What podcasts are you listening to?
I just finished listening to an episode of “On The Media”, one of my favorite podcasts out of WNYC, that takes a deep dive on how the media covers various topics of the day.
This particular episode took a slightly different bent for the second half of the episode, recounting the beginning, the boom, and now the first bust of the podcast world itself.
Sadly, it seems the long-form reporting podcasts that cost real money to produce are losing out to more cost-efficient podcasts featuring celebrities just blabbing about the topic du jour with their celebrity friends. Blech.
That really bums me out because, like everything else under capitalism, quality products will always lose out to higher margins.
Oddly, while NPR and Spotify and others are laying-off their podcasting staff, the podcast world is actually expanding. But more does not necessarily mean better – think of what “reality television” did to network TV. Or even MTV for that matter.
I’m really glad i’ve been able to enjoy the heyday of podcasts over the last twenty years because it’s may never to be the same again. I’ve seen great podcasts come and go over that time.
On my current list are: On The Media, Hidden Brain, Radiolab, Deconstructed, Intercepted, Living Myth, Team Human, Speaking Of Jung, This Jungian Life, New Books In Psychoanalysis, and the DIY Musicians Podcast.
sūdrakarma 