The government asked Earl Caldwell to become a spy. He took them to the Supreme Court.

The Reporter Who Said No to the FBI

The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Host Brooke Gladstone examines 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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The contested election of 2000 and the extraordinary legal and PR battle that ensued.

What Bush v. Gore Revealed About Contested Elections

How Biden’s trade policy came to look a lot like Trump’s.

The Story Behind Biden’s New Tariffs

What the focus on violence and chaos obscures; and, a look at how Israeli media are covering the conflict.

What the Media Get Wrong About Campus Protests

Last week, novelist Paul Auster died from complications related to lung cancer. In this conversation from 2021, he discusses a (mostly) forgotten writer who changed literature forever.

Revisiting a Conversation with Paul Auster

Getting to know presidents through memoirs, journalism, and fiction.

The Reporter Who Said No to the FBI

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