Press Watch Press Watch
For three months now, I've been closely following the coverage of September 11 and its aftermath; how well have the media done?
Dec 20, 2001 / Michael Massing
The Making of a Movement The Making of a Movement
Getting serious about media reform: at a standstill now, the media reform movement's time has come.
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
What’s Wrong With This Picture? What’s Wrong With This Picture?
The rise of the media cartel has been a long time coming. The cultural effects are not new in kind, but the problem has become considerably larger.
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Mark Crispin Miller
The Right in the Classroom The Right in the Classroom
Right-wing climate-change deniers worked hand-in-glove with John Stossel to portray schoolchild as being 'scared green' on a recent ABC special.
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Marianne Manilov
Stossel’s Heroes Stossel’s Heroes
John Stossel has a conservative stable of pundits when it come to his questionable reporting of evironmental issues.
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Mark Dowie
Press Watch Press Watch
Seymore Hersh has had a string of scoops since September 11, laying bare the covert community's skulduggery. Now, though, it seems he's toeing the government's line in ...
Dec 13, 2001 / Michael Massing
‘Objectivity’ RIP ‘Objectivity’ RIP
As the country tilts toward war, media voices are craven in their obsequiousness.
Dec 7, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Press Watch Press Watch
Cable news peddles a soft-shoe rendition of what matters on the global stage, with certain exceptions.
Dec 7, 2001 / Michael Massing
The Ends of War The Ends of War
Now that the Taliban regime has fallen in Afghanistan, that group's leaders can face fair and open trials for their crimes against humanity.
Nov 29, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Press Watch Press Watch
The Times fans the flames of public fear around the anthrax attacks.
Nov 29, 2001 / Michael Massing