Articles

Do Members of the Press Try to Set the Policy Agenda?

Lee Hamilton, former congressman from Indiana: “I am impressed about how many people in the media in Washington, D.C. really are not much interested in doing what I at least…
June 15, 2000

The Sound You Hear Is Silence

When the subject is corporate immorality, nary a judgmental word is heard.
June 15, 2000
Morton Mintz

Designing and Distributing the Survey

With the help of researcher Sue Schuermann, electronic databases were examined to find news stories about corporate crimes and misconduct. These examples were individualized for inclusion in the letters that…
June 15, 2000

News Stories about Corporate Crime and Misconduct

The query to editorial page editors and commentators cited more than 20 specific examples of grave corporate crime and misconduct.A sampling follows: The Ortho unit of Johnson & Johnson* pleaded…
June 15, 2000

Summer 2000: Watchdog Conference Introduction

It’s the tendency to focus on the celebrity, the character, not serious character but personality traits of political figures that trivializes the political process. So the focus of this discussion…
June 15, 2000
Bill Kovach

‘Journalism and Democracy Are Names for the Same Thing.’

A book raises journalists from their self-interested complacency.
June 15, 2000
James W. Carey

Against the Commercial Impulse

An author argues for journalism being a vital force in democracy.
June 15, 2000
Jeffrey Scheuer

Keeping a Reporter’s Eye on the Contributions

It’s easier to find the money, but does the public still want to know?
June 15, 2000
Peter Overby

Coverage of Media Mergers

Does it provide a window into the future of journalism?
June 15, 2000
Norman Solomon

Where Are Muckraking Journalists Today?

An historian says the usual excuses for their absence aren’t valid.
June 15, 2000
Jessica Dorman