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The arrest of former Massachusetts Turnpike chairman Matt Amorello on drunk driving charges was heavily reported.  However the tone of the coverage changed dramatically after the booking photos of Amorello were released.

JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater made national headlines when he opened the emergency ramp and slid down after an angry confrontation with a passenger. Should the media have portrayed Slater as a working class hero?

Would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad was on the run after his SUV-bomb failed to detonate on the Great White Way, with the FBI, the NYPD, anyone else with acronym, and the media in hot pursuit. But did leaks that passed from law enforcement to the media and ultimately to Shahzad almost result in a terrorist making a clean getaway? NPR's Dina Temple-Raston says yes. Our panel may have a few thoughts.

James O’Keefe had been hailed by some conservatives as a media star after his undercover expose of ACORN.  O’Keefe’s arrest for entering a US Senate office, impersonating a telephone repair man, sparked a new debate over O’Keefe’s tactics.

Sixteen-year-old Derrion Albert was beaten to death in Chicago in a brutal murder that was captured on cell phone video. The White House called the video “chilling.” As TV stations invite viewers to send them video of news stories, are guidelines changing for what should be broadcast?

Award-winning CBS news producer Robert Joe Halderman is under arrest, charged with attempting to extort late night host David Letterman.  The producer was allegedly going to expose Letterman for having sexual relations with members of his staff. Letterman admitted having sex with employees on his show last night.  The big question is: how does the CBS news division report on one of the biggest stars of the CBS Entertainment division? 

Tonight, a special recap of Beat the Press topics, including coverage of the arrest of Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr.; why swine flu victims are not named; the financial problems at the Bay State Banner; how the media helped fuel the idea that budget cuts might result in the euthanization of zoo animals; and why the President Obama birth certificate deniers get so much attention.

The release of the 9-1-1 tapes from the Henry Louis Gates arrest absolved caller Lucia Whalen as a racist and changed the story line. But the tapes revealed more about the media's reporting of the Gates arrest story.

The arrest of Harvard's Henry Louis Gates created an unexpected media storm and ignited a debate on race relations in America. Was the way the story was reported help fuel its controversial nature?