Commentaries

BBC’s NEWSHOUR

Presidential Primary Politics and Super PACs (4/24/12)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00qrxj2

PRI’s HERE AND NOW

Super PACs Help Fund Primary Ad Wars (3/5/12)

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/03/05/super-pacs-advertisement

Super Bowl: Amateurs Beat Out Madison Avenue (2/6/12)

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/02/06/super-bowl-commercials

Negative Ads Dominate Airwaves In Iowa (1/2/12)

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/01/02/negative-ads-iowa

Candidates Reach Into Digital Bag Of Tricks To Poach Support (12/9/11)

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/12/09/candidates-digital-strategy

Twitter ‘Giveth And Taketh Away’ For Presidential Candidates (11/10/11)

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/11/10/twitter-gop-race

News Organizations Cash In On Quickie E-Books (8/3/11)

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/08/03/newspapers-cash-ebook

Your Tweets Could Star In Commercials, Books, Even TV Shows (6/16/11)

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/06/16/twitter-tweets-commercial

Tweeting Their Way to the White House (5/10/11)

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/05/10/tweet-presidential-hopefuls

Super Bowl’s Pre-Pre-Game Show Brought To You By Rent-A-Center (2/4/11)

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/02/04/super-bowl-ads

Companies Cave to Anti-Social Media Campaigns (10/25/10)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2010/10/rundown-1025/

Candidates Copy Fashion, But May Lack Flair, Of Sen. Scott Brown (8/26/10)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2010/08/rundown-826-2/

Super Bowl Ad Kicks Up Controversy (1/28/10)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2010/01/rundown-128-2/

Is Chrysler Selling Cars or Cause? (12/25/09)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/12/rundown-1225/

“Don’t Be Creepy”/Google (11/16/09)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/11/rundown-1116/

And Now This Commercial Interruption (8/14/09)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/08/3372/

Tweet This! (7/29/09)

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2009/07/29/rundown-729

GM’s Image Control (6/11/09)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/06/rundown-611/

No Escaping Commercials (5/11/09)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/05/rundown-511/

Obama Communication Problems (3/20/09)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/03/rundown-320/

McFlurries Anyone? (3/12/09)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/03/rundown-312/

Not Bowled Over by Super Bowl Ads (2/2/09)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/02/rundown-202/

How Are Rights Changing Under Obama? (1/29/09)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2009/01/rundown-0129/

“The View” and the Election (10/29/08)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2008/10/show-rundown-for-10292008/

Truth Squading the Candidates (10/12/08)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2008/10/show-rundown-for-1012008/

Senate Races Get Nasty (10/8/08)

http://www.hereandnow.org/2008/10/show-rundown-for-1082008/

NPR’s ONLY A GAME

ESPN’s 30th Anniversary (9/5/09)

http://www.onlyagame.org/2009/09/saturday-september-5-2009/

Super Bowl Ads (1/31/09)

http://www.onlyagame.org/2009/01/saturday-january-31st-2009/

PRI’s LIVING ON EARTH

Monsters, Manipulation, and the Message from Nuclear Films (3/26/11)

http://bit.ly/fi9ByG

BP’s Image Problem (6/11/10)

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=10-P13-00024&segmentID=6

Audi’s Green Police (2/13/10)

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=10-P13-00007&segmentID=6

WBUR’S RADIO BOSTON

Week in Review: Cahill Indicted, Big Dig Trouble

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2012/04/06/week-in-review-89

Colbert Attack Ads on Romney Hit S.C. Airwaves (1/17/12)

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2012/01/17/colbert-romney-attack-ad

Live from the Airwaves: Political Advertising Packs a Punch (1/9/12)

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2012/01/09/live-from-the-airwaves-political-advertising-packs-a-punch

Candidates, Super PACs Spar In Early Primary States (12/22/11)

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2011/12/22/candidates-and-super-pac

Mass. Senate Political Ads Hit The Airwaves (11/18/11)

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2011/11/18/ma-senate-political-ads

In N.H., Tactics Shift On The Ground And Over Airwaves (10/26/11)

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2011/10/26/new-hampshire-primary

Missing the Message in New Hampshire (8/15/11)

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2011/08/15/john-carroll-nh-media

In Obama Visit To Boston, Herald Plays Left Out (5/18/11)

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2011/05/18/obama-herald-fundraise

Extra Spin Cycle: The Media on the Media (1/13/11)

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2011/01/13/media-watching

Connecticut Wiped Off New England Map (12/14/10)

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2010/12/14/ct-tourism

Campaign Ads Are Calling, Are You Listening? (11/2/10)

http://www.wbur.org/2010/11/02/campaign-ads-2

Who Approved This Message: A Look at Campaign Ads (10/21/10)

http://www.wbur.org/2010/10/21/campaign-ads

Campaign Ads Invade Mass. Homes (9/29/10)

http://www.wbur.org/2010/09/29/campaign-ads-invade-mass-homes

Boston Mayoral Election (10/26/09)

http://www.radioboston.org/shows/2009/10/26/boston-mayoral-election-nov-3rd/

WBUR’s MORNING EDITION

U.S. Senate Media (11/3/09)

http://www.wbur.org/2009/11/03/senate-media

U.S. Senate Advertising (10/2/09)

http://www.wbur.org/2009/10/02/senate-advertising

Gates-gate Media (7/28/09)

http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/28/gates-media

It’s Good to Live in a Two-Newspaper Town (7/21/09)

http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/21/two-paper-coverage

Times Wants “Clean” Globe for Sale (6/16/09)

http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/16/globe-suitors

FDA Smoke and Mirrors (6/12/09)

http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/12/fda-tobacco

Paper Shredding At the Globe (6/5/09)

http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/05/globe-presence

Eye on BI (5/20/09)

http://www.wbur.org/2009/05/20/bi-ad-campaign

Boston Mayoral Ads (5/15/09)

http://www.wbur.org/2009/05/15/mayoral-ads

Globe Preaches to Wrong Choir (4/24/09)

http://www.wbur.org/2009/04/24/globe-commentary

Massachusetts Tourism Campaign (4/17/09)

http://www.wbur.org/2009/04/17/mass-tourism

Globe Documents Own Dismantling (4/10/09)

http://www.wbur.org/2009/04/10/carroll-the-globe-documents-its-own-dismantling

WGBH’s MORNING EDITION

2008 Archive

http://www.wgbh.org/article?item_id=3326572&parent_id=345023

2007 Archive

http://www.wgbh.org/article?item_id=3969726&parent_id=345023

CAMBRIDGE FORUM/NPR

Moderator: Wendell Potter, Deadly Spin  (11/30/10)

http://forum-network.org/lecture/deadly-spin-how-pr-killing-health-care-and-undermining-democracy