Beat the Press Audio Podcast

Beat the Press Audio Podcast June 27, 2008

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:41:28 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: the media frenzy over the Gloucester pregnancy pact, the Boston Herald moves printing off-site and a political press packet.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast June 20, 2008

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:55:57 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: How long will the press follow Barack Obama's flip-flop on public financing, Tim Russert's passing and speculation over his successor, the Associated Press goes after bloggers and the presidential candidates' wives in the spotlight.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast June 13, 2008

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:04:48 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Remembering NBC's Tim Russert, Barack Obama's anti-smear tactic and should citizen journalists play by different rules?

Beat the Press Audio Podcast June 06, 2008

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:53:04 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: The presidential candidates try to bypass the press, is the Texas polygamist group a cult or a sect?, and Joe Bergantino departs WBZ.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast May 30, 2008

Fri, 30 May 2008 16:47:01 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Boston magazine criticizes Globe columnists, former White House spokesman Scott McClellan under fire for his tell-all book, why assassination remarks are not tolerated and the changing culture of sports reporting.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast May 23, 2008

Fri, 23 May 2008 16:54:41 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Press coverage of Sen. Ted Kennedy's illness, the White House criticizes NBC for editing President Bush's comments, and CN8's Barry Nolan is fired.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast May 16, 2008

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:26:24 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: The Boston Herald's front-page apology to the New England Patriots, NPR's first-hand coverage of the China earthquake, WBZ's Joe Bergantino's reporting on the priest abuse scandal and the media buries Hillary Clinton's West Virginia victory.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast May 09, 2008

Fri, 09 May 2008 16:52:06 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: The press declares a winner in the Democratic primary race, NBC's Kentucky Derby dilemma, former USA Today reporter appears before a judge and a Watertown TAB reporter is served a subpoena.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast May 02, 2008

Fri, 02 May 2008 17:52:00 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. This week's topics, the Jeremiah Wright makes Obama the news, the Democratic presidential candidates break a Fox moratorium, newspaper problems and Barbara Walters reveals her affair with former Sen. Edward Brooke.

Beat the Press Audio Podcast April 25, 2008

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:17:51 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond.