Newspaper columns

May 13, 2005 The mainstream news media take a lot of heat from their Internet-based cousins, some of it deserved, some not. But conventional media

May 2, 2005 Auschwitz is in southern Poland, and when I saw it in 1972 it was in the thrall of the Soviet era. The

April 18, 2005 Remember all that outrage a year ago about the deepening concentration of control over the media? How more and more news and

May 16, 2005 The legendary reporter who goes undercover to get the story is part of the mythology of 20th century journalism. But the practice

April 4, 2005 Journalists may or may not be irreligious, but they do like ritual. Hence the refrain, which you hear each time news arises

March 21, 2005 I can’t believe it. Not just that the Bush administration is spending tens of millions of dollars of public money ¾ the

March 7, 2005 See what you think. A Bush family friend and political loyalist records a series of conversations with George W. Bush from 1998

February 21, 2005 The news media got an unusual bashing during last year’s bitter electoral campaigns. They got slapped around from all sides, and everybody

February 7, 2005 There’s reason to applaud the Bush administration’s decision to abandon the latest drive to loosen the rules against concentrated media ownership. The

January 24, 2005 The affair of Armstrong Williams, the columnist and TV commentator who secretly took $240,000 to shill for Bush administration education policy, came