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Plus: Bob Mould plays for Marlboro Miles; contrary to popular e-spam, Darren does not have liver disease.
By Jenn Shreve
September 24, 1999
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The Democrats and Republicans have shamelessly abandoned the poor.
By Arianna Huffington
September 16, 1999
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Bush is glib, none-too-smart and quick to anger, but reporters have yet to tell the truth about him.
By Jerry Politex
September 16, 1999
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A veteran adman says that it's time for ads to go back to doing what they do best: Selling kitty litter.
By Bob Welke
September 2, 1999
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Modern Maturity -- the largest-circulation magazine in America -- gets sexier as the baby boomers realize that 50 isn't old after all.
By Sean Elder
September 1, 1999
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Skeptic magazine should take a cue from its splashier, diametric opposite, Fate. Plus: Jerry Stahl on heroin -- again; yet another writer "discovers" eBay.
By Jenn Shreve
August 27, 1999
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Old Navy and Starbucks and Jamba Juice! Oh my! Plus: Feed looks at the latest trend in computer interfaces.
By Jenn Shreve
August 13, 1999
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Too hot? Lose the swimsuit, say several venerable publications. Plus: Reform Party madness, TV racial quotas and a ridiculous theory on recent violence.
By Jenn Shreve
August 6, 1999
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Technology journalists aren't supposed to own stock in the companies they cover. But to participate in the high-flying tech sector, some are writing a new definition of "conflict of interest."
By Janelle Brown
August 6, 1999
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Two scathing critiques of excessive consumerism. Plus: Need a headline? Try "Eyes Wide Shut"! It worked for Kubrick.
By Jenn Shreve
July 30, 1999
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Left-leaning journalists explore how the other side of prosperity lives. Plus: The "S" and "F" words, Rick Springfield and a tell-all psychic friend.
By Jenn Shreve
July 23, 1999
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The Village Voice pronounces Generation X as dead as Kurt Cobain and as irrelevant as a Cheesy Poof. Plus: Alternative health stories that don't suck.
By Jenn Shreve
July 9, 1999
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Five years ago Thursday, a white Bronco rolled onto an L.A. freeway -- and ran over the barriers between the media and everybody else.
By James Poniewozik
June 17, 1999
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The Village Voice takes Jar Jar theorizing too far; a quasi-national alternative glossy editor's cri de coeur; new theories on love and marriage.
By Jenn Shreve
June 11, 1999
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Journalism big shots are pleading for the attention of one drowsy guy in St. Paul. James Romenesko discusses the power of indie weblogs and how he found the bogus millionaire-dog story.
By James Poniewozik
June 10, 1999
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Columnist Ann Coulter may try to get Connecticut voters to take her home, while broadcaster Pat Buchanan and editor Steve Forbes are running again. But is a media perch really a political asset?
By James Poniewozik
June 6, 1999
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Post-Littleton, post-Jenny, post-"I'm Proud to Be a Prostitute," the media, willing or not, are getting classy. Spare us.
By James Poniewozik
June 3, 1999
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Everything I know I learned from Video Rodeo.
By Sarah Vowell
June 2, 1999
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Hey, Gramps! Want more
TV shows aimed at you? Then stop watching them.
By James Poniewozik
May 27, 1999
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The Georgia shooting is sure to inspire another torrent of clueless media tea-leaf reading.
By James Poniewozik
May 20, 1999
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Daddy Warbucks! The American media wants you ... to run for president.
By James Poniewozik
May 20, 1999
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The L.A. Weekly gets spiritual; poo falls from the sky in Salt Lake City.
By Jenn Shreve
May 7, 1999
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Two new media studies amplify the death cries of the literate overclass.
By James Poniewozik
January 27, 1999
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The career of the great German cultural critic Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a case study in the virtues of intellectual inconsistency.
By James Poniewozik
January 27, 1999
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Two new media studies amplify the death cries of the literate overclass.
By James Poniewozik
January 27, 1999