On the Media Co-Host Bob Garfield is a columnist, critic, essayist, pundit,
international lecturer, and inveterate broadcaster. In print, Garfield's "Ad
Review" TV-commercial criticism feature in Advertising Age has made him among
the more pitifully groveled-before figures in trade-magazine history.
He has been a columnist for USA Today and contributing editor for Civilization
and the Washington Post Magazine. He has also written for The New York Times,
Playboy, Sports Illustrated, and many other publications. A collection of his
work, titled Waking Up Screaming from the American Dream, was published by
Scribner in 1997. Garfield co-wrote "Tag, You're It," a snappy country song
performed by Willie Nelson, and wrote an episode of the short-lived NBC sitcom
Sweet Surrender.
In broadcast, before becoming co-host of On The Media, he was a longtime
commentator/ correspondent for NPR's All Things Considered. On television, he
is the advertising analyst for ABC News. Previously, he has been an analyst or
correspondent for CBS News, CNBC, PBS, and the defunct Financial News Network.
He also created and produced KnowItAll!, a retro-60s quiz show which four
networks rejected, but which is still available, call any time, operators are
standing by.