Journalists and Journalism

When It Raines… When It Raines…

Where do I begin?

Jun 12, 2003 / Column / Eric Alterman

‘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

Baiting the French Baiting the French

George W.

Jun 5, 2003 / Doug Ireland

The Liar The Liar

Steal this book.

May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Emily Nussbaum

White Lies White Lies

The radio went on in the middle of the night and there in my ear was the voice of a young man.

May 29, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt

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

Fight Club Fight Club

Writing may be fighting, as Ishmael Reed famously opined, but most writers know the difference. There are, of course, some who blur the line.

May 22, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz

Forgetting to Laugh Forgetting to Laugh

Of all the columns I've written, never have I gotten more mail than for the following sentence: "It will not matter that the Dixie Chicks play to full, cheering houses, while t...

May 22, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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

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