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Questioning the Press’s Adversarial Tone

The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to DialogueDeborah TannenRandom House. 348 Pages. $25.“The Battle of the Sexes,” “Telecommunications Price Wars,” “Democrats Send Clinton into Battle for Second Term,” “A Classic…

Cloning, a Great Story, but Know What You Are Writing

Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New WorldLee M. SilverAvon Books. 317 Pages. $25.Those biologists who tend toward irreverence say their conservative peers have one standard response to…

On-line Profits From News Must Wait

In the three years or so that media organizations have operated on-line news sites very few, if any, have made a profit. There aren’t many success stories to highlight. The…

Frank Van Riper

RELATED ARTICLE“The Best Picture I Never Took”– Frank Van RiperIn combining my talents as both a writer and photographer I am doing something unusual and, I think, important in the…

Stanley Forman

I was on vacation from my job at WCVB-TV Boston in September 1986 and had spent the early evening playing cards. At 11:30 I quit to pick up a friend…

Steve Northup

These pictures were made in November of l972, about the time Nixon was getting re-elected. The Indians, marching as part of the American Indian Movement, went to Washington and simply…

Stan Grossfeld

RELATED ARTICLE“The Best Picture I Never Took”– Stan GrossfeldIt’s a familiar refrain: kids having kids. There’s an unexpected twist here, however. Christina and Allan “are white kids in a nice…

‘Secret’ Behind TV Station’s Photos

By getting down to eye level, a KUSA photographer gives a sense of the action and the emotions of wheelchair athletes.Denver’s KUSA-TV has been named Television News Photography Station of…

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Tobacco and the American Civil Liberties Union

ACLU’s Charges New York To the Editor: Morton Mintz’s latest diatribe against the ACLU only serves to degrade and debase the standards of your magazine, whose stated purpose is “to…