On the Media

On the Media

@onthemedia.bsky.social

A weekly radio show and podcast on all things media produced and distributed by WNYC Studios — onthemedia.org Hosted by @brookegladstone.bsky.social & @micahloewinger.bsky.social

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

What's gonna happen with Bluesky y'all?

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CPJ, Free Press lead call for journalist Estefany Rodríguez’s release from ICE detention - Committee to Protect Journalists The Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press led a coalition of more than 40 press freedom, human rights, and media organizations in a joint statement Tuesday calling for the release of journal...

It is outrageous that Nashville Notacias reporter Estefany Rodriguez was detained and taken out of state because of ICE reporting.

We are proud to join 40 other press freedom, civic and media orgs to call for her immediate release.
cpj.org/2026/03/cpj-...

#PressFreedom
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The AI-Powered War Machines Are Here Podcast Episode · On the Media · March 7 · 51m

Trump, Hegseth, Dr. Strangelove, and the Terminator walk into a bar…

Via @onthemedia.bsky.social

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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

This is magnificently contemptuous www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Thank you 🙏

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As the Ellison empire expands and corporate media consolidation accelerates, what’s going to be the next Minot?

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The Ellisons Prepare to Expand Their Media Empire | On the Media | WNYC Studios Media capture, media danger, and media power

Listen to the full episode: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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When a train crashed in Minot, N.D., and a noxious cloud of ammonia gas spread across town, there was no one at the radio stations to sound the alarm and inform residents. "This is just a glaring example of a media system that has no allegiance to local communities,” said @victorpickard.bsky.social.

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U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows

The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

Good for the hed/dek writers at @nytimes.com just now:

Not "appears to contradict" or "is at odds with" or "may give rise to suspicions that."

Flat out: "Contradicts." "Video shows." About the US blowing up a school full of little girls.

And of course, terrible for the world.

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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.

“AI systems that minimize human influence over what kind of weapons we're gonna use, when we will use them, is satisfying the dream of the extremists among the nuclear strategists of the 1950s and ‘60s.”

Catch Brooke’s interview with @sivav.bsky.social:
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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.

There’s been a lot of talk about “democratic backsliding.” But what about “democratic resilience”? w/@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

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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.

“We've had an actual debate for 70 years over when and how to use the most lethal weapons…. Are we in that situation? Do we have an executive we can trust with the future of the world?”
Catch Brooke’s interview with @sivav.bsky.social on AI-powered weapons: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

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A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.

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Evidence Grows That Google's AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry Google's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic.

Welp. The internet had a nice run.

Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out.

"...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."

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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.

A look at the unusual contract battle between the US government and Anthropic, the maker of the AI tools embedded in many of its systems, with @alanrozenshtein.com lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

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The Ellisons Prepare to Expand Their Media Empire | On the Media | WNYC Studios Media capture, media danger, and media power

🎧 Must listen ep of @wnyc.org’s @onthemedia.bsky.social:
➡️ CPJ CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social on the record journalist killings in 2025
➡️ Craig Renaud on his film, “Armed Only With a Camera,” about his brother who was killed reporting on the front lines of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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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.

“It's not impossible to imagine that one of the norms in countries like the United States, where democracy has come under threat by a major political faction, is ping-ponging between authoritarianism and democracy" - @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

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This week on @onthemedia.bsky.social you can hear me discuss horrible things being horrible. Have a great weekend!

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👍🏻 Great episode and a MUST listen about threats to democracy, ethics of AI targeting in Iran, and dangerous future of automated warfare. Fascinating interview with Zack Beauchamp about countries who have experienced democracy backslide and what we can do to protect our own democracy.

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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.

The US military used AI tools for real-time targeting in its strikes on Iran, even as the government feuded with the maker of those tools. Hear more from Brooke’s convos with @sivav.bsky.social and @alanrozenshtein.com: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

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The AI-Powered War Machines Are Here | On the Media | WNYC Studios The US military used AI tools for real-time targeting in its strikes on Iran. On this week’s On the Media, what recent conflicts can tell us about AI-powered weapons and the dangerous...

I might not know what to say about the world right now, but I'm grateful @onthemedia.bsky.social and @brookegladstone.bsky.social know who can speak to the madness. Another excellent episode. Thank you,  Siva Vaidhyanathan, @alanrozenshtein.com, and @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social.

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Really appreciated the opportunity to talk to @brookegladstone.bsky.social @onthemedia.bsky.social about the Anthropic-OpenAI-Pentagon mess. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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📻 Tune into this week’s show, featuring: @sivav.bsky.social, @alanrozenshtein.com, and @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

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Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

lol this absolutely sucks

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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Welcome to Bluesky @doctorow.pluralistic.net !!!

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Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.

The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

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The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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MOSKOWITZ: I want to give you a chance to answer on the record Rep. Kamlager-Dove's question about sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski

NOEM: The tabloids you are quoting are insane

MOSKOWITZ: So it's a no?

NOEM: You say conservative women are stupid or sluts. I am neither.

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