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Was the ruling too hard on Microsoft? Plus: Is David Duke right about immigration? Housekeepers need jobs, not middle-class guilt.
April 7, 2000
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The media played the Microsoft trial as a judgment on the CEO's personality -- and there was no way he could win.
By Sean Elder
April 5, 2000
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A Wall Street Journal editorialist unloads on Hillary Clinton and shoots herself in the foot.
By Sean Elder
March 24, 2000
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We don't care about Templegate, Horowitz Plus: Huh? Another subscription will make my life simpler? "Subtle energy researcher" says he'll take homeopathy challenge.
March 23, 2000
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It was gay then gender-bending then pure guy. Now, flailing for an identity, it's just gone.
By Sean Elder
March 21, 2000
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As Time Inc.'s latest magazine demonstrates, trying to sell the simple life is a slippery task.
By Sean Elder
March 20, 2000
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The monthly sweeps five National Magazine Award nominations, but its resurrection is still a work in progress.
By Sean Elder
March 16, 2000
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Analysts are comparing the merger of Times Mirror and the Tribune Company to AOL-Time Warner, but the combined company looks more like an industrial age holdout than a 21st century media giant.
By Sean Elder
March 15, 2000
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A master musician with extraordinary staying power, for decades his
evocative vocal style has taken the blues out of the barroom and into the
bedroom.
By Sean Elder
March 14, 2000
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What will the all-news networks do now that the McCain and Bradley dramas are over?
By Sean Elder
March 13, 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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Our media columnist offers a satirical look at campuses presidential candidates
should skip if they want to avoid a Bob Jones University scandal of their own.
By Sean Elder
March 3, 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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Gender is located between the ears, not the legs Plus: I'll be Trey Parker's Oscar date! "Al Gore-leone" is tasteless.
Letters to the editor
February 28, 2000
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Frat boys aren't stupid Plus: Zoetrope zingers par for the course; keep your name, change your religion, but don't blame the Catholic Church.
Letters to the editor
February 25, 2000
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For Rupert Murdoch, being a media mogul means never having to say you're sorry.
By Sean Elder
February 24, 2000
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Modern Humorist wants to win our hearts by mocking the very things we hold dear.
By Sean Elder
February 22, 2000
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As the boys on the bus wept in John McCain's lap Saturday, George W. Bush used an old-fashioned media strategy to secure his South Carolina victory.
By Sean Elder
February 20, 2000
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Don't blame reporters for putting McCain on the map. Like the senator, they are listening to the people.
By Sean Elder
February 16, 2000
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Is onscreen love colorblind? Plus: An unintended message on George W.'s Web site; dog breeding is un-American!
Letters to the editor
February 16, 2000
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If you surf the Web sites of this year's presidential candidates, it's not hard to figure out who has the buzz -- and who's still asleep in the server room. But will it matter come November?
By Sean Elder
February 14, 2000
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The cast of characters in the Diallo trial -- from Rudy's NYPD to the Rev. Al Sharpton -- is priceless, so why does TV drag in Bernhard Goetz?
By Sean Elder
February 9, 2000
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The TV networks obsess over personality while the candidates try to use them to convey some substance.
By Sean Elder
February 3, 2000
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Truth merges with fiction in a new roman à clef about Condé Nast that has New York insiders buzzing.
By Sean Elder
February 2, 2000
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A chain of supermarkets is covering those naughty Cosmo cover lines.
By Sean Elder
January 28, 2000
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