Society

The Wages of Synergy The Wages of Synergy

Synergy—it's all well and good. But media consolidation's dark side often raises its head.

Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Janine Jaquet

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

AIDS: Another World War AIDS: Another World War

The war on terror is threatening to overshadow a far more deadly threat—the AIDS epidemic.

Dec 20, 2001 / Salih Booker

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

Posting Ideas Posting Ideas

To keep the press free, Ben Franklin made sure that periodicals once got preferential treatment from the USPS. It's time to revisit that idea again.

Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Victor Navasky

Unfriendly Skies Unfriendly Skies

The FAA, which had long ignored airlines' requests for help with unruly passengers, is now relying on those same airlines' apparent racial profiling when deciding who gets ...

Dec 20, 2001 / Bruce Shapiro

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

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

Executive Obstruction Executive Obstruction

The Bush administration's insistence on secrecy in the Whitey Bulger case raises some unsettling questions.

Dec 19, 2001 / Feature / Bruce Shapiro

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