The Cable Guise

Ten years ago, as Hungary was roiling with democratic protests, the country had two television channels, both controlled by the state.

Mark Schapiro

Media, Inside Out

The recent CBS-Viacom-bination--at $37 billion, the largest media deal ever--mirrored previous purchases, like Disney's acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC and Time Warner's taking of Turner Broadc

Rory O’Connor

Indonesian Improvisation

Armed militias had forced most journalists to flee from East Timor by September 7, the day then-President B.J. Habibie and General Wiranto of Indonesia declared martial law for the region.

Suzanne Charlé

War of Words

In May 1989 a small group of radio and newspaper journalists and media activists from Belgrade took over a small room in Central Belgrade that the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Part

Veran Matic and Drazen Pantic

The New Global Media

This article is adapted from Robert W. McChesney's Rich Media, Poor Democracy (Illinois).
Three charts accompany this article: "Global Media Moguls," "Who Owns the Movies?" and "Who Owns the Music?"

Robert W. McChesney

Emperor of the Air

If you combined the political roles of Republican front-runner George W.

Alexander Stille

Microsoft’s Fatal Error

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's factual findings in United States v. Microsoft, released November 5, spell the doom of Microsoft as we have known it.

Eben Moglen

The Effect on His Campaign of the Release of George W. Bush’s College Transcript

Obliviously on he sails,
With marks not quite as good as Quayle's.

Calvin Trillin

A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness

A shark swims past me in a kelp forest that sways back and forth with the current. It is deliberate and focused.

Terry Tempest Williams

Bland Art in Every Pot

In 1989, after several years of controversy, legal wrangling and numerous public forums, Richard Serra's sculptural installation Tilted Arc was removed from a federal plaza in New York Cit

Daniel Grant

Flag-Waving at the Whitney

The Triumph of the New York School, a deeply ironic painting by the American artist Mark Tansey, looks at first sight like a rotogravure depiction of a military surrender that took place l

Arthur C. Danto

Innocents Abroad

When people label a film "great," the usual effect is to close off a discussion that ought to be opening.

Stuart Klawans

Fighting the Art Bullies

New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has created enormous consternation and publicity in his attempts to censor an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.