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Title: Normalize This!

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield

Format: Original Recording

Length: 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-16

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

We devote this hour to a question put to us pretty much daily since election day: How to cover President Trump?

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Title: How (NOT) to Cover Cuba!

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Anthony DePalma

Format: Original Recording

Length: 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-30-16

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times writer Herbert L. Matthews conducted an interview with Castro in the Cuban jungle. Matthews' portrayal of a romantic figure and a promising leader was trusted, until Castro revealed himself and his planned revolution as communist. Brooke speaks with Anthony DePalma, author of The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times, about the infamous coverage of Cuba's infamous leader. Also, the OTM guide on how (not) to cover Cuba.

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Title: Ghosts

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Rick Perlstein, Owen Hatherley, James Solomon, Tarik Cyril Amar, David Rieff

Format: Original Recording

Length: 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-16

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

This election season, the media frequently looked to history in an attempt to explain the rise of Donald Trump. We consider how historical parallels don't always serve us well. Plus, revisiting a notorious murder that the press got wrong; the long reach of a WWII slogan; and attempts in Ukraine to whitewash the nation's history. A special hour on memory, both historical and personal, and how what we remember shapes our world.

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Title: Thanks for Everything, Bing

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Paul Ford

Format: Original Recording

Length: 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-23-16

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

A few years ago, Brooke spoke with the writer Paul Ford about the remarkable connection between Bing Crosby, magnetic tape, Nazi technology, and the computer hard drive. We're putting it down the podcast feed again this week, just before the Thanksgiving holiday, to get you in the mood. You can read Ford's post about Crosby on the New Yorker Elements blog.

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Title: Unreal

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Joshua Green, Andrew Marantz, Jared Taylor, Craig Silverman, Melissa Zimdars

Format: Original Recording

Length: 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-16

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

In the months leading up to the election, some fake news stories generated more engagement on Facebook than real news stories. We consider the landscape of misinformation and how to separate truth from fiction.

Plus: Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist, hasn't just influenced political discourse through the incendiary Breitbart News he's also sabotaged his chosen politicians through investigative journalism.

And we interview a man who the Southern Poverty Law Center calls the cultivated, cosmopolitan face of white supremacy to find out what he wants from the Trump administration.

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Title: Debunking the AIDS "Patient Zero" Myth

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Michael Worobey

Format: Original Recording

Length: 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-16

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

One of the most enduring myths of HIV/AIDS history has finally been laid to rest. The so-called "patient zero," a Canadian flight attendant named Gaétan Dugas, was once blamed for igniting the entire AIDS epidemic in America. Media outlets fixated on his sexual promiscuity; the New York Post called him "The Man Who Gave Us Aids."

But new research published in the journal Nature reexamined the original blood samples taken from Dugas in 1983 and found that the strain of the virus he was infected with was already present in the country years before Dugas frequented the gay scene in New York and San Francisco. Bob talks with Michael Worobey, evolutionary biologist and lead author of the Nature paper, about how the patient zero story is an ongoing black comedy of mischaracterization.

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Title: FiveThirtyEight presents: The Perot Condundrum

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield

Format: Original Recording

Length: 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-16

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Ever since his 1992 dark horse candidacy captured nearly 19% of the popular vote, there have been arguments over the real role of Ross Perot. Was he a spoiler candidate, stealing the election from Bush? Did he de-legitimize Clinton's victory by keeping him from winning a majority of the popular vote? Was there anything to learn from Perot's popularity, or was the unpredictable, charismatic, idiosyncratic billionaire just a fluke?

These are the questions our friends at FiveThirtyEight ponder in this week's excellent documentary podcast, "Long Before Trump, There Was Ross Perot." We like it and we think you will too.

We encourage you to check out all of FiveThirtyEight's other podcasts--including their daily election series that will be putting out an episode--that's right--every day until election day.

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Title: Race to the Bottom

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Charlie Winter, Greg Mitchell, Jill Lepore

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-16

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Donald Trump deflected questions about sexual assault allegations at the second presidential debate by bringing up the ever-looming threat of ISIS. Yet, a new report on the group's dwindling propaganda output suggests ISIS may be losing its grip in the region. Also, how American media and the Kennedy administration became entangled in a network of tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall. And the third installment of our poverty series focuses on the age-old myth of upward mobility in America.

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Title: The United States of Anxiety

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Arun Venugopal, Matt Katz, Kai Wright

Format: Original Recording

Length: 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-16

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

In the midst of an election that has exposed deep and sometimes ugly rifts in American society, WNYC and The Nation have partnered for a new podcast series called "The United States of Anxiety." Each week they look to understand how we arrived at this point by diving deep into the polarized economic, social and political landscape as it exists in communities on Long Island, New York.

This week, we're sharing their latest episode,which looks at the role of the media in creating a narrative of anxiety in the U.S -- particularly conservative talk radio. First, WNYC's Arun Venugopal visits Patty, a Donald Trump supporter who lives in Long Island, to find out about her media diet and how Trump's messaging speaks to her. Then, WNYC's Matt Katz talks to The Nation's Kai Wright about how conservative media reflects the changes taking place in our country and why its followers are distrustful of mainstream news.

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Title: Drug Users Are Presumed Criminals in Ukraine. New Police Training Is Aimed at Changing That

Author: Misha Friedman

Narrator: Marco Werman

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-16

Publisher: PRI's The World

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Ukraine has one of the fastest-growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world. One of the main reasons: intravenous drug use. But just outside the capital Kiev, a group is working with police to change their approach toward drug users - to treat addiction as an illness, not a crime.