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Deploring the State of Beltway Journalism

Spin Cycle: How the White House and the Media Manipulate the NewsHoward KurtzTouchstone. 327 Pages. $14 pb.Those looking for a balanced, critical appraisal of press performance in the Monica Lewinsky…

Dancing to a Different Tune

Before there were Internet news providers, newspapers rarely published the reporting they gathered more than twice a day. Before 24-hour cable news channels, even extraordinary footage usually had to wait…

Two Years of Living Electronically

Covering Breaking Foreign News for the Internet

Hey Newsboys & Girls—Getting Injured Without Workers’ Compensation Builds Character!

My local newspaper, The Iowa City Press-Citizen, advertises: “Paper carriers are independent businesspersons, buying newspapers at wholesale, selling them at retail and pocketing the profits. And…the profits can be substantial.”…

Media and Juvenile Violence: The Connecting Threads

There are some important lessons we’ve learned about how the coverage of violence—especially juvenile violence—influences the way many of us think about teenagers and crime. Related Article “What Numbers Can…

What Numbers Can Tell Us

336% = the percentage increase in coverage of homicide on NBC, ABC, and CBS nightly news between 1990 and 1995. During this time, homicide arrests dropped by 13%.99% = the…

‘Struggling for Memory Against Forgetting’

English-Language Newspapers May Have Been Too Timid, Even Collaborated

Questioning If Guilt Without Punishment Will Lead to Reconciliation

The Black Press Relives Its Own Horrors and Seeks Justice

Showing Faces, Hearing Voices, Tugging at Emotions

Televising the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Winter 1998: Truth and Reconciliation Introduction

How Journalists Tell These Stories Depends on Who They Are and Where They Work