazine.
@annamerlan.bsky.social sat down with the famed writer to discuss "Cyberselfish," her book that began as an essay that ran in this magazine.
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One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things (showing that different, seemingly unrelated ideas are part of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving paradoxes by demonstrating that what appears like a contradictory thing is different things, lumped together).
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August 12, 2026 at 9:51 AM
One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things (showing that different, seemingly unrelated ideas are part of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving paradoxes by demonstrating that what appears like a contradictory thing is different things, lumped together).
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Imagine sitting on a plane for hours on end. Your ankles are shackled together — your wrists shackled to a waist chain. You can't leave your seat for any reason, even to use the bathroom. It may sound extreme, but according to @gillianbrockell.com, this is what many people experience on ICE flights.
August 7, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Imagine sitting on a plane for hours on end. Your ankles are shackled together — your wrists shackled to a waist chain. You can't leave your seat for any reason, even to use the bathroom. It may sound extreme, but according to @gillianbrockell.com, this is what many people experience on ICE flights.
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Hamilton is the least experienced FEMA administrator since Hurricane Katrina. Not a single senator asked a question about his qualifications for the job during his hearing.
Senate confirms Hamilton to lead FEMA and clears more than 70 other Trump nominees
The Senate has confirmed Cameron Hamilton as head of the embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency.
apnews.com
August 8, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Hamilton is the least experienced FEMA administrator since Hurricane Katrina. Not a single senator asked a question about his qualifications for the job during his hearing.
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You have to listen to Brooke’s interview with @doctorow.pluralistic.net on the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social. This is one of our best episodes in a while. Come for the incisive AI analysis. Stay for the heart and humor!
F@#$ the AI Overlords | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The race to build the most advanced artificial intelligence continues to dominate the headlines. On this week’s On the Media, who does this new technology actually serve? Plus, how ev...
www.wnycstudios.org
August 2, 2026 at 11:15 PM
You have to listen to Brooke’s interview with @doctorow.pluralistic.net on the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social. This is one of our best episodes in a while. Come for the incisive AI analysis. Stay for the heart and humor!
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Check the email address, people.
Did you get a suspicious email from us asking you for money to be a guest on our show? @micahloewinger.bsky.social breaks down why legitimate journalists would never do this.
July 31, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Check the email address, people.
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Once again OTM serves up another banger asking the real questions about who AI serves (the bosses) and who it does not (those of us whose bosses are duped into bringing it on so they can fire everyone but a fall-guy to take the blame when it inevitably fails).
📻 Show’s up! Featuring the one and only @doctorow.pluralistic.net: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
August 1, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Once again OTM serves up another banger asking the real questions about who AI serves (the bosses) and who it does not (those of us whose bosses are duped into bringing it on so they can fire everyone but a fall-guy to take the blame when it inevitably fails).
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“We have made a machine where we throw leaves in the air, and they come down in a plausible sentence. That is, from a computer science perspective, super interesting. From a literary perspective, it doesn't mean a goddamn thing.” – @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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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.
lnk.to
August 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM
“We have made a machine where we throw leaves in the air, and they come down in a plausible sentence. That is, from a computer science perspective, super interesting. From a literary perspective, it doesn't mean a goddamn thing.” – @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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Everything is now metrics, and we can't stop counting them and tracking them, but what do we lose out on when we become obsessed with numbers? @micahloewinger.bsky.social spoke with philosopher @add-hawk.bsky.social about the nuances we miss when we focus solely on screen time.
July 9, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Everything is now metrics, and we can't stop counting them and tracking them, but what do we lose out on when we become obsessed with numbers? @micahloewinger.bsky.social spoke with philosopher @add-hawk.bsky.social about the nuances we miss when we focus solely on screen time.
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Listen to the full interview: wnyc.org/browse/shows...
The Fantasy of America at 250 | WNYC
Plus, life sentences for zine-makers in Texas.
wnyc.org
July 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Listen to the full interview: wnyc.org/browse/shows...
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July 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Really enjoyed this conversation…
"We need to get rid of this talk that we're somehow this exceptional nation chosen by God,” @esglaude.bsky.social told @brookegladstone.bsky.social. “We need to grow up. We can't grow up if you don't admit who and what you are.”
July 3, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Really enjoyed this conversation…
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ICYMI, a very timely episode:
📻 Show’s up! Featuring @davidgilbert.bsky.social, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social, Maria Kuznetsova, and Dan Storyev: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
June 15, 2026 at 1:57 PM
ICYMI, a very timely episode:
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Hey NYC @onthemedia.bsky.social listeners! We're doing a live event next Wednesday 6/24 at WNYC to discuss the history of FEMA, the making of our series, and what's happening to the agency now. Brooke and I would love to see you there :)
On the Media Presents American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA | WNYC
Join On the Media’s Micah Loewinger and Eloise Blondiau in conversation with reporter Nancy Solomon for a deep dive into their reporting for OTM’s latest series - American Emergency: The Movement to K...
wnyc.org
June 15, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Hey NYC @onthemedia.bsky.social listeners! We're doing a live event next Wednesday 6/24 at WNYC to discuss the history of FEMA, the making of our series, and what's happening to the agency now. Brooke and I would love to see you there :)
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So proud that this is finally out in the world, and that I got to work so closely with @micahloewinger.bsky.social on this project. We learned so much about how the country got here, and about the agency that's meant to help us when the unthinkable happens. Listen!!! 🎧
For 10 months, I’ve been working on a 4-part @onthemedia.bsky.social investigation into FEMA, one of America’s least favorite agencies: why MAGA nearly killed it and how we got here. The first episode just dropped. We’re super proud of it. Hope you’ll listen:
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
May 4, 2026 at 3:21 PM
So proud that this is finally out in the world, and that I got to work so closely with @micahloewinger.bsky.social on this project. We learned so much about how the country got here, and about the agency that's meant to help us when the unthinkable happens. Listen!!! 🎧
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I didn’t know that I needed a Slow Burn for FEMA but @onthemedia.bsky.social has successfully built the case www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
On the Media | American Emergency: the Movement to Kill FEMA | WNYC Studios
On the Media is a weekly show that uses the media as a lens to understand our world.
www.wnycstudios.org
May 11, 2026 at 12:05 AM
I didn’t know that I needed a Slow Burn for FEMA but @onthemedia.bsky.social has successfully built the case www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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We traveled to North Carolina for this episode of American Emergency to understand how MAGA's lies about FEMA and Hurricane Helene played out on the ground. This one features militia threats, media confusion, cold war conspiracy theories, and a harrowing flood rescue. It's a great listen:
📻 Show’s up! Insight from @gelliottmorris.com and the latest installment of American Emergency lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
May 16, 2026 at 1:43 PM
We traveled to North Carolina for this episode of American Emergency to understand how MAGA's lies about FEMA and Hurricane Helene played out on the ground. This one features militia threats, media confusion, cold war conspiracy theories, and a harrowing flood rescue. It's a great listen:
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In the latest ep of our miniseries American Emergency, @micahloewinger.bsky.social on why old rumors of “FEMA camps” resurfaced during Hurricane Helene: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
May 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
In the latest ep of our miniseries American Emergency, @micahloewinger.bsky.social on why old rumors of “FEMA camps” resurfaced during Hurricane Helene: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...