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November 29, 2004 We naturally assign great importance to things that are right in our faces. With the media, we’re impressed with all those new

November 15, 2004 Sometimes, in our lust for the latest gadgets, we ignore proven tools that are already at hand. So it is with media.

November 1, 2004 Both sides in the presidential contest are eager to declare this election the most momentous event since the discovery of fire, and

October 18, 2004 The clamor of the 2004 presidential campaigns has reawakened the idea that the news media should devote energy not just to reporting

October 4, 2004 Vietnam hangs heavily over this presidential campaign. Consider the biting and eye-gouging over the candidates’ service records. Sure, everybody’s got their reasons.

August 23, 2004 The case of Robert Novak and Valerie Plame seems headed for the history books, in some fashion anyway. It won’t be as

August 20, 2o04 If you traffic in commentary, especially media criticism, it’s getting warm out there. The flourishing community of Web-based blogmeisters — some of

August 9, 2004 “Your guest must be from Mars.” That’s one of the milder bits of feedback I’ve gotten recently on things I’ve written or

August 6, 2004 News is a messy and elusive form of information. Reporters don’t just stroll through a meadow of stories in bloom and pluck