Beat the Press: Recent Episodes
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WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press. Topics this week - John McCain reaches out to conservative talk show hosts, black cartoonists plan a protest, WPRI reaches a settlement with survivors of The Station fire, and how credible are polls?
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: WHDH upsets NBC with plans to broadcast more local news instead of Jay Leno; was the press coverage of Marian Walsh unfair?; A Hartford, Conn., newspaper merges with two TV stations.
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: A special broadcast looking at the crisis facing The Boston Globe. Our panel discusses the concessions the New York Times is demanding from unions, evaluates the response to the Globe situation from the Times Co., and how the Globe could be saved.
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: The latest on the crisis facing The Boston Globe,; Court TV's founder proposes a new online news business model; Homeland Security tries to manage the news; and the secret to Glenn Beck's success
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press. Topics this week - how the local media covered the pope's first US visit, ABC faces criticism for its presidential debate, local freebie BostonNow folds and a renewed push for a federal shield law.
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: a rally in support of The Boston Globe; why the "Craigslist Killer" story draws national attention; is imprisoned journalist Roxana Saberi a political pawn?; are the Pulitizers still relevant?
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: Remembering longtime Boston newsman Jim Thistle, a Providence reporter resigns over the direction his station is going, Hulu.com attacks TV pirates and why the ranks of newspaper ombudsmen are shrinking.
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: What the network coverage missed at the Democratic National Convention, an ABC reporter is arrested in Denver, and when can a reporter break a confidentiality agreement?
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Was the coverage from Mumbai delivered by eyewitnesses or citizen journalists?; The Boston Globe's new Web site upsets local competitors; and changes across the media landscape.
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: The Chicago Tribune becomes part of the news, a controversial New York Times Magazine cover story, local TV stations collaborate for a digital conversion test and what Jay Leno's primetime move could mean for local news.
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press. Topics this week - winter storm coverage, Des Moines debates, Chris Daly and his run-in with The Washington Post, and privacy concerns surrounding the Tufts Naked Quad Run.
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. This week, our annual Beat the Press Year in Review: Media bias in 2008, changes in the media landscape, notable media blunders and remembering members of the media who passed away this year.
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. This week-Mitt Romney and the focus on religion and politics, debate differences, and radio news.
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. Topics this week - local media's coverage of the Patriots before the Super Bowl, WRKO's Tom Finneran takes a lobbying job, The Washington Post's new magazine for African-Americans and the media trivializes the Obama-Clinton "snub."
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: is President Obama too media-accessible?; a contemporary artist in hot water with the AP; Madoff whistle-blower Harry Markopolos calls out the Wall Street Journal; and how much longer will online news be free?
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Evaluating Obama's prime-time news conference; NPR asks Fox News to stop using its affiliation with analyst Juan Williams; did the Today Show miss the ball with the octuplets' mother exclusive?; and former WHDH anchor Randy Price weighs in on the state of local news
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press. Topics this week - Hillary Clinton lashes out at MSNBC for sexist remarks, Roger Clemens goes before Congress, and NECN's Phil Balboni undertakes a new international news venture.
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: The New York Times settles a libel lawsuit; The Boston Globe's 7-part series on Sen. Ted Kennedy; The New York Post apologizes for its chimp cartoon; and a Memphis newspaper comes under fire for publishing a list of gun owners.
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: The Rocky Mountain News, prints its final edition; the Pentagon relaxes the ban on photographing flag-draped coffins of service men and women; John Ziegler's new documentary accuses the press of mistreating Sarah Palin; and some positive news stories amid the recession prompt an angry response.
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: Is the press getting the real story out of Gaza?; online comments create a censorship issue; WBZ radio lets more people go; Caroline Kennedy gets grilled by the press
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press. Topics this week - the New Hampshire primary coverage, Roger Clemens' media blitz, and Parade magazine's Bhutto cover.
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: A New York plane crash puts cold weather coverage on ice; Boston University's new investigative journalism initiative; a new Boston-based international news Web site launches; and should the diversity of the White House press corps matter?
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press. Topics this week - An AP reporter argues with Mitt Romney, Randy Moss addresses assault claims, Metro Boston up for sale, and Ms. Magazine rejects a pro-Israel ad.
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond. Topics this week: Caroline Kennedy takes a beating from the press after she withdraws her name as a US Senate candidate; the first White House news briefing gets testy; the Presidential Inauguration draws crowds to the Internet; and personal tycoons set their sights on major newspapers.
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press. Topics this week - growing evidence that the press just doesn't like Hillary Clinton, newsroom cuts, and Fox 25 anchors take a lie detector test.
WGBH's Greater Boston presents Beat the Press - a look at media issues in Boston and beyond.