this week archive station guide Meet OTM contact us Search
A collection of media tidbits from Mike Pesca      On the Media
is produced by
click here to go to the WNYC home page
 
MORE Features  
Click here to download real player
Download the RealPlayer to hear On The Media
(help with realplayer)
May June July August
May, 2006

May 5, 2006
Colbert goes to Washington, Psychoanalysis and cinema, Health news gets a check-up


May 12, 2006
Watching the government watching us- and American pollsters sell negativity south of the border.


May 19, 2006
Global warming as comedy, fair use is fair, more on phone tracking.


May 26, 2006
2008 presidential candidates and the media who love them, a look back at Hustler magazine and must-watch-television … for infants.


June, 2006

June 2, 2006
Chaos in the TV business, early American propagandists, a supreme blow to whistleblowers


June 9, 2006
Al-Zarqawi as memento mori, and why baseball writers aren’t juiced about steroids.


June 16, 2006
How the world covers the World Cup, every month is awareness month, 19,000 new sources for journalists


June 23, 2006
Cut and Run wins the language debate, freedom in the Saudi Press, the poetry of Michael Gerson June 30, 2006
President Bush’s speech outlining the administration’s shift in Middle East policy drew big headlines across the world this week.

July, 2006

July 7, 2006
Mexican media grapple with a contested election, and the Freedom of Information Act turns 40.


July 14, 2005
Mid East press round-up, TV sparks change in Pakistan, The ribald father of civil liberties.


July 21, 2006
Covering the Middle East, from NY to Jakarta. Stem cell mixed messages. Tabloid wars.


July 28, 2006
The psychology of the partisan news consumer, blackmailer journalists, and how to interview a celebrity.

August 2006

August 4, 2006
Perilous times for a wartime president, porn, baseball announcers, the atomic bomb and bombshells.


August 11, 2006
What the Connecticut primary means about Internet organizing, and conspiracy theorizing from Mexico City to Ground Zero.


August 18, 2006
Writing the first draft of the Lebanon war, and getting the story out of – and into – Cuba.


August 25, 2006
The loneliest Iranian correspondent, the child porn beat, poor marks for economic columnists.
More Archives
this week archive station guide Meet OTM contact us Search