Extra! March/April 2008

Articles available online:
Rediscovering Somalia
Press downplays U.S. role in renewed crisis
By Julie Hollar

The Incredible Shrinking Think Tank
Third year in a row of declining citations
By Michael Dolny

Fear & Favor 2007
How power still shapes the news
By Janine Jackson and Peter Hart

What National Intelligence Estimate?
Good news fails to slow anti-Iran campaign
By Steve Rendall

Giuliani's Winning Strategy of Losing
'Front-runner' spent millions in states he 'skipped'
By Peter Hart

Perilous Journalism in the Persian Gulf
Strait of Hormuz incident's uncritical coverage
By Isabel Macdonald

Saddam's 'Secret'
Hussein told CBS about WMDs--but CBS wasn't watching
By Seth Ackerman

Is Undercover Over?
Disguise seen as deceit by timid journalists
By Aaron Swartz

SoundBites

Truth in Advertising ‘a Business Disaster’
By Janine Jackson and Peter Hart

Barbara Seaman, 1935–2008
Editor's Note
By Jim Naureckas

Letter Exchange
Paraguay’s Tri-Border Area: Who’s Hyping Whom?