Beat the Press Video Podcast

Beat the Press Video Podcast: Mar. 5, 2010

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:05:59 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Boston University's New England Center for Investigative Reporting commits a sin of omission; Washington Post columnists take their differences public; the media assigns human motives to a killer whale; and panel peeves.

Beat the Press Video Podcast: Feb. 26, 2010

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:05:49 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Gov. David Paterson drops his election bid following a series of articles in the New York Times; big changes at ABC News; CNN teams up with VBS.TV; and panel peeves about the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Beat the Press Video Podcast.: Feb. 19, 2010

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:51:20 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Tiger Woods makes his first public appearance and offers an apology; did the New York Times' story on David Paterson's aide deserve the hype?; an anonymous citizen journalist wins the prestigious Polk Award; and panel peeves.

Beat the Press Video Podcast: Feb. 12, 2010

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:46:52 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Gov. David Paterson faces a slew of rumors from an unpublished New York Times article; Toyota pulls ads from some ABC affiliates; the saga of "snowmageddon" hype; and panel peeves.

Beat the Press Video Podcast: Feb. 5, 2010

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:35:33 -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 Video Podcast: Jan. 29, 2010

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:49:12 -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 Video Podcast: Jan. 22, 2010

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:59:21 -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 Video Podcast: Jan. 15, 2010

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:23:51 -0500

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. 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 Video Podcast: Jan. 8, 2010

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:20:04 -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 Video Podcast: Dec. 25, 2009

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:28:52 -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 Video Podcast Dec. 18, 2009

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:56:06 -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 Video Podcast: Dec. 11, 2009

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:45:54 -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 Video Podcast: Dec. 4, 2009

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:33:05 -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 Video Podcast: Nov. 20, 2009

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:31:17 -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 Video Podcast: Nov. 13, 2009

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:26:11 -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.