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  • Midnight cowboy in the garden of Bush and evil

    The phony journalist in the White House is the most bizarre example yet of the administration's efforts to thwart an independent press.
    By Sidney Blumenthal February 17, 2005

  • Fake news, fake reporter

    Why was a partisan hack, using an alias and with no journalism background, given repeated access to daily White House press briefings?
    By Eric Boehlert February 10, 2005

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    With the administration buying off journalists willy-nilly, this column says in no uncertain terms: Ka-ching! Plus: John Madden and Nicollette's towel. And: Wisconsin's who-cares home winning streak.
    January 26, 2005

  • "The Distance Between Us"

    Caddie has covered the Middle East for years -- but this trip into the Lebanese desert with a driver who never speaks is starting to feel ominous.
    By Masha Hamilton October 22, 2004

  • "And It Don't Stop" edited by Raquel Cepeda

    Does hip-hop journalism live up to the music's most vibrant promise -- or just rehash its crass, Benjamin-istic cliches? A new anthology makes the case for hip-hop writing.
    By Peter L'Official October 13, 2004

  • Not quite enough A.J. Liebling

    The man who brought journalism into the modern age enjoys another revival. But why is some of his best writing buried, while his worst writing is celebrated?
    By Allen Barra September 23, 2004

  • Risky business

    The legal maneuvering to determine which Bush administration officials leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to Bob Novak, Matthew Cooper and other reporters has just begun.
    By Eric Boehlert August 13, 2004

  • Reporters in chains

    Under Homeland Security orders, journalists from England, Sweden, Holland and other friendly countries are being detained at U.S. airports, strip-searched and deported.
    By Robert Schlesinger June 15, 2004

  • Kicking it in Kyrgyzstan ... sort of

    What's an "American" rave like in post-9/11 Central Asia? No Ecstasy, glow sticks or pulsating beats -- but hey, they've got Duran Duran.
    By Elinor Burkett April 1, 2004

  • Joe Conason's Journal

    As the legal protections for journalists' sources begin to crumble, there's fallout across the political spectrum, from the Wen Ho Lee case to the Valerie Plame affair.
    December 19, 2003

  • "Veronica Guerin"

    Cate Blanchett's portrayal of the murdered Irish journalist is a blatant Oscar bid. But Joel Schumacher's crude bio-drama never comes close to asking the real questions.
    By Charles Taylor October 17, 2003

  • "I shall not burn my press and melt my letters"

    Newspaper publishing in the days of Ben Franklin and his grandson was a filthy, grinding business. Fighting for freedom of the press was an even more wretched a task.
    By David Talbot September 2, 2003

  • The forbidden truth about Jayson Blair

    It's the issue nobody at the New York Times wants to discuss: Were a reporter's flagrant abuses overlooked because he's black?
    By Eric Boehlert May 15, 2003

  • Heat-packing journalists

    Thanks to CNN, journalists approaching military checkpoints are now presumed armed -- if not dangerous.
    By Christopher Orlet April 15, 2003

  • Journalism fails its sobriety test

    The release of Diana Ross' drunk-driving videotape, soon to be shown on TV, represents another lurching step in the fourth estate's race to kiss the gutter.
    By Joan Smith January 16, 2003

  • Anatomy of Bob Greene

    The Chicago columnist crusaded on behalf of abused kids. Then he got fired for having sex with a teenage subject.
    By Neil Steinberg September 19, 2002

  • Death of a journalist, battle for the truth

    How did Imad Abu Zahra die? The conflicting accounts offered by Israelis and Palestinians reveal that the propaganda war has become almost as important as the military one.
    By Ferry Biedermann August 2, 2002

  • Can't stand the heat? Get out of the newsroom

    Thin-skinned journalists at CNN, the New Yorker and the Washington Post bristle when colleagues or readers question their work.
    By Eric Boehlert April 11, 2002

  • Jon Ronson

    The author of "Them: Adventures With Extremists" discusses his time with Osama's London cohort, close calls with neo-Nazis and the undeniable humanity of the world's would-be monsters.
    By Joanna Smith Rakoff March 14, 2002

  • Democracy held hostage

    We are fighting for freedom -- including the right to vigorously debate. But the war fever crowd wants us all to march in step.
    By David Talbot September 29, 2001

  • Dan Rather's tears

    Journalists don't cry on camera. That was before last week.
    By Stephanie Zacharek September 18, 2001

  • Gwen Ifill

    The host of PBS's "Washington Week in Review" and correspondent for "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" is a fan of civil conversation, good writing and the Washington Mystics.
    By Robert Margolis December 18, 2000

  • Out of control

    Why have conservative journalists lost it over the perfectly predictable battle in Florida?
    By Eric Boehlert November 30, 2000

  • Serbia's culture shock

    With the media liberated from Milosevic's control, the nation begins to face its demons -- but propagandists and journalists are in a tug of war.
    By Laura Rozen October 31, 2000

  • Covering up the breast

    The National Cancer Institute decides not to publicize the results of a publicly funded implant study. What's the deal?
    By Denise Dowling October 9, 2000
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