Imprecision 2020: OTM’s Election Night Livestream
Originally Aired: Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Overview
Join On The Media hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield for OTM’s first-ever live election night show, featuring expert interviews, music, comedy, and reflections and reactions from the OTM crew. Whether you’re a fan of the show or just need a safe space to hang out, open up a tab and join us for the evening. Guests include host of The Gist Mike Pesca, host of WNYC’s United States of Anxiety, Kai Wright, comedian Jessica Kirson, actor Alec Baldwin, WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show host, Brian Lehrer, Buzzfeed reporter Jane Lytvynenko, writer Mychal Denzel Smith and WNYC producer Amy Pearl. They will also be joined by musicians Meah Pace and Randy Ingram as well as Cécile McLorin Salvant.
Credit: Photo courtesy of guest.
Brooke Gladstone is best known for the…pause…that Bob Garfield inserts before mentioning her name in the credits for On the Media. She’s the recipient of two Peabody Awards, a National Press Club Award, an Overseas Press Club Award and many others you tend to collect if you hang out in public radio long enough. Just before coming to On the Media, she did some pilots for WNYC of a call-in show about human relationships with Dan Savage called A More Perfect Union. She also is the author of The Influencing Machine (W.W. Norton), a media manifesto in graphic form, listed among the top books of 2011 by The New Yorker, Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal, and among the “10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction” by The Atlantic.
Credit: Photo courtesy of guest.
Bob Garfield is the co-host of On the Media. Apart from On the Media, Bob has been a columnist for 30-plus years, at the moment on the subjects of media and marketing for The Guardian and MediaPost. When not casting broadly, Bob casts podly, with former OTM producer Mike Vuolo on the insanely popular Slate language program “Lexicon Valley.” In print, Bob has been a contributing editor for the Washington Post Magazine, Civilization and the op-ed page of USA Today. He has also written for The New York Times, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Atlantic and Wired and been employed variously by ABC, CBS, CNBC and the defunct FNN as an on-air analyst. He is the author of five books, most recently Can’t Buy Me Like. His first book, Waking Up Screaming from the American Dream, was published by Scribner in 1997, favorably reviewed and quickly forgotten. His 2003 manifesto on advertising, And Now a Few Words From Me, is published in six languages (although, admittedly, one is Bulgarian).