The staff of OTM choose a few of our favorite things.  Please, please leave us comments below and enjoy.

Brooke Gladstone and producer Sarah Abdurrahman are in Mexico and today Brooke took some time out from recording next week's show to speak with WNYC's Brian Lehrer.  Listen to a preview of what Brooke and OTM will be exploring next week on the show.

The staff of On the Media choose a few of our favorite things. Please, please leave us comments below and enjoy.

The staff of On the Media choose a few of our favorite things. Please, please leave us comments below and enjoy.

The OTM staff choose a few of our favorite things.  Please, please leave us comments below and enjoy.

New data radically revises what we know about our 'secret' war in Cambodia.

A new documentary ‘Under African Skies’ is out that revisits Paul Simon’s 1986 album Graceland.  The film (which I haven’t seen) reunites Simon with some of the contributing musicians and wades back into the political controversy surrounding the recording of the album, its runaway success and the subsequent tour. 

The OTM staff choose a few of our favorite things.  Please, please leave us comments below and enjoy.

The staff of OTM choose a few of our favorite things.  Please leave us comments below and enjoy.

The staff of OTM choose a few of our favorite things.  Please leave us comments below and enjoy.

The staff of OTM again pick a few of our favorite things.  Please leave us comments below and enjoy.

The staff of OTM again choose a few of our favorite things.  Please leave us comments below and enjoy.

The staff of OTM again choose a few of our favorite things.  Please leave us comments below and enjoy.

The staff of OTM choose a few of our favorite things.  Please leave us comments below and enjoy.

The staff of OTM pick a few of our favorite things.  Please leave us comments below and enjoy.

In the past, OTM has looked at the myriad ways that local TV news bend and finesse the ethical standards that most journalism outlets try to uphold.  We’ve looked at health reporting, how local news cover local politicians (or don't) and video news releases – advertising in news clothing.  Still, nothing quite prepared us for this. 

The staff of OTM choose a few of our favorite things.  Please leave us comments below and enjoy!

It's time again for a few of our favorite things. Please leave us comments below and enjoy.

It's time for a few of our favorite things.  Please leave us comments below and enjoy.

Barney Rosset died yesterday.  Rosset never met a fight he didn’t like and his longest, most protracted fight was over freedom of speech in the U.S. and what he could lawfully publish.  Starting in the early 1960’s, with Grove Press, Rossett deliberately set out to test the limits of U.S. obscenity laws, first with D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly’s Lover and then with Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. Winning the right to publish and distribute both he went on to introduce Americans to a whole new generation of writers and filmmakers – Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco, William Burroughs, Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Allen Ginsberg and Frederick Wiseman.  Brooke spoke with Rosset in 2008 about his life and love of literature.