What Liberal Media? What Liberal Media?
The right is working the refs. And it's working.
Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / Eric Alterman
Media Democracy’s Moment Media Democracy’s Moment
Suddenly, there are serious discussions about the danger of monopoly power.
Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
Dishing up Christianity Dishing up Christianity
In 1992 Congress passed a law designed to increase the diversity of television programming and to amplify traditionally underrepresented voices.
Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / David Enrich
As Not Seen on TV As Not Seen on TV
The debate over the dangers of media monopoly got a lot less theoretical in the last week of January, when Comcast, the nation's No.
Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols
Genet’s Palestinian Revolution Genet’s Palestinian Revolution
This essay will appear as an introduction in New York Review Books' new edition of Prisoner of Love (February 2003).
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ahdaf Soueif
The New Product Placement The New Product Placement
Last fall, a half-dozen child psychologists lurked around New York's Yale Club at a convention called "Advertising & Promoting to Kids" in search of new, higher-paying clie...
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Segall
Partying on the Right Partying on the Right
We all had our youthful indiscretions that haunt or amuse us for the rest of our lives. Mine was conservatism.
Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / Doug Henwood
Copyright Monopolies Copyright Monopolies
Big Media won another battle in the escalating war over copyright on January 15, when the Supreme Court upheld a 1998 law extending copyright terms by twenty years, to life plu...
Jan 30, 2003 / Andrew L. Shapiro
Concerning Pee-Wee, Townshend and Ritter Concerning Pee-Wee, Townshend and Ritter
The worse the state treats kids, the more the state's prosecutors chase after inoffensive "perverts" in the private sector who have committed the so-called crime of getting sex...
Jan 30, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn