Brooke Gladstone
speaker
1,676 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Brooke Gladstone’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Coming up, another case of journalists being silenced for their reporting.
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But this one involves live cockroaches.
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This is On the Media.
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On the Media.
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This is On the Media.
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I'm Michael Loewinger.
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And I'm Brooke Gladstone.
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Journalist intimidation doesn't always come in the buttoned-up form of a subpoena from the government.
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Sometimes it's ripped straight from the stuff of horror movies, like what happened to Ina and David Steiner, a middle-aged couple living in the small town of Natick, Massachusetts.
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The Steiners started selling items on eBay soon after the company launched in the 1990s.
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They liked turning a profit off yard sale fines and engaging with a growing community of sellers.
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These were the halcyon days of eBay, which was founded by the ponytail Birkenstock-wearing techie Pierre Amidiar on the premise that people could be trusted to buy and sell things online because people, basically,
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do the right thing.
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Ina and David decided to launch a newsletter with practical tips for other eBay sellers, like how to photograph items, how to pack them, how to get good shipping prices.
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This newsletter grew into e-commerce bites, a full-fledged online trade publication where they published news about eBay and other e-commerce platforms, and also the equivalent of their own YouTube channel.
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before YouTube existed.
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But then in 2019, the Steiner's story goes completely off the rails.
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Jenny Karchman is a documentary filmmaker who captured the Steiner story and whatever it takes inside the eBay scandal.
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Well, it quickly moves into the real world when the Steiners start receiving packages.
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Oh, my God.
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