1998 Columns

• All Eyes Are on the Senate -- But What Is It? (December 29)
• Behind the News Coverage of Bombing and Bombast (December 21)
• And Now, The P.U.-litzer Prizes for 1998 (December 17)
• When We Forget, Anguish Is Often Buried Alive (December 3)
• "Corporate Welfare": A Media Issue at Last? (November 26)
• The Disturbing Eagerness for a Bloody Attack (November 19)
• The Downside of Those Wholesome Ads for Milk(November 12)
• Foiled Conservatives Should Mull "Pleasantville" (November 4)
• Internet Shopping Network: The Malling Of Cyberspace (October 29)
• Media And Memory: The Arrest of a Dictator (October 22)
• A Hollow Core at the "Vital Center" (October 15)
• Israeli Prisoner Still a Non-Person in U.S. Media (October 1)
• Going Hungry: News That Really Matters (September 24)
• Wading Through a Flood of Media Cliches (September 17)
• "Heroes" Depend on Priorities of Media Spin (September 10)
• What If We Didn't Need Labor Day? (September 3)
• Orwellian Logic 101 -- A Few Simple Lessons (August 27)
• This Is Your Media Life, Bill Clinton! (August 20)
• News Media Advising Clinton on How to Spin (August 13)
• Is The V-Chip a Stealth Weapon Against Commercials? (August 6)
• Presidential Scandals in the Eye of Beholder (July 30)
• Letting Media Myths Rest in Peace (July 23)
• Bumpy Media Road for a Wellstone Presidential Drive (July 16)
• Retractions of Reporting Are Quite Selective (July 9)
• Dream Team for a Media All-Star Game (July 2)
• Former "Red China" Is the Color of Money (June 25)
• Elite Preoccupations Leave Other Concerns in Shadows (June 18)
• Motherhood, Apple Pie and Computers (June 11)
• News That Still Goes Unreported: "Dollars Per Vote" (June 4)
• If a TV News Anchor Talked Straight (May 28)
• Tall Tales for Adults Are Beyond Belief (May 21)
• Nuclear Testing Story Has Some Big Holes (May 14)
• News Media Hit Jackpot with State Lotteries (May 7)
• All Hail Jerry Springer, the Latest Media Bad Guy (April 30)
• After Pulitzer, Graham's Book Still Lacks Scrutiny (April 23)
• When All the World's a Stage--For Cashing In (April 16)
• Diagnosis for News Media: "Diversity Fatigue" (April 9)
  
• Honoring King While Clouding His Legacy (April 2)
• Freedom of the Press: Don't Take It for Granted (March 26)
• Sex-Scandal Coverage Evades Clinton Contradictions (March 19)
• Whitewashington Week in Review (March 12)
• Time Magazine's Skewed Tribute to Henry Luce (March 5)
• The Media Habits of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hype (February 26)
• Iraq: The Toll of Self-Censorship as the Bombs Fall (February 19)
• A Memo From the Grim Reaper (February 12)
• Five Years into the Clinton Presidency (January 29)
• New Clinton Scandal More Grist for the Media Mill (January 22)
• Media to Americans: You Never Had It So Good (January 15)

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