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During a week of war fever, the news media gave rein to hysteria -- and, critics say, let color-coded terror alerts serve the White House agenda.
By Eric Boehlert
February 15, 2003
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HBO's "Live From Baghdad" is the story of one of live journalism's finest hours -- and a cautionary tale for an increasingly docile press.
By Gary Kamiya
December 7, 2002
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How the press transformed a hard-fought U.N. compromise on Iraq into Bush's miraculous feat of diplomacy.
By Eric Boehlert
November 12, 2002
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The New York Fire Department suffered a communications breakdown on Sept. 11, and hundreds of firefighters died. Why are so many journalists ignoring the story?
By Eric Boehlert
August 20, 2002
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The talk show pioneer's new MSNBC show brings a little decency and tolerance into the rabidly right-wing jungle of cable TV.
By Eric Boehlert
July 18, 2002
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Connie Chung's new talk show, a parade of pedophilia and murder fueled by inane kindergarten-teacher musings, is so flat-out weird it just might acquire a cult following.
By Carina Chocano
July 18, 2002
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Democrats are complaining that cable networks are covering the president's every move as breaking news. The problem is even worse than they think.
By Eric Boehlert
April 18, 2002
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CNN thrilled lefties by hiring Carville and Begala, but the show is too long and too incoherent.
By Eric Boehlert
April 9, 2002
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As television hypes the coming war, the nation watches passively. Stunned by grief, we've shut ourselves up.
By John Leonard
September 21, 2001
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Memo to Jeff Greenfield (and Bill Maher): Irony lives.
By Carina Chocano
September 21, 2001
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For a day the cable news networks converged. Then they went back to their old tricks.
By Bill Wyman
September 13, 2001
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Digging through Gary Condit's tabloid trash and
courting Rush Limbaugh, is the venerable all-news network playing catch-up to the Fox News Channel?
By Eric Boehlert
September 5, 2001
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The new CNN Headline News -- Zingier! Nervous-making! Plus: "The Daily Show's" Mo Rocca goes back to school.
By Carina Chocano
September 5, 2001
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Media author Howard Kurtz says financial journalists are more powerful and morally bereft than Washington's political pundits.
By Alan Deutschman
September 26, 2000
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With blown-out tires and wildfires passing as big stories, news-junkie networks are jonesing.
By Eric Boehlert
September 11, 2000
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By Rebecca Segall
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September 5, 2000
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Inventor Sean Dix wanted to revolutionize the way we get rid of plaque. Now he's in jail for threatening Ted Turner's life.
By Rebecca Segall
August 31, 2000
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The latest battle of images proves that the Elian saga had to be resolved by means of law, not propaganda.
By Joan Walsh
April 22, 2000
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Indiana University's basketball coach is an angry, vulgar, violent creep, but that's not the reason he should resign.
By Eric Boehlert
April 3, 2000
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Having nailed down exit poll data the same way Bush and Gore nailed down their nominations, the network anchors were free to opine smugly on Super Tuesday.
By Sean Elder
March 8, 2000
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The Big 3 networks are giving the candidates about 30 seconds of air time an evening. Hell, most ads are longer than that.
By Sean Elder
February 29, 2000
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In case all that talk about entrance polls and exit polls wasn't enough to get you lathered up, our man probes the inner secrets of TV on the caucuses.
By Sean Elder
January 26, 2000
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Salon's six-month-long investigation into the religious conversion of Jane Fonda reveals it to be part of a CNN/government advertising swap.
By Gary Kamiya
January 14, 2000
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Inside the Time Warner media empire there was a whole lot of smiling going on Monday.
By Sean Elder
January 11, 2000
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Fear drove the two companies into bed with each other. Now it's our turn to be afraid.
By Scott Rosenberg
January 10, 2000
Orange agents
A front-row seat at war
Illusions of victory
Too hot to handle
Phil Donahue's liberal oasis
CNN's breakout comedy hit
In the crossfire: "Crossfire"
CNN: Veering right and aiming low
Turn on the news!
Wall Street schmooze and spin
Love's labors flossed
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald
Broadsheet