Venezuela’s Media Coup Venezuela’s Media Coup
Poor Endy Chávez, outfielder for the Navegantes del Magallanes, one of Venezuela's big baseball teams. Every time he comes up to bat, the local TV sportscasters start in...
Feb 13, 2003 / Column / Naomi Klein
Mighty in Pink Mighty in Pink
A clever new wave of feminist antiwar activism manages to avoid old clichés.
Feb 13, 2003 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Left Coast Notes Left Coast Notes
After nearly two years' absence from politics, Southern California's most popular progressive politician, Antonio Villaraigosa, is back on the stump.
Feb 12, 2003 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Radio Ujjas Radio Ujjas
This article is based on a report originally produced for National Public Radio's On the Media.
Feb 9, 2003 / Feature / Miranda Kennedy
Dishing up Christianity Dishing up Christianity
In 1992 Congress passed a law designed to increase the diversity of television programming and to amplify traditionally underrepresented voices.
Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / David Enrich
As Not Seen on TV As Not Seen on TV
The debate over the dangers of media monopoly got a lot less theoretical in the last week of January, when Comcast, the nation's No.
Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / John Nichols
Genet’s Palestinian Revolution Genet’s Palestinian Revolution
This essay will appear as an introduction in New York Review Books' new edition of Prisoner of Love (February 2003).
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ahdaf Soueif
The New Product Placement The New Product Placement
Last fall, a half-dozen child psychologists lurked around New York's Yale Club at a convention called "Advertising & Promoting to Kids" in search of new, higher-paying clie...
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Segall
Partying on the Right Partying on the Right
We all had our youthful indiscretions that haunt or amuse us for the rest of our lives. Mine was conservatism.
Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / Doug Henwood