Journalist’s Trade

Youngster at Wayne County Juvenile Justice Center in Detroit. Photo by Pauline Lubens/The Detroit Free Press.In ancient times, a coin was flipped to assist people in important decisions of life.…

In a year when journalism is running wild on the Internet and the transgressions of the press have made headlines, e.g. CNN’s nerve gas broadcast, the fabricated stories in The…

Right-Wing Exile Foundation in Florida Uses Defamation Suits to Chill Criticism of Its Policies

RELATED ARTICLE“SLAPPing Down the Debate Over Cuba”– John S. Nichols and Robert D. RichardsThe idea that knowledge can come to you only through a sort of pictorial electronic representation itself…

“I think a strong argument can be made that the residents of [poorer] areas are severely disadvantaged—as citizens, as workers, as consumers—by the lack of serious coverage from television and…

I think that I shall never see any Chicanos on TV*

I stood under Mao’s portrait as Clinton’s limousine pulled onto Tiananmen. I saw the 21-gun salute fired from the heart of Tiananmen. A brisk arrival ceremony was held directly to…

New Providence Island, The Bahamas, 1982. © Barbara Norfleet, “All the Right People,” Little, Brown and Company.In recent months the daily press has perched on the edge of repentance. With…

A Day with the White House Traveling Press Corps in Beijing

I’m deeply troubled in America that the chasm between those who have wealth and those who don’t is getting wider and wider. There are more people who are the have-nots…