Moving on Media Reform Moving on Media Reform
It's no secret that Washington has a limited interest in the public interest these days.
Jun 26, 2003 / John Nichols
The Press and Private Lynch The Press and Private Lynch
The Pentagon was selling a patriotic tale. It found many eager buyers.
Jun 19, 2003 / Feature / Daphne Eviatar
Letter From Ground Zero Letter From Ground Zero
Robert Kaplan is a hugely well-informed, indefatigable journalist who combines firsthand reporting, mostly from poor, badly governed or ungoverned countries, with wide reading ...
Jun 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Schell
The Ballad of Private Lynch The Ballad of Private Lynch
Preferring death to getting caught,
She emptied weapons as she fought.
Though shot and stabbed she didn't flinch.
She battled on, did Private Lynch.
Or did she?
Jun 19, 2003 / Column / Calvin Trillin
‘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
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