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SPECIAL REPORT: The AOL Effect

THE GIANT
How journalists should watch AOL Time Warner. By Frank Houston

KEEP AN EYE ON HIM
Bob Pittman is out front for AOL/TW By Steve Weinberg

STAR SEARCH
The new CNN. By Neil Hickey

MORE GIANTS
If you like deregulation, you'll love Michael Powell's new FCC. By Neil Hickey

 

ARTICLES

THE CHRONICLE CHRONICLES
How two ordinary San Francisco newspapers are becoming one good one. By James Risser

BROTHERS DIVIDED
An editor and a stock analyst on profit pressures. By Brent Cunningham

WAR WOUNDS
why the tough questions for Bob Kerrey came so late. By Christopher Hanson

BEHIND THE RIOTS
In Cinncinnati, a factor that the media missed. By Daniel Lazare

SEEING MEXICO
And not seeing it. By Michael Massing

FIRST PERSON
Lauren janis at the McVeigh execution.

 

VOICES

MARGARET SULLIVAN
Magazines: As Brill's pauses, questions linger.

PRUDENCE CROWTHER
Exactitude: Some corrections you may have missed.

LAWRENCE K. GROSSMAN
Television: Black images on "white" news.

GENEVA OVERHOLSER
Newspapers: Our nose for news fails us when the smell is close to home.

ANDREW KOHUT
The Audience: Balancing news interests.

MADGE KAPLAN
Beats: The real-life education of a health care reporter.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

THE COLUMNIST
By Jeffrey Frank
Reviewed by Eric Alterman

WASHINGTON
By Meg Greenfield
Reviewed by Merrill McLoughlin

BAD NEWS: WHERE THE PRESS GOES WRONG IN THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT
By Robert Shogan
Reviewed by Evan Cornog

BOOK REPORTS
By James Boylan

 

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July/August 2001