#onthemedia — Public Fediverse posts

@alex And of course there were earlier examples of audio recordings being distributed, often on phonograph records, later cassette tapes.

Arguably one of the ur-fathers of podcasting was Ruhollah Mostafavi Khomeini, who recorded and distributed audiocassettes from France prior to the Iranian Revolution.

Mentioned in his Wikipedia bio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini#Pre-revolutionary_political_activity

Also covered in 2021 by #OnTheMedia: "The Tapes That Sparked the Iranian Revolution" https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/tapes-sparked-iranian-revolution-on-the-media.

@loke

Perfectly tailgating on #OnTheMedia this week’s #revealnews dives into the Trump’s family separation horrors leaving kids to fend for themselves as their parents are put into detention camps.

https://revealnews.org/podcast/ice-immigration-family-separation-parents-perez-florida/

This audience is the perfect audience for Doctorow, one which picks up on and responds to his every little wink ... and his way of doing a panel discussion involves a lot of winking.

WNYC On the Media: "Ensh*ttification, Live! Micah and Cory Doctorow in Conversation" (audio, 38 min)

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

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#enshittification #wnyc #OnTheMedia
#CoryDoctorow #MicahLoewinger

This is wonderful. Celebrate the small things : )

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/grab-your-tin-foil-hat-for-the-onions-takeover-of-infowars

#theonion #infowars #onthemedia #podcast

[PODCAST] Pete Hegseth is Praying for a Holy War by #OnTheMedia

https://pca.st/episode/b0b9362d-a366-4379-852a-172f6bc284aa

#ConCW #genocide #ChristianNationalism #Christian #Christianity

#OnTheMedia from #WNYC digs into how media capture is shaping big outlets, then looks at what’s lost as foreign bureaus shut down while Israeli forces keep killing journalists in Gaza. It ends with the story of Brent Renaud, American reporter killed in Russia’s war on Ukraine. #Media #Journalism #Gaza #Ukraine #PressFreedom #CNN
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-ellisons-prepare-to-expand-their-media-empire#MediaCapture

This On the Media episode from earlier this month examines AI’s infrastructural and epistemic risks. It explores how data centers strain energy systems, how deepfakes destabilize trust, and how “AI slop” reshapes information ecosystems. Situates AI within political and cultural contexts. #AI #DeepFakes #DataCenters #TechPolicy #OnTheMedia #ArtificialIntelligence #slop https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/deep-fakes-data-centers-and-ai-slop--are-we-cooked

@timbray #OnTheMedia's classic 2006 episode, "Prime Number", addresses this point beautifully, mostly related to news and media, though #Wikipedia and #Wikipedians should take note.

OTM cites #CarlBialik, then writing for the WSJ (he's since worked at FiveThirtyEight and is now at Yelp ... per Wikipedia):

An interesting phenomenon of these numbers is that they'll often be cited to an agency or some government body, and then a study will pick it up, and then the press will repeat it from that study. And then once it appears in the press, public officials will repeat it again, and now it's become an official number.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/128722-prime-number/ (audio and transcript).

#OnTheMedia ‘s Mid-week podcast had a great set of stories about how Doge is not Dead. The oligarch’s media in the #US #USPol want you to believe it is, so they are spinning tons of stories about how Doge is Dead. The real story is they have worked their way into positions in a lot of government agencies, so they can destroy it from the inside, while monetizing your information.

📰 O Observador publicou um excerto do livro "Histórias da PIDE", que foi apresentado ontem. Nesta história, José Pedro Castanheira relata a relação de Francisco Craveiro Lopes com a #PIDE, que o teve sob vigilância devido a uma relação extra-conjungal.

👉 https://observador.pt/especiais/uma-desonra-vergonhosa-mesquinha-e-inqualificavel-o-romance-de-craveiro-lopes-e-a-chantagem-da-pide/

#Histodons #MastoLivros #EstadoNovo #Salazar #PoliticalPolice #Ditadura #Dictatorship #HistóriaDePortugal #PortugueseHistory #CraveiroLopes #OnTheMedia #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistóriaNaEsferaPública

📰 O número 47 do jornal MAPA inclui uma entrevista de três páginas à equipa do projecto #FIREUSES — "Paisagens de Fogo", na qual falaram sobre mega-incêndios, o fogo como sujeito político, os eucaliptos, a gestão da paisagem em Portugal, entre outros temas.

Já nas bancas!

#Histodons #EnvironmentalHistory #RuralHistory #SocialHistory #OnTheMedia #History #Sociology #Wildfires #ForestFires #IncêndiosEmPortugal #FogosPT #FogosFlorestais #HistóriaAmbiental #HistóriaAgrária #HistóriaSocial

Another really great #onthemedia
on why we should stop giving #Trump more credit or power than he deserves by being “afraid” of him…

(Personally been saying this forever: stop using words like “terrifying” and keep using words like “illegal”)

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/jamelle-bouie-says-your-fear-of-trump-isnt-helping-plus-humphrey-bogarts-betrayal

Phew: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/free-speech-for-me-but-not-for-thee-plus-librarians-under-siege #onthemedia

I am unreasonably anxious about there not being a new episode of On The Media out on their website or podcast feed yet today. Wouldn’t blame them if they just gave up after this week, but still, fingers crossed. #onthemedia

⏱️ 90 segundos para o Anderson Antunes nos contar (quase) tudo sobre o projecto KNOW.AFRICA, cuja equipa está a estudar o papel dos habitantes e agentes locais no conhecimento adquirido em expedições científicas portuguesas a África no século XIX.

https://www.90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-2069-anderson-antunes/

#Histodons #HistoryOfScience #ColonialHistory #OnTheMedia #HistoryInThePublicSphere #SciComm #HistóriaDaCiência #HistóriaColonial #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #ExpediçõesCientíficas #África

Trumps Gestapo tactics have nothing to do with Crime - Stop framing it that way - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?i=1000725226320 Great reporting by the #OnTheMedia team.

On the Media explores the power of shortwave radio and press freedom

https://swling.com/blog/2025/08/on-the-media-explores-the-power-of-shortwave-radio-and-press-freedom/

#BayFang #KatieThornton #MicahLoewinger #OnTheMedia #RadioLiberty #RFA #RFE #ShortwaveRadio #WhyShortwave

Ensh*ttification, Live! Micah and Cory Doctorow in Conversation | #OnTheMedia | WNYC Studios https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/enshttification-live-micah-and-cory-doctorow-in-conversation

I'm a little behind in my podcasts, but #EnShittification is a favorite topic here, so I thought I'd share 😁

Cc: @pluralistic

[PODCAST] Silicon Valley's Rightwing Roots. Plus, the CEO of Bluesky Reimagines Social Media by #OnTheMedia
https://pca.st/episode/970cc58d-768d-4008-8c61-fa1eddc13c8b

#edtechSR #edtech #MediaLit #SocialMedia #BlueSky #ConCW #rightwing #politics #polarization #feminism #GeorgeGilder

@PaulAnomaly

#OnTheMedia. I'll look that up. Thanks

#ACAB

#OnTheMedia S2 THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 4: Wall St. Wants Your Airwaves
https://podcastaddict.com/on-the-media/episode/199358886

#OnTheMedia S2 THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 3: World's Last Chance Radio
https://podcastaddict.com/on-the-media/episode/198888640

THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 2: You Must Form Your Militia Movements #OnTheMedia
https://podcastaddict.com/on-the-media/episode/198392389

Katie Thornton’s New Series Investigates the Influence of Shortwave Radio

https://swling.com/blog/2025/05/katie-thorntons-new-series-investigates-the-influence-of-shortwave-radio/

#DavidGoren #KatieThornton #OnTheMedia #OnTheShortwaves #TheDividedDial

THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 1: Fishing In The Night #OnTheMedia
https://podcastaddict.com/on-the-media/episode/197898118

@davidgerard I've got to take exception to one statement you make:

AI is the last game in the casino.

It may be the last game of which we're presently aware. But I'm reasonably certain another grift will come along.

That's a minor nit, and this is good analysis.

NB: WNYC's On the Media interviewed Ed Zitron this past January. He makes a similar case to yours:

Silicon Valley over the years has leaned towards just growth ideas. What will grow, what can we sell more of? Except, they've chased out all the real innovators. To your original question, they didn't know what they were going to do. They thought that ChatGPT would magically become profitable. When that didn't work, they went, "Well, what if we made it more powerful and bigger? We can get more funding that way," so they did that.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/brooke-talks-ai-with-ed-zitron (transcript available).

@peter

#PivotToAI #ai #EdZitron #OnTheMedia #DavidGerard

The Coding Language Caught in DOGE's Crosshairs

@clive speaks to Brooke Gladstone about #COBOL and manages to touch upon the gendered roles of coding and tag #GraceHopper and #FlowMatic on his way to explaining why “modernizing” old code on this scale cannot be done in a few months, why old code works well, and why #AI won’t necessarily help them do it well. #OnTheMedia

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-coding-language-caught-in-doges-crosshairs

This #OnTheMedia episode about previous efforts at American expansionism taught me SO MUCH #USHistory that my high-school class conveniently omitted. It's just one jaw-dropping moment after another, after another. Ironically it aired just prior to this week's bonkers MAL "press conference", and puts this moment in context.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/americas-empire-state-of-mind

Stellar episode of #onthemedia
The third segment with @Rushkoff is 🔥

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?i=1000677963564

Recommendation: listen to the ever insightful M. Gessen's interview on this weekend's #onthemedia!

They have my favorite take (so far) on how/why dems lost this election, and they showed me how narrow minded I was pre-election in my view of #trumpism.

Gessen [40:08]: "What [people who appear to be voting against their own self interest] are saying when they vote for Trump. . .is that they're so deeply interested in letting the government know that they feel unseen, unheard, not taken care of, generally failed by the system, they will vote for someone who may not create policies that will benefit them just to send this message"

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-manosphere-celebrates-a-win-plus-m-gessen-on-how-to-survive-an-autocracy

Democracy Now! could use whatever you used to pay the #WashingtonPost and #LATimes. And don't forget #NPR and #OnTheMedia.

https://www.democracynow.org/

This is a must-listen. #OnTheMedia #WNYC

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?i=1000674495928

@guardian

Also note excellent discussion of how it is hard to report on extreme heat and why it doesn't get the attention it merits.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/its-getting-hot-in-here

#NPR #OnTheMedia #Journalism