In this week’s episode of ‘Blaming the Messenger,” The Daily Free Press discusses the failure of the Ford and Carter administrations to adequately respond to negative media coverage, which ultimately doomed their administrations.
Voice work provided by Daniel Multz, Will Aracri, Trevor Tamura, and Abbey McCracken. Fact-checking and script editing by Jackson Machesky, Angela Yang, Sarah Readdean, and Justin Tang. Editing by Justin Tang. Original music by Jackson Machesky. Thanks to BU Professors Chris Daly and Bruce Schulman for inspiring the idea behind this podcast. Funding and support provided by The Daily Free Press, Boston University’s independent student-run newspaper.
Jackson Machesky is a Junior studying political science in the College of Arts and Sciences and journalism in the College of Communication and the podcast editor for Spring 2021. He is the writer and host of the Daily Free Press podcast "Blaming the Messenger" and co-host of "Is It OK If I Record?" and "East to West."