It's often used as an insult - even by our president, who last year called anti-maskers "Neanderthals." But what if we have more in common with our ancestral cousins than we think? On this week's On the Media, hear how these early humans have been unfairly maligned in science and in popular culture. When you hear the word "Neanderthal," you probably picture a mindless, clumsy brute.3 by Henryk GoreckiExurgency by Zoe KeatingWe Insist by Zoe KeatingThe Artifact & Living by Michael AndrewsI Got a Right to Sing the Blues by Billy Kyle Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Pyotr TchaikovskyThe Hammer of Los - John ZornKhovanshchina Overture (remix) Blackbird by Brad Mehldau
Anastasiia Carrier freelance journalist, on growing up with Russian propaganda and unlearning the Kremlin's lies.
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Thomas Rid author of the book Active Measures, on the the long ancestry of modern-day Russian info ops, and Francis Scarr senior digital journalist at BBC Monitoring, on the false narratives that Russian state TV broadcasts about the war in Ukraine. And Kirill Martynov Editor-in-Chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, and Katerina Kotrikadze news director and anchor at TV Rain, and Roman Dobrokhotov Editor-in-Chief of The Insider, on working as Russian journalists-in-exile. OTM Producer Molly Schwartz speaks with Alec Luhn and Veronika Silchenko freelance journalists for Vice, on reporting in Russia under repressive new laws. Plus, a look inside the world of Russian propaganda, and how it influences people.
On this week's On the Media, hear how the Kremlin's crackdown on the press paved the way for war.