Hosted by veteran journalists Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield, On The Media features a savvy roster of media-makers, observers, the newsworthy and the notable each week.
Commentaries, analyses and reports cover significant media issues of the day, and longer-form investigative documentaries apply a microscope to the media, culture and society.
Topics have included network and international coverage of the 2000 Presidential election; media merger mania; net-slaves - the working stiffs of the internet speak out; coverage of national traumas in news; the politics of nudity; the effect of modern marketing on children; and digital movies.
In addition to receiving critical praise in the local and national media, On The Media won a Silver Medal for Investigative Reporting in the internationally contested New York Festivals Competition 2000 and a special citation from the prestigious Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism.
Whatever your media fix - TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, CDs, films, and on-line media - On The Media covers it.
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