On The Media from NPR/WNYC
In an era of information overload, On the Media helps you make sense of it all. A weekly program from National Public Radio and WNYC, New York Public Radio. Includes MP3 Podcast enclosure.
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* Podcast Extra: Teens on Tunes * (On The Media: Friday, 23 October 2009)
A recent Pew Internet survey found that three out of every four teenagers who download music agree with the statement, "file-sharing is so easy to do, it's unrealistic to expect people not to do it." We spent some time this week talking with high school students in Manhattan to find out what albums …
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Charting the Charts (On The Media: Friday, 23 October 2009)
The music charts have traditionally relied on album sales and radio plays to rank songs and albums. So what do the charts mean today when there are so many other ways to listen to music? OTM producer Mark Phillips reports that charts as well as the very notion of popularity are changing.
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"Why I'm not Afraid to Take your Money" (On The Media: Friday, 23 October 2009)
A frequent refrain in the music industry is that the future is not about selling CDs, but about creating relationship between musicians and fans. If it's true, musician Amanda Palmer is a good case study. One half of the band The Dresden Dolls, she explains that she raised $19,000 from her fans on T …
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October 16, 2009 (On The Media: Friday, 16 October 2009)
The media's renewed focus on the war in Afghanistan; The White House's war of words with Fox News; researchers using video games to study human nature
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The Curse of the Mogul (On The Media: Friday, 16 October 2009)
Ava Seave, co-author of the new book “The Curse of the Mogul,” says that the age of the media mogul is ending. She explains why, and theorizes about what might take its place.
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The One Percent War (On The Media: Friday, 16 October 2009)
That the war in Afghanistan is getting attention at all right now from the media is downright surprising. Forgotten, undercovered and just plain ignored, coverage of the war there filled only about one percent of the news hole in 2008. But, as PEJ associate director Mark Jurkowitz explains, there’s …
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Book Club (On The Media: Friday, 16 October 2009)
Two books about the Vietnam War are reportedly shaping the policy debate about Afghanistan. One is circulating among military circles and the other is being passed around the White House. All this reading is making The New Yorker's George Packer a bit nervous. He explains why.
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Update (On The Media: Friday, 16 October 2009)
The rules governing what embedded photojournalists in Eastern Afghanistan can photograph have changed.
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Obama to FOX: You’re GOP (On The Media: Friday, 16 October 2009)
Last Sunday, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, appearing on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” called the Fox News Channel “the communications arm of the Republican Party.” “Reliable Sources” host Howard Kurtz says the Obama Administration is picking the wrong fight.
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Off Target (On The Media: Friday, 16 October 2009)
Ever feel like online advertisers know you a little too well? If so, you're not alone. UPenn Professor Joseph Turow lead author of a new study on behavioral advertising, says that two-thirds of people object to targeted ads and the online tracking that marketers do to produce them.
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MOGULS (On The Media: Friday, 16 October 2009)
Ava Seave, co-author of the new book “The Curse of the Mogul,” says that the age of the media mogul is ending. She explains why, and theorizes about what might take its place.
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Game Theory (On The Media: Friday, 16 October 2009)
Massively multiplayer online games store reams of data about avatars’ every transaction, and it turns out that this information can serve as a model for real-world concepts, such as economics and epidemiology. Researcher Dmitri Williams has been studying EverQuest II and says the information he gets …
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Hard Times (On The Media: Friday, 16 October 2009)
Many people go to the movies to escape, and one could certainly understand wanting to get away from the Great Depression for an hour or two. But Morris Dickstein, author of Dancing in the Dark, says filmgoers in the 1930s were hardly watching escapist diversions. The films reflected and explored the …
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October 9, 2009 (On The Media: Friday, 09 October 2009)
Vaccine scares and the media; an NHL team hires its own reporter; people are being too nice on the net
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Taking Our Medicine (On The Media: Friday, 09 October 2009)
As people get the H1N1 vaccine, there will inevitably be cases of seizures, heart attacks, strokes and miscarriages -- all unrelated to the vaccine itself. Centers for Disease Control media relations director Glen Nowak says his agency is reminding reporters about the difference between correlation …
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Shot of Fear (On The Media: Friday, 09 October 2009)
A 14-year-old British girl named Natalie Morton died last week after receiving a vaccine for cervical cancer. She died of a tumor near her heart but the media coverage stoked the nation's fear of vaccines. Physician and Guardian columnist Ben Goldacre says the media often exacerbate the public …
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Recurrent Fever (On The Media: Friday, 09 October 2009)
In 1976, President Gerald Ford authorized the National Influenza Immunization Program to inoculate every American against an impending swine flu epidemic. But despite government predictions of one million dead, a single confirmed fatality was recorded by the end of the year. In May, Bob spoke with s …
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Direct to Consumer Science (On The Media: Friday, 09 October 2009)
Science departments at newspapers everywhere are shrinking. One outlet that aims to help fill the coverage gap is Futurity.org, a new website that lets scientists publish their findings directly to the public. Michael Schoenfeld, Futurity’s co-founder, explains the site’s mission.
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Making the Team (On The Media: Friday, 09 October 2009)
The NHL's Los Angeles Kings have decided to take their media destiny into their own hands –- hiring veteran sports reporter Rich Hammond who, until recently, covered the Kings for the L.A. Daily News. That’s right, Hammond will now be a full-time Kings reporter whose stories will appear on the Kings …
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You Decide, We Report (On The Media: Friday, 09 October 2009)
Google recently released a video explaining how it ranks news stories. Brent Payne, director of search engine optimization for Tribune Interactive, was paying attention. His job is to ensure that a Tribune article lands on the front page of Google’s search results. Will Google lead newspapers to c …
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