Media Matters Media Matters
"Politics and language," explains the dust jacket on the latest edition of Safire's New Political Dictionary, are "William Safire's two great and abiding interests." True, but to...
Jun 3, 1999 / Column / David Sarasohn
The Net That Binds The Net That Binds
This article is adapted from Andrew L. Shapiro's book about the politics of the Internet, The Control Revolution (PublicAffairs/Century Foundation). For more information visit www....
Jun 3, 1999 / Feature / Andrew L. Shapiro
On the Virtual Picket Line On the Virtual Picket Line
The unfortunate flaw in From the Telegraph to the Internet is its title, which suggests a highly specialized account of an industry when in fact it is a deeply moving narrative ...
May 13, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Marcus G. Raskin
Whose Pacifica? Whose Pacifica?
There's a scene in The Godfather when Clemenza, anticipating the outbreak of a full-scale war between the families, nonchalantly remarks to young Mikey Corleone: "This thing's go...
Apr 21, 1999 / Marc Cooper
Media Matters Media Matters
Record numbers of students are going online, according to UCLA's annual survey of college freshmen released this past January.
Apr 8, 1999 / Column / Logan Hill
Rebellion at Pacifica Rebellion at Pacifica
One in five people in America lives within reach of the FM frequencies of the Pacifica radio network, which consists of stations in Berkeley, Los Angeles, New York, Washington an...
Apr 8, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
On the Dismissal of Ken Bode On the Dismissal of Ken Bode
'Cause Washington Week in Review
Had made insufficient ado,
A jazzy new boss
Gave Bode the toss,
Not knowing a storm would ensue.
Mar 4, 1999 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Tilting at Rumor Mills Tilting at Rumor Mills
Now that the Constitution has been rescued and sexual McCarthyism discredited, perhaps the most durable legacy of the Lewinsky mess is the central location of the right-wing sl...
Feb 25, 1999 / Column / Eric Alterman
How Hitchens Suckered Himself How Hitchens Suckered Himself
Amid the shifting sands of Christopher Hitchens's accounts of and apologias for his bearing witness (deemed false witness by the man he still insists on calling his friend) again...
Feb 18, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
Policing Cyberspace Policing Cyberspace
Free speech, Oliver Wendell Holmes famously declared, ought not to extend to falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater. But what are the limits on shouting across the wide-open...
Feb 11, 1999 / The Editors