Beat the Press Audio Podcast

Beat the Press Audio Podcast: Feb. 5, 2010

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:52:05 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: the media searches for new angles in its Scott Brown coverage; controversial filmmaker James O'Keefe is arrested; do Super Bowl ads meet broadcast standards; and panel peeves.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast: Jan. 29, 2010

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:50:22 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: a lack of exit polls leads to media speculation on Scott Brown's Senate victory; is The National Enquirer's John Edwards story worthy of a Pulitzer Prize?; a drop in religion reporters; and panel peeves.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast: Jan. 22, 2010

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:48:12 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: what role did talk radio play in the Massachusetts Senate race?; how did the media shape Senator-elect Scott Brown's image; has media fatigue set in on the reporters covering the Haiti earthquake; and panel peeves.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast: Jan 15, 2010

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:22:40 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Coverage of earthquake-ravaged Haiti; the impact of polling on the US Senate race between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown; how the media handled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's "negro dialect" comment; and panel peeves.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast: Jan. 8, 2010

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:18:53 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Fox's Brit Hume's spiritual guidance for Tiger Woods; why some cable channels could disappear; Babson College professor and Beat the Press panelist Kara Miller lands in the spotlight; and panel peeves.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast: Dec. 25, 2009

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:26:30 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Beat the Press Year in Review: panelists Callie Crossley, Adam Reilly, Dan Kennedy and Joe Sciacca look back at the year in media. Topics include media meltdowns across the country, reporters who make the news and the hype and hysteria stories of 2009.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast: Dec. 18, 2009

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:54:52 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: The facts get in the way of the Taunton Jesus drawing story; did leaked e-mails influence climate control coverage?; the New York Post hires Eliot Spitzer's former call girl Ashley Dupre; and Beat the Press Panel peeves.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast: Dec. 11, 2009

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:47:46 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: A major anchor shake-up at ABC; a Maine reporter's e-mail about same-sex marriage costs him his job; and was the US media sympathetic to Amanda Knox?

Beat the Press Audio Podcast: Dec. 4, 2009

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:22:46 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Journalists in some parts of the world are targeted for slaughter; how Tiger Woods lost control of his own story; and the real story of the White House party crashers.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast: Nov. 20, 2009

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:17:33 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Oprah Winfrey ends her show after 25 years; Sarah Palin's book tour; a WCVB investigative report uses video shot by an animal rights group; and The Hartford Courant faces plagiarism charges.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast: Nov. 13, 2009

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:24:58 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: conservative media takes hold of the Fort Hood story; Lou Dobbs makes an abrupt departure from CNN; online news sites may become more expensive; and a Fairfield University newspaper is accused of sexual harassment.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast: Nov. 6, 2009

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:05:54 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: the media sorts through a minefield of data in the Fort Hood shooting story; media analysis on Election Night focuses on President Obama; former state senator Dianne Wilkerson moves to have her case dismissed because of pre-trial publicity; and journalism students at the Medill Innocence Project have their records subpoenaed.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast Oct. 30, 2009

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:16:19 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Jack E. Robinson enters the Senate race and receives little press coverage; how Facebook has changed the rules of journalism; the Christian Science Monitor finds success online; and NBC competes with its Boston affiliate, WHDH.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast Oct. 23, 2009

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:13:37 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: New York Times reporter David Rohde's series on his time as a Taliban prisoner; Worcester Police Department gives the Worcester Telegram & Gazette the silent treatment; the press is fooled by an environmental group's hoax; and a Michigan TV station turns to on-air obituaries for revenue. Tonight's panelists are Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University, Joe Sciacca of the Boston Herald, television commentator Callie Crossley and Joshua Benton of the Nieman Journalism Lab.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast Oct. 16, 2009

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:28:55 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: An out of control balloon takes the press for a ride; The New York Times Co. says The Boston Globe is not for sale; the White House takes aim at Fox News Channel; and is the news magazine a thing of the past?