On the Media

Another Proud Boy Goes to Jail and A Media War in 1980's NYC

This week a former Proud Boys leader received the longest prison sentence for the insurrection so far. On this week’s On the Media, why conspiracy theories that the FBI planned January 6 live on. Plus, in the aftermath of a 1984 subway shooting, hear how the New York press crowned the gunman a hero. 
1. Tess Owen [<a href="https://twitter.com/misstessowen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@misstessowen</a>], senior reporter at Vice News, on the latest fallout from the January 6th insurrection. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/sentencing-former-proud-boy-right-wing-narratives-january-6-on-the-media ">Listen.</a> 
2. Leon Neyfakh [<a href="https://twitter.com/leoncrawl?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@leoncrawl</a>], host of the podcast <a href="adbl.co/vigilante">Fiasco: Vigilante</a>, available exclusively on Audible, on how the press covered a notorious and divisive 1984 New York City subway shooting. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/vigilante-shooting-political-power-fear-on-the-media ">Listen</a>.
 
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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.