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
After 45 years as a New York City news anchor, Kaity Tong will retire this month. In a business that often kicks women to the curb decades before their male counterparts, Tong leaves the air at nearly 80 years old. And New York will miss her. www.newsday.com/entertainmen... #TVSky #NYC
New York TV anchor Kaity Tong announces retirement
New York TV icon Kaity Tong, known for her mentorship and influence, retires from WPIX after a remarkable 34-year career.
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Data centers have become one of the U.S.'s most potent political flashpoints, uniting coalitions on the left and right like few issues do. We sent @mollytaft.com on a journey into the data center resistance. The Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders made appearances along the way:
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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The Trump administration tried to use visa denials and deportation to silence researchers who study social media. A court said no. Sunday Tagliasacchi and Elisabeth Snyder, former legal externs at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, break down the CITR v. Rubio ruling.
Trump Cannot Use Immigration Law to Silence Technology Researchers
Sunday Tagliasacchi and Elisabeth Snyder detail an initial court victory for the Coalition for Independent Technology Research in CITR v. Rubio.
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Unpacking the hype and hysteria around AI (and how not to become a reverse centaur) w/@doctorow.pluralistic.net lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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.
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“There is nothing about the technology of AI that determines how it must be used. We can choose...depending on our needs and proclivities. We don’t have to let billionaires tell us how it must be used.” – @doctorow.pluralistic.net lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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.
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You have to listen to Brooke’s interview with @doctorow.pluralistic.net on the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social. This is one of our best episodes in a while. Come for the incisive AI analysis. Stay for the heart and humor!
F@#$ the AI Overlords | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The race to build the most advanced artificial intelligence continues to dominate the headlines. On this week’s On the Media, who does this new technology actually serve? Plus, how ev...
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Remember the famous “I Love Lucy” episode where Lucy and Ethel are at a chocolate factory, wrapping bonbons on a conveyor belt? As the belt accelerates, Lucy and Ethel have to work at superhuman speed. @doctorow.pluralistic.net has a name for them: reverse centaurs. lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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.
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To say I’m a fan of @onthemedia.bsky.social is a gross understatement. But even I heard this week’s episode and thought, “Ohmygawd, this show is unmatched.” Thank you for the amazing interview with @doctorow.pluralistic.net, @brookegladstone.bsky.social and team. pca.st/episode/caf8...
F@#$ the AI Overlords
The race to build the most advanced artificial intelligence continues to dominate the headlines. On this week’s On the Media, who does this new technology actually serve? Plus, how even critical…
pca.st
“When you repeat the outlandish claims made by tech barons, but put at the end of it, ‘And that's bad,’ in brackets. You're just helping them sell.” – @doctorow.pluralistic.net lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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.
lnk.to
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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This is such a bald-faced that all of Fernando Burgos’s pants must’ve turned to ash by now. When I said in my @onthemedia.bsky.social interview that the Trump admin is pretending they don’t know what’s happening, this is what I’m talking about.
“The most important thing about a technology isn't what it does, it's who it does it for and who it does it to.” – @doctorow.pluralistic.net lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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.
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“We have made a machine where we throw leaves in the air, and they come down in a plausible sentence. That is, from a computer science perspective, super interesting. From a literary perspective, it doesn't mean a goddamn thing.” – @doctorow.pluralistic.net lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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.
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Once again OTM serves up another banger asking the real questions about who AI serves (the bosses) and who it does not (those of us whose bosses are duped into bringing it on so they can fire everyone but a fall-guy to take the blame when it inevitably fails).
On the Media@onthemedia.bsky.social · 5d ago📻 Show’s up! Featuring the one and only @doctorow.pluralistic.net: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
Another OTM banger. AI is on all our minds. Doctorow, possibly more than anyone else, has a grip, and even better, can articulate problems AND solutions.
On the Media@onthemedia.bsky.social · 5d ago📻 Show’s up! Featuring the one and only @doctorow.pluralistic.net: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
This is, hands down, the best thing you can listen to about AI. Call your Senators and Congressperson, insist that a high-level staffer listen, and demand policy and regulation that follows Doctorow's diagnosis and perspective.
Did you get a suspicious email from us asking you for money to be a guest on our show? @micahloewinger.bsky.social breaks down why legitimate journalists would never do this.
Google kills AlphaFold. So much for AI curing cancer
YouTube video by Pivot to AI
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2mo agoIf you're anti AI & making claims that some of the models under the AI umbrella are ok because they seem to be serving scientific goals, then you fell for a type of hype. One from the 2010s; stats models aren't blessed by their use in science and they can erode our thinking. bsky.app/profile/oliv...
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Well this is true I suppose. trump can’t be bought; he is subscription based. You have to keep bribing him forever www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
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I interviewed independent climate reporter and notable mayo-hater @kendrawrites.com for recommendations about how journalists should cover wildfires and smoke: emergencymode.news/no-longer-ni...
No Longer Niche: How Journalists Cover Wildfires and Smoke · Emergency Mode for News
As wildfires and smoke become more frequent and widespread due to climate change, news coverage needs to be more creative, comprehensive, and anticipatory.
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Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
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just a devastating dispatch from @nysfocus.com about the acceleration of kids having to argue for asylum alone, without an attorney, and then most of them getting deported nysfocus.com/2026/07/31/t...
NY Lawyers Fear Trump Blitz Will Speed Up Child Deportations
The Trump administration is accelerating asylum proceedings as legal aid funding expires, leaving immigrant children less time to prepare.
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Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami on new charges of rape, trafficking, and child pornography. Here's my @newyorker.com investigation into how they built a vast empire of sexual exploitation in plain sight. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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