Profiles in Cowardice Profiles in Cowardice
My three favorite media stories in recent weeks were how Bill "Politically Incorrect" Maher kept his job at ABC-TV, how Ann Coulter got herself fired from National Review and how ...
Oct 18, 2001 / Victor Navasky
Private Censorship Private Censorship
As we survey the cultural landscape after the atrocities of September 11, we ought to note the special danger posed to free expression by media concentration.
Oct 11, 2001 / Mark Crispin Miller
Patriot Games Patriot Games
Patriotism requires no apologies. Like anti-Communism and anti-Fascism, it is an admirable and thoroughly sensible a priori assumption from which to begin making more nuanced jud...
Oct 11, 2001 / Column / Eric Alterman
Press Watch Press Watch
The press conference that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld held shortly after the United States began bombing Afghanistan on October 7 was painful to behold. The questions posed ...
Oct 11, 2001 / Michael Massing
Blaming bin Laden First Blaming bin Laden First
Just once more, and then we'll really have to get on with more pressing business. I could subscribe myself at any time to any of the following statements: § A...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Press Watch Press Watch
Of all the programs I've seen on Afghanistan, not one was more chilling than Beneath the Veil, an hourlong documentary that has appeared frequently on CNN. Its narrator, Saira ...
Oct 4, 2001 / Michael Massing
The Clash of Ignorance The Clash of Ignorance
Labels like "Islam" and "the West" serve only to confuse us about a disorderly reality.
Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Edward W. Said
A Rejoinder to Noam Chomsky A Rejoinder to Noam Chomsky
The two related questions before the house are these. Can the attacks of September 11 be compared to an earlier outrage committed by Americans? And should they be so compared? ...
Oct 4, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Public Statement on Pacifica Public Statement on Pacifica
Several individuals have attributed to me certain statements on the issue of the situation known as the "Pacifica Crisis." As I am quite capable of speaking for myself without ea...
Oct 4, 2001 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Reply to Hitchens Reply to Hitchens
I have been asked to respond to recent Nation articles by Christopher Hitchens (website, September 24; magazine, Oct. 8), and after refusing several times, will do so, though only…
Oct 1, 2001 / Feature / Noam Chomsky