CJR Issue 5: September/October 2006

September/October 2006

Failures of Imagination American journalists and the coverage of American torture. By Eric Umansky.
Silvio's Shadow Italy's ex-prime minister forged a new power paradigm, echoed today in America and elsewhere, in which journalism is merely a political weapon. By Alexander Stille.
Copyight Jungle Reporters seem lost in the realm of copyright, where a riot of new restrictions threaten creativity, research, and history. By Siva Vaidhyanathan.
Web Special Feature: Who are the Prisoners at Gitmo Eric Umansky examines the media's coverage of Guantanamo Bay, and why so few reporters have pursued a simple question: Who are the 400 or so prisoners who have been held at Gitmo for up to five years?
Web Special Feature: The Reporter Who Came in From the Cold In Germany it can be difficult to tell a journalist from a spy, as the story of one German reporter shows all too well.. By Mariah Blake.

Editorial Guarding the vote: the press and the lessons of Ohio.
Voices Bree Nordenson takes on the difficulties of depressing stories; Lucia Graves discovers that journalism programs don't know what happens to their graduates; Francis Hamit makes the case for a small-claims court for copyright disputes.
State of the Art Al-Jazeera's new global gamble. By Alia Malek.
Scene The war down the street. By Bassam Haddad.

Essay A rash of new books in English by Persian-language writers offers the West a chance to re-imagine Iran. By Bill Berkeley.
Second Read Robert W. Snyder on J. Anthony Lukas’s Common Ground and the author’s determination to write with empathy.
Review “All Governments Lie”: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone by Myra MacPherson. Reviewed by Anthony Marro.
Passages James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights by Richard Labunski; After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina edited by David Dante Troutt; It’s News to Me: The Making and Unmaking of An Editor by Edward Kosner; The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir by Toby Young; Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life by Linda H. Davis.