Patriotic Gore Patriotic Gore
The words "Al Gore" are properly understood to be synonymous with the words "cautious politician." And yet speaking to MoveOn.org at New York University recently, Gore gave voi...
Aug 14, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman
Different Frequencies Different Frequencies
How small and scrappy radio stations survive in the Clear Channel era.
Jul 31, 2003 / Feature / Brooke Shelby Biggs
Congress Rebuffs the FCC Congress Rebuffs the FCC
The revolution may, in fact, be televised--and on C-Span, no less.
Jul 31, 2003 / John Nichols
Murdoch’s Extended Reach Murdoch’s Extended Reach
Rupert Murdoch will soon become an even more powerful presence in the US.
Jul 10, 2003 / Feature / Jeffrey Chester
Moving on Media Reform Moving on Media Reform
It's no secret that Washington has a limited interest in the public interest these days.
Jun 26, 2003 / John Nichols
‘Scoops’ and Truth at the Times ‘Scoops’ and Truth at the Times
What happens when Pentagon objectives and journalists' needs coincide.
Jun 5, 2003 / Feature / Russ Baker
We’re Shocked, Shocked! We’re Shocked, Shocked!
It's hard to choose which deserves the coarser jeer: the excited baying in the press about the nondiscovery of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or the wailing about the 3-t...
Jun 5, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Mirror of the Times Mirror of the Times
With all the words laundered over the Jayson Blair affair, why is my soul still disquieted? Why do I feel even further from the truth than on the day the journalistic fraud was...
May 29, 2003 / James W. Carey
Now, Gods, Stand Up for Fakers! Now, Gods, Stand Up for Fakers!
Thank God for fakers! Matchless as deflaters of human and institutional pretension, they furnish us rich measures of malicious glee at the red-faced victims.
May 22, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn