KCRW's Minding the Media Podcast
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Support KCRW's public radio podcasts. Join online at KCRW.com or call 800-600-5279. On Minding the Media, Nick Madigan takes a weekly look at how reporters for newspapers, television and other media are doing their jobs. He explores their methods, evaluates their results and questions their thinking.
About Podcasting:
For those of you new to podcasting, Click Here to read our "Introduction to Podcasting" Article.
 Be the First to Review KCRW's Minding the Media Podcast
| Podcast Feed URL: |
Podcast Website:
http://www.kcrw.com/show/mm
Swooning over Obama
Author: Nick Madigan
Tue, Jan 08, 2008
Looking at today's primary in New Hampshire, it's easy to see the extent to which Barack Obama has supplanted Hillary Clinton as the Democrats' front-runner, at least if you heed the pundits...
 Download File - 2.1 MB
 Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Mea Culpas
Author: Nick Madigan
Wed, Dec 19, 2007
We all make mistakes once in a while. But for journalists, whose job often involves pointing out the errors of others, getting something wrong can be fatal to a career...
Download File - 2.0 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Showcase of Dreams
Author: Nick Madigan
Wed, Dec 12, 2007
In the top tier of glossy magazines, none covers celebrity, politics,
culture and scandal with quite the panache of Vanity Fair. Its pages offer a slick, impenetrable view of a world of wealth and
status, a vicarious thrill for the lowly aspirants of the nether
classes. And yet its editor, Graydon Carter, in a bluntly honest interview in
yesterday's London Guardian, tells us that despite the magazine's
upscale glow, putting it out every month is a tenuous art, subject to
all the fears and failings of imperfect human beings...
Download File - 1.9 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
Rewriting History
Author: Nick Madigan
Wed, Dec 05, 2007
If journalism is the first draft of history, we've got our work cut out for us. So many politicians are spinning their own fantastical versions of certain events that it's going to take constant reminding by reporters and columnists to expose the truth and make it stick...
Download File - 2.0 MB
Listen To This Podcast (Streaming Audio)
- Published:
2002
- LearnOutLoud.com Product ID:
K015758
Social Sciences
Current Events
Politics
Contemporary Issues
Education & Professional
Journalism
|
