July/August 2005
Table of Contents
Articles
- The Vigilante Jesús Blancornelas’s crusade against Tijuana’s violent drug culture made him a hero — but at a cost. By Eric Umansky
- The UN’s Paul Revere Why do the media cover some global crises and ignore others?
Jan Egeland talks to Mariah Blake.
- The Crowded Theater It’s time for the press to stop cowering before its critics.
By Douglas McCollam
- Off Course How The New York Times’s hip and ambitious coverage of pop culture manages to miss half the story. By Michael Massing
- Quest For Fire The author went looking for the small-town paper of his dreams, and learned something about power. By Michael Shapiro
- Bitter Pill How the press helps market prescription drugs instead of monitoring them, sometimes with deadly consequences. By Trudy Lieberman
- Soul Search The Venezuelan press struggles to regain its bearings after serving as a tool of the anti-Chavez movement. By John Dinges
- Gentlemen’s Club Jennifer Weiss crunched the numbers and found men’s bylines far outnumber women’s at the nation’s top intellectual and political magazines. Take a look at her tallies.
Commentary
- Editorial What Howard (Fineman) should have said to Don (Imus).
- Voices Stephen Totilo wants more sophisticated video-game coverage, and Gilbert Cranberg wants to close an ethical loophole.
- Darts & Laurels An army of one, marital matters, and more. By Gloria Cooper
- State of the Art Bit by painstaking bit, the press shined a light on the outsourcing of torture.
By Gloria Cooper
- Scene My former colleague, the spy. By Terence Smith
Ideas & Reviews
- Essay Journalism’s belated embrace of postmodernism. By Mitchell Stephens
- Second Read Marla Cone on Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and a question for our times:
How safe do we want to be?
- Reviews Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis. By William Haltom and Michael McCann. Reviewed by Michael Schudson
- Book Reports By James Boylan
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