The deep-dish world of media politics
July 12, 2004 Do the news media have a political agenda? That’s a perennial question, but it has special resonance in this unusually shrill electoral
July 12, 2004
July 12, 2004 Do the news media have a political agenda? That’s a perennial question, but it has special resonance in this unusually shrill electoral
June 28, 2004 We usually talk about the press as if it’s an entity that operates in the rarefied world of facts and ideas, but
May 31, 2004 After reading The New York Times’ confession last week about its hapless reporting on Iraq’s weapons programs, I remembered Samuel Johnson’s comment
May 17, 2004 I was running the night city desk of the Miami Herald late one evening maybe 20 years ago when a news assistant
May 3, 2004 A specter is haunting the newsroom — the specter of deceit. And news bosses are getting jumpy. They’re jumpy because the fuss
April 19, 2004 I got a call from a film-maker who was writing an article for a photo magazine pegged to some disparaging remarks about
April 5, 2004 It’s hard to recall a moment when journalistic custom figured quite so prominently, and was exploited so cunningly, in political intrigue. We
March 22, 2004 Stripped to their basics, the far-reaching actions our country has taken in the past year seem bereft of logic: Under the banner
March 8, 2004 Suddenly, sex was back. For a few weeks those perplexing matters of war, plague, taxes and even interplanetary travel were shoved off
February 23, 2004 It’s remarkable in this election year how many of the issues that shape people’s lives are never raised: vanishing pensions, relaxed immigration
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