On The Media

Hosted by Bob Garfield and Brook Gladstone, On the Media lifts the veil from the process of "making media," especially news media, because it's through that lens through which we see the world and the world sees us.

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November 20, 2009 (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)

The media's coverage of the President's trip to China; a blow to investigative journalism in China; a play about a Seattle newsroom.

Obama In China (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)

The President returned from his first trip to China on Thursday. The Atlantic’s James Fallows talks about the trip, and the mostly negative U.S. press coverage it received.

Unfinished Business (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)

For over a decade one of the few places to read investigative reporting in China was the bi-weekly business magazine Caijing. That effectively ended last week when Caijing’s editor abruptly resigned along with dozens of the magazine’s top staff. Chinese media analyst Jeremy Goldkorn explains how Caijing broke journalistic ground and what China has likely lost.

Waiting for Info (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)

In 1989, The National Security Archive requested documents from the CIA regarding the Iran-Contra affair. This year, the CIA released them. President Barack Obama promised a new era of transparency and adherence to the Freedom of Information Act, but has he followed through? Yvette Chin, FOIA coordinator for the NSA, tells the story behind the long, long wait for information.

Sixth Sense (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)

Futuristic films like "The Terminator" and "Minority Report" imagine a time in which the virtual world can be projected onto the physical world. This technology, known as augmented reality, will be commercially available in the form of glasses sooner than we think, says Jamais Cascio, of the Institute for the Future. But, he warns, don’t necessarily believe they’ll be rose colored.