Beat the Press Video Podcast

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.

Beat the Press Video Podcast: Nov. 6, 2009

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:06:01 -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 Video Podcast Oct. 30, 2009

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:17:04 -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 Video Podcast Oct. 23, 2009

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:14:23 -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 Video Podcast Oct. 16, 2009

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:46:46 -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?

Beat the Press Video Podcast Oct. 09, 2009

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:45:23 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: media reaction to President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize; a case to add more troops in Afghanistan is made through the press; the White House backs away from a proposed shield law for journalists; and where will the Boston City Hall e-mail story lead?

Beat the Press Video Podcast Oct. 02, 2009

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:30:26 -0400

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. Topics this week: CBS misses the scoop on the David Letterman extortion story; is the press too forgiving of Roman Polanski?; a brutal video of a beating in Chicago raises the question what to show and what not to show; and why a Facebook poll got so much attention.

Beat the Press Video Podcast Sept. 25, 2009

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:23:03 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: how does WGBH's purchase of WCRB change the Boston news radio market; the community advocacy group ACORN files a lawsuit against an undercover videographer; will the Boston Globe Reader catch on?; and journalism schools see increased enrollment, despite problems in the industry.

Beat the Press Video Podcast Sept. 18, 2009

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:01:59 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Former president Jimmy Carter injects race into the national debate; an undercover video lands ACORN in hot water; did ABC Tweets an off the record comment?; and The Washington Post seeks upbeat news.

Beat the Press Video Podcast Sept. 11, 2009

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:52:54 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Local media gears up for the Massachusetts Senate race; President Obama critiques the press at memorial service for Walter Cronkite; Stars and Stripes gets a new editor and direction; and ESPN turns 30.

Beat the Press Video Podcast Aug. 28, 2009

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:25:42 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Tonight on a special edition of Beat The Press, Emily Rooney discusses the media’s role in Senator Kennedy’s career with Sam Allis of the Boston Globe, a contributor to the Globe’s biography, Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy, Joe Sciacca of the Boston Herald, Dan Rea of WBZ Radio and political analyst John Henning.

Beat the Press Video Podcast Aug. 14, 2009

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:36:41 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: The press finally covers the issues on the health care debate; Hillary Clinton's outburst overshadows her overseas mission; CNN bans radio talk show hosts; the New York Times admits it invented a trend.

Beat the Press Video Podcast Aug. 7, 2009

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:04:22 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: MBTA chief Dan Grabauskas resigns - what role did the media play?; how to cover health care protests at town halls; and the Boston Globe-WEEI feud finally ends.

Beat the Press Video Podcast July 31, 2009

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:56:06 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: The New York Times names Red Sox slugger David Ortitz as a steroid user; how the press got the facts wrong in the Henry Gates arrest story; some University of Alaska journalism students prepare to embed with soldiers in Iraq; and why is the media covering the birthers conspiracy?

Beat the Press Video Podcast July 24, 2009

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:20:57 -0400

WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: How the arrest of Harvard's Henry Louis Gates ballooned into a national issue; ESPN's Erin Andrews is the victim of a Peeping Tom and the press; and remembering longtime anchor Walter Cronkite.