CJR Issue 4: July/August 2006

July/August 2006

FM Mullahs How "talk radio" turned deadly in Pakistan's tribal frontier. By Sonya Fatah.
The End of Ambiguity From sourcing to secrets, a series of untidy compromises between the government and the press are eroding, leaving journalists boxed in. By Douglas McCollam.
Other Voices The rising hunger for personal narrative in a fragmenting world. By Kiera Butler.
The Magician Medill's new dean, John Lavine, says he can pull a cross between journalism and marketing out of his hat. Watch closely. By Daniel Schulman.
Letters From Paris Last year's riots highlighted the lack of diversity in the French press. Change is coming, but will it matter? By Jeremy Harding.

Editorial A paid spokesman is exactly that.
Voices Brent Cunningham sees the dark spots in transparency, and K.C. Cole urges science editors to dare to be dumb.
Darts & Laurels "America's first evangelical anchorman"; bad deeds brought to light in Seattle, and more. By Gloria Cooper..
State of the Art Graduate students in Iowa school the press on how to cover the gambling industry. By Dan Miner.
Appreciation Jim Carey, the democrat. By Jay Rosen.

Essay In the wake of the Page Six scandal at the New York Post, Robert Love looks back at the sordid history of journalism's blackmailers.
Second Read Robert Lipsyte on Paul Gallico's Farewell to Sport, and the importance of destroying your illusions.
Essay Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn edited by Caroline Moorehead. Reviewed by Lorna Scott Fox. Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair by Anthony Arthur; Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century by Kevin Mattson. Reviewed by Julia M. Klein.
Book ReportsBy James Boylan
Passages Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly by Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer; Public Editor #1 by Daniel Okrent; The One that Got Away: A Memoir by Howell Raines; Watchdogs, Blogs and Wild Hogs: A Collection of Quotations on Media by Gordon S. Jackson.